roaldamundsen@mia.no
Photograph. David Legge Brainard
Object reference: RA 0676
Height: 21.5 cm
Width: 13.7 cm
Materials: paper, glass, wood
Portrait photograph of David Legge Brainard in uniform, inscribed, “To Captain Roald Amundsen from his admirer and friend D.L. Brainard, San Francisco, Cal, March 12th 1908.”
Brainard (1856-1946) was an officer in the United States Army and one of the survivors of the American Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881-1884), led by Adolphus Greely.