Snowshoes, Lincoln Ellsworth

Objectnumber: RA 0168

Width: 29.0 cm

Height: 150.0 cm

Depth: 2.3 cm
Materials: leather, wood

These snowshoes belonged to the American, Lincoln Ellsworth. They were part of his gear used on the 1926 expedition with the airship Norge.


The snowshoes were manufactured by Abercrombie & Fitch Co. in New York, which was a major supplier of expedition equipment at that time.

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1872
Roald Amundsen born July 16
1880
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1886
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1887 – 1889
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1890
Starting university
1893
Gustava Amundsen (née. Sahlqvist) dies
1893
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1894
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1895
Ship’s Officer’s exam
1896
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1897 – 1899
Belgica expedition
1899
Cycling from Christiania to Paris
1900
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1903 – 1906
Gjøa expedition
1907
Polar bears as draft animals
1908
Amundsen buys Uranienborg
1909
The North Pole reached?
1910 – 1912
Fram expedition
1914
Amundsen becomes a pilot
1916 – 1917
The polar ship Maud is being built
1918
Maud expedition
1922
Nita and Camilla move in
1923
Uranienborg for sale
1924
Amundsen goes bankrupt
1925
To 88 degrees north
1926
Norge expedition
1926
Snowshoes, Lincoln Ellsworth
1927
Lecture tour in Japan
1928
Latham flight
1934 – 1935
Uranienborg becomes a museum
1938
Betty’s house burns down
2015
A chest full of photographs is discovered
2020
Roald Amundsen’s home goes digital