Journals

Archival records of the Crocker Land Expedition of 1913-1917 are available in the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library.They are under “Crocker Land Expedition Records” here. The online archive includes the digitized journals of expedition captain, Donald Baxter MacMillan, and his wife, Miriam, as well as expedition geologist, botanist, and ornithologist, Walter Elmer Ekblaw, and zoologist Maurice Cole Tanquary. Digitization was funded by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

Summaries are available for each journal and notebook by Donald B. MacMillanMaurice C. TanquaryWalter E. EkblawFitzhugh F. Green.

The expedition also retrieved or photographed records which were left in the Arctic by past exploration teams. They are tagged records under images.