Both scrapbooks in this collection mainly consist of newspaper clippings from the
New York Herald.
The scrapbook on Arctic exploration contains clippings pertaining to the geography of
the North Pole and expeditions to that region, including those of explorers Isaac I.
Hayes, Allen Young, John Franklin, Adolf E. Nordenskiöld, and Frederick
Schwatka.
The scrapbook on exploration in Africa largely focuses on the movements of Henry M.
Stanley and Emin Pasha in East Africa.
