George W. Rice (photographer)

George Walter Rice was a Canadianborn photographer who was first to photograph the Arctic region on the illfated American led Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881 to 1884. Rice died in the Arctic onApril 1884 while awaiting the arrival of a relief vessel.

George W. Rice was born onJune 1855, in Baddeck, Nova Scotia to Joseph Frederick Rice and Mary Ann Rice. After attending primary school in Baddeck and secondary school in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, he enrolled in Columbia University Law School in New York but never completed his law degree. He learned the trade of photography from his father who operated a photographic studio in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia and his two uncles who were wellregarded photographers Amos Ingraham Rice had a studio in Nova Scotia and Moses Parker Rice had a studio in Washington, D.C. Rice gained experience as an arctic photographer on the 1880 Howgate Expedition to explore Greenland.

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