In the mid-1850s William Bradford began making trips to Labrador in northeastern Canada, an area he would visit regularly in the ensuing decades. There he gathered sketches that he would use during winter months in the studio to create his full-scale paintings.  His most ambitious expedition was in 1869, when he and his crew pushed further north to Greenland and into the Arctic Circle.  Resulting from this trip was a folio-sized book titled The Arctic Regions, which illustrated Bradford’s text with 125 original tipped-in photographs.