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An album of 83 photographs by James Paton, showing the Nimrod and Aurora, views on board the ships, landscapes, portraits, huskies, sealing, and Antarctic scenes, each approximately 7.2 x 9.6cm., in a contemporary red cloth album, 26 x 21.2cm., with two postcards, one of the Nimrod leaving Lyttleton on her way to Australia, the other of the Terra Nova at anchor. Provenance: James Paton, boatswain on the Aurora (inscription inside front cover 'To Maggie from Cousin Jim, 1.8.09', and small cutting pasted onto inside front cover).
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JAMES PATON -- THE BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1907-1909
An album of 83 photographs by James Paton, showing the Nimrod and Aurora, views on board the ships, landscapes, portraits, huskies, sealing, and Antarctic scenes, each approximately 7.2 x 9.6cm., in a contemporary red cloth album, 26 x 21.2cm., with two postcards, one of the Nimrod leaving Lyttleton on her way to Australia, the other of the Terra Nova at anchor. Provenance: James Paton, boatswain on the Aurora (inscription inside front cover 'To Maggie from Cousin Jim, 1.8.09', and small cutting pasted onto inside front cover).
James Paton, a Glaswegian, served under both Shackleton and Scott. The Aurora was destined for the Ross Sea section of the Antarctic, but it was rather ill-starred, there being disagreements between the men and an unfortunate series of misjudgements by the Shackleton-appointed captain, Mackintosh.
An album of 83 photographs by James Paton, showing the Nimrod and Aurora, views on board the ships, landscapes, portraits, huskies, sealing, and Antarctic scenes, each approximately 7.2 x 9.6cm., in a contemporary red cloth album, 26 x 21.2cm., with two postcards, one of the Nimrod leaving Lyttleton on her way to Australia, the other of the Terra Nova at anchor. Provenance: James Paton, boatswain on the Aurora (inscription inside front cover 'To Maggie from Cousin Jim, 1.8.09', and small cutting pasted onto inside front cover).
James Paton, a Glaswegian, served under both Shackleton and Scott. The Aurora was destined for the Ross Sea section of the Antarctic, but it was rather ill-starred, there being disagreements between the men and an unfortunate series of misjudgements by the Shackleton-appointed captain, Mackintosh.