Lot Essay
The Nimrod expedition took ten cameras, including one for movie film, and a variety of expedition members, including J. Murray and assistant geologist Sir Philip Brocklehurst acted as photographers.
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Winter Quarters; Preparing for Southern Sledge Journey; The Side of the Ferrar Glacier, Western Mountains; D. Armytage & R. Priestley at Butter Point
Details
British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909
Winter Quarters; Preparing for Southern Sledge Journey; The Side of the Ferrar Glacier, Western Mountains; D. Armytage & R. Priestley at Butter Point
titled on the mounts
gelatin silver prints
15 1/8 x 24 1/8in. (39 x 61.5cm.) and similar
[And:]
Digging to ascertain the depth of snow covering a depot left by the Discovery Expedition
silver bromide photograph, unframed
11 5/8 x 9 1/8in. (29.5 x 23.1cm.)
5 (5)
Winter Quarters; Preparing for Southern Sledge Journey; The Side of the Ferrar Glacier, Western Mountains; D. Armytage & R. Priestley at Butter Point
titled on the mounts
gelatin silver prints
15 1/8 x 24 1/8in. (39 x 61.5cm.) and similar
[And:]
Digging to ascertain the depth of snow covering a depot left by the Discovery Expedition
silver bromide photograph, unframed
11 5/8 x 9 1/8in. (29.5 x 23.1cm.)
5 (5)
Literature
E.H. Shackleton, The Heart of the Antarctic, 1909, II, illustrated facing page 56.
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