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Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) and Henry Robertson Bowers (1883-1912), Photographers

British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13 -- the Southern Journey

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Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) and Henry Robertson Bowers (1883-1912), Photographers
British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13 -- the Southern Journey
eight photographs, including one panorama (on two prints, unjoined) by Scott showing Wilson sketching on the Beardmore Glacier, two of camps on the Beardmore Glacier by Scott, three of camps on the Beardmore Glacier and on the Plateau by Bowers, and one of the sledging party on the trail
contact prints
3 x 3 7/8in. (7.6 x 9.8cm.) and similar

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Lot Essay

A RARE SET OF VINTAGE PRINTS OF SCOTT AND BOWERS' PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ON THE SOUTHERN JOURNEY. Wright's First Supporting Party returned the films to Ponting at Cape Evans (see notes to lots 131 and 133), and Wright used these images to supplement his own in his Physiography of the Beardmore Glacier.

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