Photographs of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913, with associated papers / compiled by Fra...
Photographs of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913, with associated papers / compiled by Frank Debenham
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1910-1913
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MLMSS 10037
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0.03 metres of textual and graphic material (1 folder)
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Fonds
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Out of copyright : Created before 1955 - applies to photographs
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39 photographic prints of various sizes taken on the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913. Some annotated on reverse. Taken by expedition photographers, Herbert Ponting and Frank Debenham.
Typewritten poem on five pages, ‘The Southern Pole: a fragment’, with a handwritten notation attributing authorship to Frank Debenham.
Four New Zealand...
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Photographs of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913, with associated papers / compiled by Frank Debenham
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Object History
The material belonged to Muriel Crozier-Durham, a friend of Frank Debenham, who received the material from him. Crozier-Durham was a friend of the donor’s family.
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Ann Russell-Cook, 2016
Administrative / Biographical history
Frank Debenham (1883-1965) was born in Bowral, New South Wales, and studied geology under Sir Edgeworth David at the University of Sydney. In 1910, Captain Robert Falcon Scott selected Debenham and fellow Australian T. Griffith Taylor as additional geologists on the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-1913, which sailed to Antarctica in the ‘Terra...
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MLMSS 10037
Record Identifier
1LjGZVa9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1LjGZVa9
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1001691
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