Deutsche Sudpolar-Expedition [album], 1901-1903 / photographer unknown
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Deutsche Sudpolar-Expedition [album], 1901-1903 / photographer unknown
Deutsche Sudpolar-Expedition [album], 1901-1903 / photographer unknown
About this item
Full title
Date
1901-1903
Call Numbers
PXE 1641
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 album (82 photographs) - albumen
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Album comprises 82 silver gelatin photographs documenting the Gauss Expedition led by Erich von Dygalski:
1. [Front cover of album]
2. Haifisch oan Deck. Dr. Gazert, Blut zapfend. [Shark on deck. Dr. Gazert draining blood]
3. Albatross
4. Vertikalnetz
5. Haifischuntersuchung [Examining a shark]
6. Deckscene
7. Vertikalnetz<...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Deutsche Sudpolar-Expedition [album], 1901-1903 / photographer unknown
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 1260025
Description source
Titles taken from caption below photograph. English translations of titles taken from bookseller's description.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Douglas Stewart Fine Books, September 2014
Administrative / Biographical history
Following the establishment of a German Commission for South Polar Exploration in 1895, the geographer Erich von Drygalski was appointed to lead a South Polar exploration following a route prepared by scientist Georg von Neumayer. A party of five officers, five scientists and twenty two seamen set sail aboard the Gauss from Kiel on August 11, 1901...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXE 1641
Record Identifier
9gkdgjq9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9gkdgjq9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
1232105
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