Photograph album from the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 / compiled by Frank Debenham
Photograph album from the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 / compiled by Frank Debenham
Photograph album from the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 / compiled by Frank Debenham
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1910-1913
Call Numbers
PXB 757
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 album (87 photographic prints) - 17 x 22 x 3.5 cm - chiefly gelatin silver
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
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Album containing 87 photographic prints of various sizes documenting the activities and natural environment of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913, compiled by Frank Debenham. Photographers include Debenham and Herbert Ponting.
1. Return of the Depot Party [13 April 1911] / Herbert Ponting
2. Capt. Scott’s birthday June 6 1911. A...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Photograph album from the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 / compiled by Frank Debenham
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 1319122
Signature / Inscriptions
Most photographs titled verso, although some titles wholly or partially obscured under adhesive. Titles are in at least three different hands.
Conservation note
Back cover of album is loose; 2 photographs are loose in album
Description source
Photographs titled from inscriptions verso or titles devised by cataloguer. Date and photographer details for many photographs determined by reference to Freeze Frame – Scott Polar Research Institute http://www.freezeframe.ac.uk (accessed 5 March 2015)
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Ann Russell-Cook, December 2014
Exhibited in
- Shot : 400 photographs, 200 photographers, 3 centuries
State Library of New South Wales (October 2023 - October 2024)
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...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXB 757
Record Identifier
nZNvJwJn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nZNvJwJn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
1290455
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