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The collection consists of 4 albums and 3 mounted photographs.

ITEM 01:
48 photos of shipboard life and duties on the "Quest" and shots of other ships including "Aquitania" and "France". Many photos of crew. Includes shots of St. Helena and one image of Napoleon's house

ITEM 02:
133 photos covering sequences in the Tropics, at Rio de Janeiro, on the way to South Georgia, South Georgia, going south, in "the pack", held up, overboard onto the floe, the scientists at work, the escape from "the pack", frozen in, the break away, escape into open sea, Elephant Island, back in South Georgia, off the coast of South Georgia, a cairn in memory of "The Boss" [i.e. Shackleton], the grave, goodbye to the ice, Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island, en route for Cape Town

ITEM 03:
172 images of the interiors, equipment and crew of the "Quest", as well  as sponsors such as John Quiller Rowett. Includes shots of shipboard life and other vessels encountered in port and on the ocean, such as "Aquitania" and "France". Scenes of a whaling station in South Georgia, icebergs and the "Quest" traversing icy seas, inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha and numerous Antarctic vistas are also captured

ITEM 04:
Antarctic and unidentified Southern landscapes, flora and fauna, including  inhabitants of Southern villages. Also the cairn to Shackleton and mourners at  the gravesite. Group photos of the expedition members and life aboard the "Quest", some in heavy seas. Also included are photos of weather charts and maps of the voyage route, St. Paul Rocks, South Georgia, Larsen Harbour and Gough Island

ITEM 05:
5. [Shackleton's last anchorage]

ITEM 06:
6. [Man surveys a Polar landscape with sled dogs at his side]

ITEM 07:
7. Pyrrhus [ship]

The Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic expedition aboard the "Quest", 1921-1922 / photographed chiefly by George Hubert Wilkins and Alexander Hepburn Macklin

Slides include views in London, South Georgia as well as on board the Quest and in the Antarctic.

Series 07: Cuttings of 35 mm. half frame film from Shackleton-Rowett Expedition, 1921-1922 / J.W.S. Marr

I. Diary, 17 September 1921-13 August 1922. Kept on board the Quest, includes description of progress of ship, the death of Sir Ernest Shackleton, 5 January 1922, contemporary press cuttings and a sketch presumably of the Quest. MS. and printed. II. Letters to, 1907-1910. A. From Captain R. Scott, 12 December 1908-29 January 1910, re Dell's Prospects and affairs. B. From Dr E. A. Wilson, 20 March-20 April 1909. C. From F. Wild, 12 October 1907

James William Dell papers, 1907-1922

1. Shackleton.
Glass negative.  ON 66/1 

2. Shackleton, Wild, Marshall and Adams on Nimrod.
Glass negative.  ON 66/2

3. Man hauling … 
Glass negative.  ON 66/3

4. Shackleton as a major in the army after his return from the Endurance … 
Glass negative.  ON 66/4

5. ... Shackleton on his return from near the Pole.
Glass negative.  ON 66/5

6. ... decking over of the James Caird on Elephant Island … 
Glass negative.  ON 66/6

7 ... Minke or Little piked whale.
Glass negative.  ON 66/7

8. Emperor Penguins ... Weddell Sea …  
Glass negative.  ON 66/8

9-112. No captions - [Shackleton-Rowett Quest expedition.  No. 41. Commander Frank Wild at the Masthead, photo: Dr Macklin ] 
Copy negatives.  NCY 2/762-868

113.  The route to the South Pole …  
Glass negative.  ON 66/113

114.  ... Shackleton?
Glass negative.  ON 66/114

115.  ... Emperor Penguins … 
Glass negative.  ON 66/115

116.  ... men working aloft in sail ….
Glass negative.  ON 66/116

117.  ... appears to be Edgeworth-David, Mawson and ?Murray at the South Magnetic Pole … [Broken glass negative].  ON 66/117

118. ... Edgeworth-David, Mawson and ?Murray at South Magnetic Pole …
Glass negative.  ON 66/118

119. ... Aenaeas Mackintosh who commanded Shackleton’s Aurora in ca. 1916. 
Glass negative.  ON 66/119

120. ... paying our last respects to Shackleton. A party trudging towards the rough cairn …  Glass negative.  ON 66/120

121. ... members of Quest expedition ... paylng their respects at {Shackleton’s] grave … Glass negative. [Broken].  ON 66/121

122. ... cairn to Shackleton ... 1922 ... 
Glass negative. [Broken].   ON 66/122

123. Shackleton ‘s cairn.
Glass negative.  ON 66/123

124-142. No captions [Shackleton-Rowett expedition].
Glass negatives.  ON 66/124-142

143. Shackleton-Rowett Expedition.
Glass negative.  ON 66/143

144-151. No captions. [Shackleton-Rowett expedition]
Glass negative. [Broken].  ON 66/144-151

152. Weddell Sea. Young Emperors about to change to adult plumage?
Film negative.  ON 66/152

153-154. No caption.
Film negatives.  ON 66/153-154

155—173. No caption.
Film negatives.  ON 66/155-173

174. Shackleton-Rowett negative.
Film negative.  ON 66/174

175—190. No captions.
Film negatives.  ON 66/175-190

191—220. In envelope labelled ‘Original negatives [Shackleton] Endurance and British Arctic Expedition 1925’. 
Film negatives.  ON 66/191-220

221—229. No captions.
Glass negatives.  ON 66/221-229

Series 06: Negatives of Shackleton-Rowett expedition, 1921-1922 aboard the Quest, including miscellaneous negatives of Shackleton's other expeditions and of Worsley's Arctic expedition, 1925

1. Photographic portrait of a young Ernest Shackleton / photograph by F. A. Swains
2. `Midnight in the hold of the Endurance in 77 S. Lat',  ca. 1914 - interior view
3. `Shackleton's tent - Shackleton and Hurley in front', ca. 1914 
4. `F. A. Worsley - hauling the boats', ca. 1915
5. `F. A. Worsley - an effort to free the ship', ca. 1915 - shows the Endurance caught in ice
6. `Photo of Shackleton's last ship the Quest under full sail in the Tropics. Taken from French square rigger France in late 1921
7. `...original negative of Shackleton's Quest under full sail in Tropics. Must have been taken from French square rigger France',  1921
8. `Last photo of Shackleton, with Worsley and Wild', ca. Jan 1922.  Negative.
9. `McLeod, A.B., with Endurance and Quest, at his old leader's cairn', ca. 1922; memorial cairn to Sir Ernest Shackleton erected by his comrades.
10-12. `Stenhouse's Aurora after her escape from the pack ice of the Ross where she lost her rudder and had to rig a jury one 3.4.1916'.  Postcards
13. Unidentified photograph of two men. One possibly F.A.Worsley.
14. `The British Arctic Expedition 1925 - the Island (Lady of Airenal [?]) off Spitzbergen outward bound.

1. Photographic portrait of a young Ernest Shackleton

2. Midnight in the hold of the Endurance in 77 S. Lat', ca. 1914 - interior view

3. `Shackleton's tent - Shackleton and Hurley in front', ca. 1914

Series 03: Photographs of the British Trans Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917, led by Ernest Shackleton, together with material of F.A Worsley and the British Arctic Expedition of 1925

Contents list held with collection and in Mitchell Library Reading Room

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The Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic expedition aboard the "Quest", 1921-1922 / photographed chiefly by George Hubert Wilkins and Alexander Hepburn Macklin

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Series 07: Cuttings of 35 mm. half frame film from Shackleton-Rowett Expedition, 1921-1922 / J.W.S. Marr

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James William Dell papers, 1907-1922

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Series 06: Negatives of Shackleton-Rowett expedition, 1921-1922 aboard the Quest, including miscellaneous negatives of Shackleton's other expeditions and of Worsley's Arctic expedition, 1925

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Series 03: Photographs of the British Trans Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917, led by Ernest Shackleton, together with material of F.A Worsley and the British Arctic Expedition of 1925

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Shackleton - Rowett Expedition, 1921-1922

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