Field photographs, 1910-1913.

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Field photographs, 1910-1913.

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Views of Mount Erebus with penguins in foreground, of icebergs, of the landscape of Antarctica and of Robert Falcon Scott, expedition leader and his crew. Photographs were taken by expedition photographer Herbert Ponting, except for a group portrait of the expedition party at the South Pole, taken by Henry Robertson Bowers. The negatives in this collection were copied by Edward Van Altena.

13 photonegatives : b&w.4 photoprints : b&w.2 photoprints : b&w mounted on boards.4 photoprints : b&w mounted on file cards.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6879532

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912

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Van Altena, Edward.

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Bowers, Henry Robertson, 1883-1912

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Henry Robertson Bowers (born 29 July 1883, Greenock, Scotland – c. 29 March 1912, Antarctica, near the South Pole) was one of Robert Falcon Scott's polar party on the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910–1913, all of whom died during their return from the South Pole....

British Antarctic Expedition (1898-1900)

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Ponting, Herbert, 1870-1935

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Herbert George Ponting was born in 1870. He entered banking at the age of eighteen, but left to run a fruit ranch in California. In 1900, he began to cultivate photography and after winning several photographic contests was hired by a stereopticon company to produce views for their machines. He travelled widely in the Far East, South-East Asia and Europe and was a pioneer in the use of the camera as a medium of art rather than a mere recorder of events and persons. By 1910, Ponting ...

Wilson, Edward, 1872-1912

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Edward Adrian Wilson was born in Cheltenham, England on 23 July 1872, second son of a respected Cheltenham medical practitioner. He was educated at Cheltenham College and studied natural science and medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and St. George's Hospital, London. In 1898, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and spent several months convalescing in Norway and Switzerland, giving him the opportunity to hone his skills as a watercolour artist and wildlife illustrator...