Papers [manuscript].

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Papers [manuscript].

a. Letters by, 1930-1935 to Rev. J. G. Hayes, 1930-1935, concerning chiefly his photography and Antarctic work, with letter to Hayes from C. H. Dickason Feb 1935, and to Dorothy Irving-Bell, 1930-1934, concerning his work on the film of the Scott expedition and the Byrd expedition. b. Other letters, 1933-1967, consisting of a letter from Mrs. Irving-Bell to John Magges, 1967, on the Ponting papers and letters to Mrs. Irving-Bell from Rev. J. G. Hayes, 1933, 1935, J. H. McLeroth, 1935, Ernest Ponting, 1937-1938 and Mrs. Ernest Ponting, 1942, 1948, concerning H. G. Ponting. c. Printed material, 1914-1935 consisting of illustrated catalogue of exhibition of photographs by H. G. Ponting, British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913, catalogue of Royal Photographic Society Exhibition, 1935, which included Ponting material, and British Journal of Photography, Mar 1934, with page from The Sketch, Sep 1933, about Ponting's Distortagraph.

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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 ...