Photograph on card
Category
Photographs
Date
1875 - 1877
Materials
Cloth, Leather, Paper, Photographic paper, Rexine
Collection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 428862.25
Summary
Photograph NO. 21. LAT. 79° 23 N. IN FRANKLIN PEARCE BAY. ON THE EVENING OF 8TH AUG. 1875. TO THE LEFT OF CAPE HARRISON IS PART OF CAPE VICTORIA. ONE SEASON’S ICE, VERY ROTTON. Black and white albumin photograph mounted on card. Mount has handwritten ‘21’ at top, and ‘London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 110 and 108, Regent Street, and 54, Cheapside.’ printed near bottom. Photograph depicts ship in the distance with large snow-covered headland behind, jutting out from the right-hand side of the photograph. Water is covered with sections of ice. Ship’s chain cuts diagonally across top left-hand corner of photograph.