Photograph on card
Category
Photographs
Date
1875 - 1877
Materials
Cloth, Leather, Paper, Photographic paper, Rexine
Collection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 428862.26
Summary
Photograph NO. 22. LAT. 79° 23’. LOOKING TOWARDS THE HEAD OF FRANKLIN PEARCE BAY, 8TH AUG. 1875. WATER POOLS ON THE FLOE FROZEN OVER. Black and white albumin photograph mounted on card. Mount has handwritten ‘22’ at top, and ‘London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 110 and 108, Regent Street, and 54, Cheapside.’ printed near bottom. Ice covered water in bay is framed in distance by headlands, parted in the centre. The photograph has been taken from the ship’s bow, which is partly visible in the bottom right corner of the photograph. Anchor cable extends across water in centre of photograph.