Photograph on card
Category
Photographs
Date
1875 - 1877
Materials
Cloth, Leather, Paper, Photographic paper, Rexine
Collection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 428862.27
Summary
Photograph NO. 23. LAT. 79° 23’ N. CAPE PRESCOTT, 8TH AUG. 1875. Black and white albumin photograph mounted on card. Mount has handwritten ‘23’ at top, and ‘London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 110 and 108, Regent Street, and 54, Cheapside.’ printed near bottom. Large snow-topped headland in the distance jutting out from the left-hand side of the photograph. Ice covers water in foreground. Three members of ship crew pose for the photo in the middle-distance on a section of ice, holding a large pole.