Photograph on card
Category
Photographs
Date
1875 - 1877
Materials
Cloth, Leather, Paper, Photographic paper, Rexine
Collection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 428862.30
Summary
Photograph NO. 26. LAT. 79° 25’ N. FAST TO THE FLOE UNDER CAPE PRESCOTT, FRANKLIN PEARCE BAY, 9TH AUG. 1975. HAVING ARRIVED AT THE NORTH END OF WATER CHANNEL. Black and white albumin photograph mounted on card. Mount has handwritten ‘26’ at top, and ‘London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 110 and 108, Regent Street, and 54, Cheapside.’ printed near bottom. Ship on water in the centre of the photograph with a large headland in the distance. Pieces of ice float in the distance and large section of ice juts out from the right-hand side of the photograph. Reflections of ship’s foremast, main mast and mizzen and headland can be seen in the water.