Photograph on card
Category
Photographs
Date
1875 - 1877
Materials
Cloth, Leather, Paper, Photographic paper, Rexine
Collection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 428862.32
Summary
Photograph NO. 28. LAT. 79° 25’ N. FAST TO THE FLOE UNDER CAPE PRESCOTT, FRANKIN PEARCE BAY, 9TH AUG. 1975. WAITING TO PROCEED NORTH. Black and white albumin photograph mounted on card. Mount has handwritten ‘28’ at top, and ‘London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 110 and 108, Regent Street, and 54, Cheapside.’ printed near bottom. Photo depicts large peaked headland in background. Snow in foreground with two ships, one large and one smaller, in middle distance. Both ship have a string of flags attached to the mizzens and main masts.