Photograph on card
Category
Photographs
Date
1875 - 1877
Materials
Cloth, Leather, Paper, Photographic paper, Rexine
Collection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 428862.40
Summary
Photograph NO. 36a. LAT. 79° 39’ N. CAPE HILGARD AND THE CLIFFS TO THE N.W. FROM THE DOCK IN DOBBIN BAY. WATER POOLS ON THE FLOE REFROZEN AT THE END OF WARM SEASON. Black and white albumin photograph mounted on card. Mount has handwritten ‘36a’ at top, and ‘London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 110 and 108, Regent Street, and 54, Cheapside.’ printed near bottom. Large peaked headlands can be seen in the background. Ice-covered water in the foreground, with two members of the ship’s crew on the left at the bottom of the photograph. A ship can be seen in the middle distance on the left. The photograph is marked in the bottom left hand corner, partly obscured/indecipherable with ‘14.8.(?)’