Photograph on card
Category
Photographs
Date
1875 - 1877
Materials
Cloth, Leather, Paper, Photographic paper, Rexine
Collection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 428862.47
Summary
Photograph NO. 42. LAT. 79° 36’ N. VIEW FROM CAPE LOUIS NAPOLEON LOOKING TO THE N.E. ALONG THE COAST. 1.30AM., 16TH AUG. 1875. Black and white albumin photograph mounted on card. Mount has handwritten ‘42’ at top, and ‘London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 110 and 108, Regent Street, and 54, Cheapside.’ printed near bottom. Headlands in background jutting out from the left-hand side of the photograph. Ice covered sea in foreground. The photograph has been taken from the deck of the ship; the bow juts out from the bottom left-hand corner of the photograph. Handwritten date in the bottom right-hand corner of photograph reads ‘12/8’ but is partially obscured.