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Title
Photograph album of the Scott expedition to Antarctica, 1910-1913 / annotated by T. Griffith Taylor
Creator
Thomas Griffith Taylor, 1880-1963
Call number
PXA 157
Level of description
fonds
Date

1910-1913
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
862189
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
101 photographs - various sizes - black & white
Scope and Content
Title page. 'To my dear mother from Grif.' 16/11/1913. Emmanuel College Cambridge. Presented to Ian Thiering 16.12.71 in hopes that this book may help to keep alive the spirit of adventure in the coming generation.' Griffith Taylor
1. The midnight sun over the Ross Sea December 1910
2. The Terra Nova off Cape Evans with capsizing Berg. January 1910
3a. Teddy Evans in the Crow's Nest
3b. Furling sail on the foremast. In the Pack. December 1910
4a. Retrieving Penguins in the Pram. In the Pack. December 1910
4b. Nelson & Priestly cutting a hole for sounding in the Pack. 1910
5. Icing ship in the Pack. December 1910
6. Mount Erebus, showing Fang of Lower Crater from the West. January 1911
7. The Tunnel Berg (G.T.) up which we climbed. January 1911
8. A crevasse in the face of the Glacier near Twi Head. Atkinson (Scott ?) and Wright on the Sea ice. Tent Island in the distance
9. Summer. Frozen surf on the Blizzard-swept ice foot. Gully Bay South East of Cape Evans. Tent Island and Inaccessible Island
10. Cape Royds Rookery showing Tabular Berg
11. The owner writing his journal in the Hut. Portraits of Lady Scott, Russian novels etcetera
12. Scott's Birthday in the Hut. June 6th. Note the flags
13. Bill, drawing Aurora in the Hut. Winter 1911
14. Evans plotting charts in the Hut. Winter 1911
15. Dr. Atkinson and his Bacteria
16. Ponting lectures on Japan
17. Simpson filling standard cells in Hut
18. Pointing in his darkroom
19. Evans getting time on the Stars in Midwinter
20. C. S.Wright getting time for Pendulum Work in Midwinter
21. The Geologists cubicle
22. In our cubicle. Debenham making sections (on my chest)
23. Erebus from Hut Point. Small craters in foreground
24. Observation Hill and the Gap Hut Point. Gran and Keohane
25. At work in the Hut. Midwinter 1911. Debenham (Mills map) Cherry (S.P.T.) Bowers & Evans (routes G. T. Diary and Meteorological logs)
26. Rescue of the Western Party. On the Terra Nova February 15, 1912
27. Clisshold cooking in the hut. Our Art Gallery (i.e. pictures on tins)
28. Crean and Evans ( P.O.) sewing sleeping bags in the Messdeck portion of the Hut
29. Anton (Russian Groom) at the Blubber Stove in the Stables
30. Lillie and Levick examining sponges on Terra Nova Poop
31. The Sledge Ration for Pole. One man one day
32. Fur Finnesko in spiked Crampons for winter glacier work
33. Scott starting for depot. January 1911 Near Glacier Tongue
34. Uncle Bill and his Poney [sic]
35. Ford with a Sea Leopard Winter 1911
36. Skua Gulls
37a. Wright off to catch Ice Crystals
37b. Simpson coming out of the Magnetic Grotto
38a. Crisararitza (now at Cheery's)
38b. Penguin singing a love song
39. Setting sun
40a. A Chanty [sic] at the Pumps. Bowers, Cherry, Bruce, Day [and] Drake
40b. Day and Lashley with their motor sledge
41a. From Main top looking at Evans on bridge. Pack Ice. December 1910.
41b. Ski-ing on Pack from Main top December 1910
42a. Icing ship December 1910
42b. First ice seen. Bulwarks broken by storm. December 2nd, 1910
43a. Landing Stores. January 6, 1911
43b. Building the Hut Cape Evans. January 1911
44a. Landing stores in January 1911
44b. Ship aground off Cape Evans. January 1911
45a. Finishing the Hut January 20, 1911
45b. Magnetic hut. Magnetic grotto & cold storage grotto
46a. Ice breaking away Cape Evans. January 24, 1911
46b. Berg advancing on ship's berth. January 20, 1911
47a. Off Glacier Tongue. January 26, 1911
47b Tunnel Berg (on right) taken from ship off Cape Evans. January 26, 1911
48a. Front of Glacier Tongue. January 25, 1911
48b. The ice foot and the Ramp January 1911
49a. Discovery hut. Deb out of window. January 25, 1911
49b. Inaccessible Island. Shear Crack off Cape Evans. Gran cutting passage November 1911
50a. Bowers, Bill and Cherry exercise ponies. October 1911
50b. Motor party starts October 1911. Ponting " ponting ''
51a. From Tent Island looking north to Cape Evans. Inaccessible Island to North West.
51b. Bertram on Ramp looking west
52a. Fish Trap off Cape Evans. First photo taken with sun. August 23, 1911
52b. Brash Ice off Butter Point. January 27, 1911
53a. South side of snout of Taylor Glacier. February 1, 1911
53b. Lateral Gully west end of the Kukris. February 2, 1911
53c. Crater above snout of Taylor Glacier. February 8, 1911
54a. Cathedral Rocks. February 11, 1911
54b. Tumbles in the Koettlitz Glacier. February 20, 1911
54c. Lower Koettlitz Ice falls. February 20, 1911
55a. Piecrust Ice Koettlitz. February 20, 1911
55b. Sledge Trials Lower Koettlitz Glacier. February 20, 1911
55c. Alph River Koettlitz. February 27, 1911
55d. Milers Glacier. March 1911
56a. Top of Terminus Mount looking North West. March 1, 1911
56b. Fossil Sponges near Dailey Isles. March 6, 1911
57a. Coulou cliffs & Ice Tongue 29/11/1911
57b. Deb. & sledge near Cuff Cape. 20/12/1911
57c. Polished Parament [?] 2/01/1912
58a. Photo west Epitome of Physi [?] Mackay Tongue
58b. Peg Top Nunatak & Upper Mackay
58c. Gondola Mount & Ridge
58d. The start of Mackay Glacier
59. Men on T[erra] N[ova] March, 1912
59a. [Unidentified]
59b. Anton & his Balalyka
59c. Bruce [ & ] Rennick
60a. Drake
60b. Lillie
60c. Williams
61a. Simpson
61b. Ponting
61c. Bernard with Capstan
62a. Chatham, Williams, Bruce, Simpson, Rennick, Mears, G.T. and Denniston
62b. Chatham, Williams, Bruce, Simpson, Rennick, Mears, G.T. and Denniston
62c. Home agian Akaroa 02/04/1912
62d. A very ' Ordinary Seaman ': [Griffith-Taylor]
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

Microfilm : MAV/FM3/892
Digital order no:Album ID : 949968
Signatures / Inscriptions

The album is dedicated 'To my dear mother from Grif' 1913, and inscribed 'Presented to Ian Thiering 16.12.71 ... [by] Griffith Taylor'
Attributions / conjectures

Photographs by Herbert G. Ponting compared with 'The Great South ... life of the Antarctic / by Herbert G. Ponting [1921]
Date note

Fifty-two of the photographs are dated and all are titled.
Creator/Author/Artist
Ponting, Herbert, 1870-1935
Name
Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912
Subject
British Antarctic Expedition, (1910-1913)
Photography--Antarctica .
Adult Males
Topic
portraits
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