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Terra Nova expedition

Booklet: single sheet of printed notepaper and 101 pages of photographs, mainly works of EA Wilson removed from unidentified booklet bound together with a metal clip.

1. Copy of Robert Falcon Scott’s final words.

2. Photograph, black and white, of ‘Discovery’ entitled ‘Ship at the end of the winter’.

3. Painting, black and white, of ‘Discovery in ice entitled ‘Wind and drift’.

4. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Depot A’

5. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Crevasse which ended the chasm we crossed in thick weather’.

6. Photograph, black and white, of ‘Discovery’ entitled ‘Ship in balloon inlet’.

7. Photograph, black and white, of men preparing scientific balloon, entitled ‘Ready to go up’.

8. Sketch, black and white, by Edward Wilson entitled, ‘ “Nuntak” of rock near the table ranges’.

9. Sketch, black and white, of iceberg by Edward Wilson entitled, ‘The “Belleisle” Berg.

10. Photograph, black and white, of Adelie penguins and a communications post entitled ‘where news of us was at last found’.

11. Photograph, black and white, of the Discovery in background and the men (possibly meeting the crew of the Morning), entitled ‘The First Greetings’.

12. Sketch, black and white, by Edward Wilson, entitled ‘Down a Crevasse’.

13. Photograph, black of white, of Antarctic landscape, entitled ‘A piece of the Ancient ice-sheet near Cape Crozier’.

14. Photograph, black and white, of Antarctic mountain, entitled ‘The Beacon of the Upper Air Currents’.

15. Photograph, black and white, of the building of Discovery in the shipyard entitled ‘“Discovery “ on stocks – exterior view’. Produced by Valentines of Dundee.

16. Photograph, black and white, of the building of Discovery in the shipyard entitled ‘“Discovery” on stocks – interior view’. Produced by Valentines of Dundee.

17. Sketch, black and white of two men in a snowstorm entitled ‘Caught in a blizzard’.

18. Sketch, black and white, of three men setting up camp entitled, ‘Spring Sledging Camp’.

19. Sketch, black and white, of three men entitled ‘Setting the tent in a blizzard’.

20. Photograph, black and white, of adelie penguins entitled ‘Desperate Hurry –No Time to Talk’.

21. Photograph, black and white, of adelie penguins entitled ‘To gaze at the strange intruder’.

22. Photograph, black and white, of two men sledging past cliff entitled ‘A sweep of the glacier. Sandstone cliff with intruded basalt’.

23. Photograph, black and white, of depot entitled ‘The highest depot (7,500 feet)’.

24. Photograph, black and white, of penguins entitled ‘The Penguins’ Road’.

25. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Cape Wadworth, Coulman Island’.

26. Photograph, black and white, of man (possibly Thomas Hodgson)in the snow entitled ‘Our biologist in his shelter’.

27. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘A hanging Glacier’.

28. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘A Valley from which the ice has receded’.

29. Painting, watercolour, by Edward Wilson entitled ‘Hut Point from Observation Hill’, George Vince’s memorial cross is clearly visible.

30. Painting, watercolour, by Edward Wilson entitled ‘A sunset from Hut Point, April 2nd 1911’.

31. Photograph, sepia, of Lawrence Oates and Cecil Meares at the Blubber-stove in the stables’.

32. Photograph, black and white, of Ponting developing a plate in the dark room.

33. Painting, watercolour, by Edward Wilson of Mount Erebus.

34. Painting, watercolour, by Edward Wilson entitled ‘Looking west from Cape Evans’.

35. Painting, watercolour, by Edward Wilson of two men entitled ‘Exercising the Ponies’.

36. Painting, watercolour, by Edward Wilson entitled ‘The Great Ice Barrier, Looking east from Cape Crozier’. Dated 4th Jan 1911.

37. Painting, watercolour, by Edward Wilson entitled ‘Lunar Corona’.

38. Painting, watercolour, by Edward Wilson entitled ‘Sledging’.

39. Painting, watercolour, by Edward Wilson entitled ‘Henry ‘Birdie’ Bowers reading the thermometer on the ramp, June 6th 1911’.

40. Painting, watercolour, by Edward Wilson entitled ‘Cave in the barrier Cape Crozier 4th Jan 1911’.

41. Painting, watercolour, by Edward Wilson entitled ‘Hut Point Midnight March 27th 1911’.

42. Painting, watercolour, by Edward Wilson of a Paraselene at Cape Evans, dated 15th June 1911.

43. Painting, watercolour, by Edward Wilson entitled ‘An April Sunset from Hut Point, Looking West’.

44. Painting, watercolour, by Edward Wilson entitled ‘Iridescent Clouds: Looking North from Cape Evans’.

45. Painting, watercolour, by Edward Wilson entitled Mount Erebus’. Dated 28th April 1911.

46. Painting, watercolour, by Edward Wilson featuring two figures in the foreground entitled ‘The ramp and the slopes of Erebus’.

47. Photograph, colour reproduced from an autochrome photograph by Herbert G.Ponting entitled ‘An April After Glow’.

48. Painting, colour, showing H.G. Ponting (the official photographer on the Terra Nova Expedition) lecturing on Japan.

49. Photograph, black and white and annotated, showing the crew of the ‘Terra Nova’. (Standing from left to right): Angus McDonald (fireman), William McDonald, William Horton (engine room artificer), William Burton (stoker), Robert Brissenden (stoker), Thomas McGillion (fireman), Frederick Parsons (petty officer), Edward McKenzie (stoker), Anton Omelchanko (Groom), Thomas Clissold (cook), John Hugh Mather (petty officer), Frances Davies (leading shipwright). (Standing on top row): William Heald (petty officer), W.H. Neale (steward), Albert Balson (leading seaman), Mortimer McCarthy. (Sitting left to right): James Skelton, Thomas McLeod, Arthur Bailey (Petty Officer), Robert Forde (Petty Officer), Joseph Leese (Able seaman).

50. Photograph, black and white and annotated, entitled ‘The Main Party at Cape Evans after the winter 1911’. (Standing from left to right): Griffith Taylor (geologist), Apsley Cherry-Garrard (assistant zoologist), Bernard Day (motor engineer), Edward Nelson (biologist), Lieutenant Edward Evans, Lawrence Oates, Edward Atkinson (surgeon), Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Charles Wright (Physicist), Patrick Keohane (petty Officer), Tryggve Gran (ski expert), William Lashly (stoker), F.J. Hooper (steward), Robert Forde (petty officer), Anton Omelchenko (Groom), Dimitri Geroff (dog driver). (Sitting from left to right): Lieutenant Henry Bowers, Cecil Meares (in charge of the dogs), Frank Debenham (geologist), Doctor Edward Wilson (chief of scientific staff and biologist), Doctor George Simpson (meteorologist), Edgar Evans (petty officer), Thomas Crean (petty officer).

51. Photograph, black and white, entitled Petty Officers Crean and Evans exercising their ponies in the winter.

52. Photograph, black and white, Oates and Meares out ski-ing in the night.

53. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘The Polar Party: on the trail’.

54. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘The Hut at Cape Adare’.

55. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘The Northern Party at Cape Adare: (top row left to right) George Abbott (petty officer), Harry Dickason (able seaman), Frank Browning (petty officer). (Bottom row left to right): Raymond Priestley (Geologist), Lieutenant Victor Campbell, G Murray Levick (surgeon).

56. Photograph, black and white, of Lieutenant Henry E. de P. Rennick.

57. Photograph, black and white, of Lieutenant Rennick and a friendly penguin’.

58. Photograph, black and white, of Southern Party 1912 taken by Frank Debenham (geologist). (Standing from left to right): W.W. Archer (chief steward), F.J. Hooper (steward), Edward Nelson (biologist), Edward Atkinson (surgeon), Apsley Cherry- Garrard (assistant zoologist), William Lashly (chief stoker), Thomas Crean (petty officer). (Sitting from left to right): Tryggve Gran (ski expert), Thomas Williamson (petty officer), Patrick Keohane (petty officer), Charles Wright (physicist), Demetri Geroff (dog driver).

59. Photograph, sepia, entitled ‘Dr. Wilson working up the sketch which is given at page 258’.

60. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Dr. Wilson and Lieutenant Bowers reading the ramp thermometer in the winter night, -40o fahr (a flashlight photograph).

61. Photograph, black and white, of the Terra Nova entitled ‘In the pack – a lead opening up’.

62. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Dr. Atkinson’s frost bitten hand’.

63. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Petty Officer Evans binding up Dr. Atkinson’s hand. The marks on Atkinson’s face are frost-bites’.

64. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Bowers, Wilson and Cherry-Garrard about to leave for Cape Crozier’.

65. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Cecil Meares (in charge of the dogs) and Demetri Geroff (dog driver) at the blubber stove in the ‘Discovery’ hut.

66. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Lieutenant Victor Campbell afloat in a kayak’.

67. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘The two kayaks ashore’.

68. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Lieutenant E.R.G.R. Evans surveying with the four inch theodolite which was used to locate the South Pole’.

69. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘H. G. Ponting and one of his cinematograph cameras’.

70. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Christmas Eve (1910) in the pack’.

71. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Pitching the double tent on the summit’.

72. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Whaleback clouds over Mount Erebus’.

73. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Midwinter Day, 1912 The Officers (left to right) Apsley Cherry-Garrard (assistant zoologist), Charles Wright (physicist), Edward Atkinson (surgeon), Edward Nelson(biologist), Tryggve Gran (ski expert).

74. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Midwinter Day, 1912 the Men (left to right) V.W. Archer (Chief Steward), Thomas Williamson (petty officer), Thomas Crean (petty officer), F.J. Hooper (steward), Patrick Keohane (petty officer), Demetri Geroff (dog driver).

75. Photograph, black and white, of one of the expedition dogs entitled ‘Vaida’.

76. Photograph, black and white, of one of the expedition dogs entitled ‘Krisravitsa’.

77. Photograph, black and white, of one of the expedition dogs entitled ‘Stareek’ Malingering.

78. Photograph, black and white, of ‘Finneskos’ fur lined boots used for sledging expeditions .

79. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Ski shoes for use with Finnesko (Devised by Lt.Gran and made by P.O. Evans)’.

80. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Finnesko fitted with the ski-shoes shown above’.

81. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Finnesko with crampons’.

82. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘ice blink over the barrier’.

83. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘The Barrier and Mount Terror’.

84. Photograph, black and white, of penguin sat on a nest entitled ‘This penguin has an industrious mate’.

85. Photograph, black and white, of penguin without a nest entitled ‘This one hasn’t’.

86. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Dr. Wilson sketching on the Beardmore Glacier’.

87. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Preparing sledges for the polar journey (left to right) Thomas Crean (petty officer), Robert Forde (petty officer), William Lashly (chief stoker), Edgar Evans (petty officer).

88. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘The Tenements (left to right) Apsley Cherry-Garrard (assistant zoologist), Henry Bowers (Lieutenant), Lawrence Oates, Cecil Meares (in charge of the dogs), Edward Atkinson (surgeon).

89. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘The depot laying and western parties on their return to Cape Evans. (Left to right) Griffith Taylor (geologist), Charles Wright (physicist), Edward Evans (Lieutenant), Henry Bowers (Lieutenant), Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Frank Debenham (geologist), Tryggve Gran (ski expert), Edgar Evans (petty officer), Thomas Crean (petty officer).

90. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Winter Work (left to right) Frank Debenham (geologist), Apsley Cherry – Garrard (Assistant zoologist), Henry Bowers (Lieutenant), Edward Evans (Lieutenant), Griffith Taylor (Geologist).

91. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘The cloudmaker mountain’.

92. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘The midnight sun in McMurdo Sound’.

93. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘The falling of the Long Polar Night’.

94. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Surveying Party’s tent after a Blizzard’.

95. Photograph, black and white, ‘Highest camp in Antarctica – active crater’.

96. Photograph, black and white, showing three men at the bottom of a mountain entitled ‘South fang, Old Carter’.

97. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Hansen’s grave on Cape Adare’. Nicolai Hanson was the biologist on the Southern Cross expedition. His grave area served as a lookout point during the Terra Nova expedition.

98. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Clearing drift from window of hut at Cape Adare’.

99. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Remains of an explosion crater on Erebus (9000 feet)’.

100. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Erebus Party: December 1912 (left to right top)F.J. Hooper (steward), George Abbott (petty officer), Harry Dickason (bottom) Raymond Priestley (geologist),Tryggve Gran (ski expert).

101. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘The shadow of Mount Erebus on the clouds’.

102. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Mount Erebus over a water-worn iceberg.

103. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Killer whales rising to blow (their blow-holes can be seen)’.

104. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Hut Point and Observation Hill’.

105. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘The tide-crack at Razorback island’.

106. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘A Weddell seal getting on the ice’.

107. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Ice structure’.

108. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Re-cemented crevasse’.

109. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Frank Browning (petty officer) at the igloo door’.

110. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Exterior of Igloo (The dark heap on the left consists of old seal bones and refuse thrown out by the party below)’.

111. Photograph, black and white, of research hut covered in snow entitled ‘The hut after the winter’.

112. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Frank Debenham (geologist), Tryggve Gran (ski expert) and Griffith Taylor (geologist)in their cubicle’.

113. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Edward Nelson (biologist) and his gear’.

114. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Dr. Wilson and pony ‘Nobby’’.

115. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Apsley Cherry-Garrard (assistant zoologist) giving his pony ‘Michael’ a roll in the snow’.

116. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘The summit of Mount Erebus’.

117. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Lieutenant Edward Evans observing an occultation of Jupiter’.

118. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Dr George Simpson (meteorologist)in the hut at the other end of the telephone timing the observation’.

119. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘The Lower Koettlitz Glacier: Most picturesque in appearance, but as a sledging proposition it can only be described as infernal Mount Discovery is visible to the south’.

120. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘The Mouth of Dry Valley showing the Commonwealth Glacier debouching into it from the South New Harbour appears on the right’.

121. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Overland over Cape Roberts to avoid the screw-pack. The sledge has just crossed the tide crack, here twenty feet wide between the sea-ice and the land ice’.

122. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Heavy sledging in new snow off Point Disappointment’.

123. Photograph, black and white, shows man in glacier entitled ‘Pressure ice blocks near Discovery Bluff, due to the thrust of the MacKay Glacier Tongue on the Sea-Ice’.

124. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘The Devil’s punch bowl, an empty cwm in the South-west corner of granite harbour’.

125. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Remarkable cirrus clouds over the Barne Glacier’.

126. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Lieutenant Campbell’s party on their return to Cape Evans: (from left to right) Harry Dickason, George Abbott (petty officer),Frank V. Browning (petty officer), Lieutenant Victor Campbell, Raymond Priestley (geologist), G. Murray Levick (Surgeon)’.

127. Chart, black and white reproduction, entitled ‘A blizzard with gusts dated 23rd July 1911’.

128. Chart, black and white reproduction, entitled ‘A blizzard dated 12th July 1911’.

129. Chart, (x 3) black and white reproduction, entitled ‘Sudden commencements of blizzards, 30th April 1911. 31st May 1911 and 1st September 1911’.

130. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘Pressure on the beardmore below the cloudmaker mountain’.

131. Sketch, black and white, of penguins walking along the ice with mountains in the background.

132. Sketch, black and white, of the back view of seven figures annotated (from top to bottom) P.K (Patrick Keohane, petty officer) B, TO, RFS (Robert Falcon Scott), ACG (Apsley Cherry- Garrard), TO’.

133. Sketch, black and white, entitled ‘Cavan left by Norwegians – SSW from Black Hag Camp, Jan 16th 1912’.

134. Sketch, black and white, of flag entitled ‘Roald Amundsen South Pole mark. Jan 18th 1912’.

135. Sketch, black and white annotated, of Norwegian base tent.

136. Sketch, black and white annotated, of landscape dated 11th Feb 1912.

137. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘panorama from Discovery Bluff, looking north-west up the Mackay Glacier to the Great ice plateau’.

138. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘the top of Mount Suess, looking south. Two figures on the summit give some idea of the stupendous cliffs 2000 feet high’.

139. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘A panorama of Cape Roberts, where the Western Party was isolated for three weeks. Looking north’.

140. Photograph, black and white, entitled ‘The Haystack: Avalanche cliffs on the south side of Granite harbour. Here the Piedmont ice covers a cwm on the left but is discontinuous over the cliffs on the right’.

Number: K.11
Name: Terra Nova expedition
Date: Not Specified
Maker: Not Specified
Location: In Store