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Description: | Cloth covered album containing 94 photographs (2 missing), with two per page. The photographs are yellow and faded, with contemporary pencilled captions. The album relates to three themes:
a) C. E. Borchgrevink's private British Antarctic Expedition, 1898-1900 in SOUTHERN CROSS.
b) DISCOVERY (1901) Relief Expedition of either 1902-3 or 1903-4 under Captain Colbeck of the MORNING (1871).
c) Topographical views of Colombo, Port Said, the Suez Canal, Las Palmas, Stewart Island, Hobart and Auckland Island.
Note Plate 79: QUITO (1900) loaded with grain for India Famine Relief steaming through the Suez Canal.
See NOTES Field for full list of the plates with descriptions relating to this album | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Subjects: | photograph albums | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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