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Title
Photograph album from the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 / compiled by Frank Debenham
Creator
Frank Debenham, 1883-1965
Call number
PXB 757
Level of description
fonds
Date

1910-1913
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
1290455
Physical Description
1 album (87 photographic prints) - chiefly gelatin silver - 17 x 22 x 3.5 cm
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Frank Debenham (1883-1965) was born in Bowral, New South Wales, and studied geology under Sir Edgeworth David at the University of Sydney. In 1910, Captain Robert Falcon Scott selected Debenham and fellow Australian T. Griffith Taylor as additional geologists on the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-1913, which sailed to Antarctica in the ‘Terra Nova’. Debenham made two scientific journeys in the first and second summers to the mountains west of the expedition base at Cape Evans but did not take part in the ill-fated attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole, which claimed the lives of Scott and his four companions on the return journey. Herbert G. Ponting was the official photographer for the expedition but after his departure in February 1912, Debenham took over his role.

Reference:
Australian Dictionary of Biography: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/debenham-frank-9937 (accessed 6 March 2015)
Scope and Content
Album containing 87 photographic prints of various sizes documenting the activities and natural environment of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913, compiled by Frank Debenham. Photographers include Debenham and Herbert Ponting.

1. Return of the Depot Party [13 April 1911] / Herbert Ponting
2. Capt. Scott’s birthday June 6 1911. Atch [Atkinson], Soldier [Oates, standing], Meares, Cherry [-Garrard], Griff [Taylor], [Nelson], Teddie [Evans], The Owner [Scott], Uncle Bill [Wilson], Sunny Jim [Simpson], Birdie [Bowers], Trigger [Gran, standing], Charles [Wright], Self [Debenham], Day / Herbert Ponting
3. Soldier [Oates] at door of stable, reminds me of the old Crusaders [30 August 1911] / Herbert Ponting
4. [L to R] Bob Forde, Maniac [Debenham], Taylor, Gran. Western party just after being rescued by the ship, Feb 15th 1912 / Herbert Ponting
5. [Castle Berg, 17 September 1911] / Herbert Ponting
6. Seals off the end of Cape Evans / Herbert Ponting
7. Misjudged his distance [1911] / Frank Debenham
8. Helter skelter, shrimps in sight [1911] / Frank Debenham
9. Ice pool at Cape Evans
10. Tresor, my treasure [1911] / Herbert Ponting
11. Stareek
12. Stareek
13. “Allo, . . . saw a seal like you before!” [November 1911] / Herbert Ponting
14. [Cherry-Garrard outside hut, 1912] / Frank Debenham
15. [Cape Royds, 1912] / Frank Debenham
16. No-one . . . this is, do you? [Debenham and plane table, August 1911] / Herbert Ponting
17. [Expedition member]
18. [Dogs and sled in front of] Berg in South Bay
19. Emperors
20. Hut at Cape Evans [1912] / Frank Debenham
21. [Back] Archer, Hooper, Nelson, Atch [Atkinson], Cherry-Garrard, Lashley, Crean; [Front] Debenham, Gran, Williamson, Keohane, Wright, Dimitri [1912] / Frank Debenham
22. Camp on Taylor Glacier, Dry Valley
23. Canada Glacier
24. [Expedition member with pack]
25. [Debenham with surveying instrument]
26. Myself opening the box of specimens brought back by the Pole Party. [?] made an awful fuss over it and had along a photographer to take us at various stages of the unpacking. Shall be surprised if you like it, but it’s no use to me.
27. Another one for the scrapbook [4 men in suits]
28. Berg near Granite Harbour
29. Xmas Day 1911 Granite Harbour
30. [Mount England, Granite Harbour]
31. [View of hut]
32. Adelies and Emp
33. [Penguins and dogs]
34. [Emperor penguins, 1911] / Frank Debenham
35. [Expedition member with sled]
36. [Dog team and sled] before South Bay Berg November 1912
37. Dog team
38. [Dog teams]
39. [Dog team]
40. [Dog team in front of mountain]
41. [Ponies and sleds]
42. Grinding rock sections in my cubicle [Debenham, 12 July 1911] / Herbert Ponting
43. Hole in a berg [8 January 1911] / Herbert Ponting
44. Cave in an iceberg [Taylor and Wright, 5 January 1911] / Herbert Ponting
45. Seal hole near Razorback [November 1911] / Herbert Ponting
46. Weddell seal and young [9 November 1911] / Herbert Ponting
47. Breakers on Home Beach [28 February 1911] / Herbert Ponting
48. Breakers on Home Beach [28 February 1911] / Herbert Ponting
48. View to north from Hut (Barne Glacier Pt) [19 December 1911] / Herbert Ponting
50. Soldier [Oates] and Meares [by] flashlight on sea ice [4 June 1911] / Herbert Ponting
51. Cherry[-Garrard] [8 June 1911] / Herbert Ponting
52. Start of the Winter Party. Bowers, Wilson, Cherry-Garrard [June 1911] / Herbert Ponting
52. Winter Party returned. [Bowers, Wilson, Cherry-Garrard, 1 August 1911] / Herbert Ponting
54. Soldier [Oates] and 4 ponies on deck, Chinaman [2nd from right, December 1910] / Herbert Ponting
55. [Oates with ponies in the stable by] flashlight / Herbert Ponting
56. Terra Nova [1912] / Herbert Ponting
57. Arrival at C. Evans last time
58. Capt Scott [8 October 1911] / Herbert Ponting
59. Cave in Berg [Scott and Wright, 28 April 1911] / Herbert Ponting
60. Capt Scott in his cubicle [7 October 1911] / Herbert Ponting (loose photo)
61. Midwinters Night Festivities [22 June 1911] / Herbert Ponting
62. Face of Barne Glacier, 2 miles from Hut [18 September 1911] / Herbert Ponting
63. Accident Berg and Erebus close to Hut [8 October 1911] / Herbert Ponting
64. C. Evans Party Sept 1911, except Ponting and the cook [October 1911] / Herbert Ponting
65. Day on motor in front of Erebus [October 1911] / Herbert Ponting
66. Mt Lister and Mt Rücker from Hut, telephoto [10 February 1911] / Herbert Ponting
67. Sastrugi on the sea ice [21 February 1911] / Herbert Ponting
68. Whaleback over Erebus from Hut [7 March 1911] / Herbert Ponting
69. Frost smoke on open sea below zero [13 March 1911] / Herbert Ponting
70. Sunday in Hut [Debenham, Cherry-Garrard, Bowers, Evans, Taylor, 8 June 1911] / Herbert Ponting
71. Geological cubicle, Den of the Ub-Dugs [Debenham and Taylor, 22 May 1911] / Herbert Ponting
72. Dr Wilson returned from Depot journey [21 April 1911] / Herbert Ponting
73. Ships officers Jim Dennistoun, Cheetham, Rennick, Drake, Williams, Pennell, Bruce, Lillie [1912] / Herbert Ponting
74. Meares on decks on way down [with dogs including] Tzicgane and Tresor [3 January 1911] / Herbert Ponting
75. Adelies at C. Royds [1911] / Frank Debenham
76. Emperors and mules near Razorback Island, 4½ miles from Hut
77. Soldier [Oates, 1911] / Herbert Ponting
78. Me [Debenham] and plane table [9 September 1911] / Herbert Ponting
79. Skua gulls around thaw pool, Ramp and Erebus in the distance [19 December 1911] / Herbert Ponting (loose photo)
80. Seal 2 days old [9 November 1911] / Herbert Ponting
81. Castle Berg by flashlight [4 June 1911] / Herbert Ponting
82. Clouds over Barne Gl[acier, 2 December 1911] / Herbert Ponting
83. Emperor eggs [1911] / Herbert Ponting
84. [Bunks in the hut with Bowers, Cherry-Garrard, Oates, Meares, Atkinson, 9 October 1911] / Herbert Ponting
85. Crean and Taff [Edgar] Evans making sleeping bags [16 May 1911] / Herbert Ponting
86. Crean after return from Southern journey [1912] / Frank Debenham
87. Osman [1912] / Frank Debenham
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Description source

Photographs titled from inscriptions verso or titles devised by cataloguer. Date and photographer details for many photographs determined by reference to Freeze Frame – Scott Polar Research Institute http://www.freezeframe.ac.uk (accessed 5 March 2015)
General note

Digital order no:Album ID : 1319122
Signatures / Inscriptions

Most photographs titled verso, although some titles wholly or partially obscured under adhesive. Titles are in at least three different hands.
Conservation note

Back cover of album is loose; 2 photographs are loose in album
Creator/Author/Artist
Ponting, Herbert, 1870-1935
Name
British Antarctic Expedition (1910-1913)
Terra Nova (Ship)
Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912
Subject
Explorers--Antarctica.
Antarctica--Discovery and exploration--British.
Scientific expeditions--Antarctica.
Topic
explorers
scientists
icebergs
penguins
ponies
dogs
seals (animals)
huts
sleds
glaciers
Place
Antarctica.
Exhibited in

Shot : 400 photographs, 200 photographers, 3 centuries - State Library of New South Wales (October 2023 - October 2024)
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