Sir E. Shackleton – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Sir E. Shackleton in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Sir E. Shackleton
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Ernest Shackleton, the Anglo-Irish polar explorer whose name appears here with the title "Sir," was knighted in 1909 after leading the Nimrod expedition, which came within about 97 miles of the South Pole. The George Grantham Bain Collection came from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news pictures, but the record says this title is unverified, so the identification rests on the caption alone. Shackleton's later Endurance expedition, which ended in 1915 when the ship was crushed in Antarctic pack ice and the crew survived, made him one of the best-known figures of the period.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,334 × 4,872 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25511 |
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