Sir E. Shackleton – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Sir E. Shackleton
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This glass negative is catalogued as "Sir E. Shackleton," a title the record flags as unverified and taken from Bain News Service notes, with no date given. The subject is almost certainly Ernest Shackleton, the Anglo-Irish explorer who was knighted in 1909 after leading the Nimrod expedition, which came within about 97 geographic miles of the South Pole. Bain's New York operation made pictures like this for newspaper use, reflecting how closely the press followed polar exploration in the years around the First World War, including Shackleton's Endurance expedition of 1914 to 1917.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,340 × 4,840 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-33201 |
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