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Irrawaddy Flotilla Co. Ltd. photograph album relating to port panorama, company offices and steamers. Contents (plate number): [New Zealand] Littelton Harbour Oct.1877 [large panoramic photograph – linen backed and folded] - Negative number: B1978(B
1870s-1880s
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Indigenous houses built on stilts over the water at Zamboanga, Mindanao. A view across the water to the indigenous houses built on stilts in the water just off the beach at Zamboanga, Mindanao Islands, Philippines. In the forground is a local boat with o
23-26 October 1874
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A view of the ruined church of San Giovanni al Sepolcro at Brindisi.. A view of the ruined church of San Giovanni al Sepolcro at Brindisi. In the foreground is a man and a child. The medieval church has subsequently been rebuilt. The Prince of Wales vi
1875
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A starboard quarter view of 'Alert' (1856) alongside ice under Cape Prescott detained by the ice.. On board HMS 'Alert' Lt. Parr recorded 'we brought up under the lee of an island just outside the bay and made fast to a large floe
9 or 12 August 1875
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Fast to the floe under Cape Prescott, Franklin Pierce Bay. ‘Discovery’ (left) and ‘Alert’ (right) secured to the ice below Cape Prescott. This gave the crews of the two ships time to explore and exercise the dogs with the sledges.
9 or 12 August 1875
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Starboard bow view of 'Alert' (1856), with Berrie, Ice Quartermaster, standing in the foreground behind a walrus which he killed.. On 10 August 1875, Parr wrote: ‘In the afternoon, one of our whaleboats went away to see if they could pick
10 August 1875
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A port stern quarter view of 'Alert' (1856) alongside the ice floe, with the crew cutting an ice dock in Dobbin Bay.. Lt. Parr wrote: ‘we steamed up the bay & cut a dock in the large floe which would shelter us completely. This same do
14 August 1875
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A section of the railway between Colombo and Kandy, Sri Lanka (Ceylon). A view of a section of the incline on the Colombo to Kandy railway, Sri Lanka (Ceylon). This railway connected the coffee plantations to the coast. The photographer is standing on t
Thursday 2 December 1875
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An elephant posing for a photograph with his Mahout. An elephant posing for a photograph with his Mahout ouside an open wooden structure surrounded by trees in Kandy. The photograph was taken when the Prince was on a visit to Sri Lanka (Ceylon) as part o
Thursday 2 December 1875
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A view of the crew of a dog sledge cutting a road in the ice below the cliffs of Cape Rawson. Sledging party rounding Cape Rawson on top of ice foot piled up 30 feet above the level ice against the shore. The ice caused significant problems for the sledgi
Between March and June 1876
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India and back with HRH the Prince of Wales. HMS Serapis 1875-76. Page 1 Ephemera No.1: Invitation to a Welcome Home reception of Prince of Wales in the Guildhall 19 May 1876. The invitation is numbered 4077 and it is a blank example. Page 2. Ephemera No
1876
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Newly formed floe-bergs, showing the old line of floatation. The official report stated that ‘the floe-bergs, at their maximum sizes, were pressed high up one over the other against the steep shore; the chaos outside was something indescribable, and
Between March and June 1876
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View from Mount Cartinel looking southwest towards Bellot Island and and its summit Mount Campbell, Discovery Bay, Lady Franklin Sound (Bay).. Nares wrote: ‘Finding the harbour was suitable in every way for winter quarters, and the abundance of spar
1 to 7 March 1876
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The Lady Franklin Sound Sledge Party prior to departure from Discovery.. Lt. Robert Archer of Discovery led the 12-man sledge Westward Ho to determine the continuity of Grant Land, as well as deciding whether Lady Franklin Strait is a bay, fiord or channe
8 April 1876
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View from the ice of 'Alert' (1856) ashore in Radmore Harbour, Rawlings Bay, at low tide.. This depicts an event when 'Alert' was returning south: ‘[at] the very top of high-water a rather insignificant looking piece of ice press
21 August 1876
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Pacific Station in HMS Triumph. Page 1: ‘Track of HMS Triumph between January and December 1879. Page 2: Photograph 2: Group photograph of Admiral and Officers of HMS Triumph (1870) January 1879. Underneath a list of officers’names with the
1879
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A view from the foreshore looking over to Oamaru Harbour, New Zealand, when completed.. A view from the foreshore below Oamaru looking over the North Mole towards the harbour, breakwater and Cape Wanbrow. The harbour was completed in about 1883 to servic
1883
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The harbour of Oamaru, New Zealand, from Cape Wanbrow.. A view of the harbour at Oamaru from road leading up the side of Cape Wanbrow. On the right is the breakwater and Macandrew Wharf with the rail road used to shift cargoes of frozen meat. In the cen
1883
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Career of Admiral G. H. Bedford, June 1894 to May 1895. Inside front cover of album: presentation book plate of the album to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich by the Bedford family. Page 1: card on which are written the dates the album covers –Jun
1895
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News cuttings relating to Admiral Bedford's career, 1892-4. Page 1 Ephemera 1; newspaper cutting ‘Simons Town Entertainment’.n.d. Account of performance of Black Eyed Susan and attendance of Rear Admiral Bedford and wife. Ephemera 2: prog
1894
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The Career of Admiral F. G. Bedford, covering the period October 1893 to April 1894.. Inside front cover: Admiral Bedford’s bookplate as described in Album 22. Page 1 Photograph 1: ‘Simons Bay’. [General view looking over Simons’
1894
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The early career of Admiral Sir Oliver Backhouse. A half leather bound photograph album with the binding broken, featuring 115 prints of various sizes pasted in to 49 pages in generally fair condition, with manuscript captions. Five prints are loose, the
1900-1904
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The Cruise of H.M.S. "Ophir" 1901 - T.R.H.'s Duke and Duchess of York Cruise in H.M.S. "Ophir" - March to November 1901. A green cloth covered album containing 145 glued b/w photographs of various formats with contemporary pencill
1901
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HMS Scorpion (1863) underway at Bermuda.. A port broadside view of HMS Scorpion (1863), an iron Turret Ship used as a Guard Ship, underway at Bermuda, prior to being used for gunnery practice. The photograph may have been taken from HMS Crescent (1892),
May 1901
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HMS Scorpion (1863) underway at Bermuda.. A starboard bow view of HMS Scorpion (1863), an iron Turret Ship used as a Guard Ship, underway at Bermuda, prior to being used for gunnery practice. The photograph may have been taken from HMS Crescent (1892), a
May 1901
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Service of Lieutenant J. S. Wilde, R.N., on HMS Terrible (1895) during her commission, 1898-1902.. Album (no title page) complied by Lt. James Stuart Wilde. Black lacquer cover with Japanese type decoration, obverse features man and woman with cherry tr
Circa 1902
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Looking down from the balloon across the plateau towards 'Discovery' (1901).. A view from the balloon looking back towards the 'Discovery' (1901), a research ship, alongside the ice shelf in Balloon Bight. The tether of the balloon can
3 February 1902
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The ballloon being filled on the ice.. A view of the cow-gut balloon being inflated with hydrogen on the ice. Ann Savours records that the balloon had been christened 'Eva'. Four men are below the partially lifted and inflated balloon, while the
3 February 1902
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The first sleding party from the ship, led by E H Shackleton. E H Shackleton, Dr Edward Wilson and Mr Hartley Ferrar (the Geologist) in harness to the sledge. The sledge carries their personal flags. The three of them were dressed in Burberry cloth. On th
19 February 1902
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Getting the dogs ready for the southern journey.. A general view across the ice towards the starboard side of the Discovery (1901), partially covered with banked-up snow. In the foreground are men packing sledges or getting some of the dogs ready in harn
2 November 1902
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The furthest south: Lat 85° 17’ South, National Antarctic Expedition.. Dr Wilson and Commander Scott at the camp set up on The Great Ice Barrier (Ross Ice Shelf) where they stopped at their furthest south on the first attempt to reach the South
30 December 1902
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The most southerly land - looking from the Ice Shelf to Antarctica. A view across the broken ice landscape of the Ross Ice Shelf towards the high mountains of Antarctica.
30 December 1902
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E H Shackleton, Captain Scott, and Dr Wilson on their return from the attempt to reach the South Pole, National Antarctic Expedition.. A group photograph of Shackleton, Captain Scott, and Dr Wilson on their return to Discovery from the attempt to reach th
3 February 1903
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National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1903. A cloth covered album containing 48 photographic prints relating to the National Antarctic Expedition between 1901 and 1903 when E. H. Shackleton was sent home. The album is inscribed by Shackleton "With kind
1905
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A dog-sledge team with Erebus in the background. A view across the sea ice, looking north east towards Mount Erebus with a smoke cloud from the crater being wisked away on the wind. In the foreground is a dog-sledge team. The dogs are at rest sitting or l
Sunday 15 January 1911
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Terra Nova (1884) lying off Barne Glacier. A view looking north from the beach at Cape Evans, where the new expedition hut had been erected, looking towards the Barne Glacier in the background. The exploration ship Terra Nova (1884) is lying off. The ship
8 February 1911
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Dardanelles Operations (1915-17). Folder 9 contains the cloth bound album with a broken spine and thirty-two empty pages. The cloth bound album (spine broken) once contained 341 8x6 inch captioned photographs.
1917
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Dardanelles Operations (1915-17). The operations in the Dardanelles (1915-16), principally from the military side, but includes views of Mudros harbour, the beaches and the following vessels, warships - Implacable, Queen Elizabeth, Lord Nelson, Roberts A
1917
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A distant view of the Christmas relief at Wolf Rock Lighthouse. A view from a Trinity House vessel looking towards the Wolf Rock lighthouse. A man is suspended by a foot-loop from the gantry crane either being winched ashore or out to the boat, which can
1944
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The Christmas relief at Wolf Rock Lighthouse. A view from the boat near the landing stage on the Wolf Rock looking up at the lighthouse. A man is suspended by a foot-loop from the gantry crane either being winched ashore or out to the boat. The page cap
1944
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