M0000973: Two pages from Ernest Shackleton's diary from the Discovery Expedition

Date:
06 August 1930
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/9/28
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M0000973: Two pages from Ernest Shackleton's diary from the <i>Discovery</i> Expedition. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Diary of Shackleton, South with Scott.

Description

Photograph of two pages from the diary of Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922), written during the British Antarctic Expedition (Discovery Expedition) of 1901-1904. The diary is not held by Wellcome Collection. It was part of a polar exhibition held in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum's central hall in July 1930.

Publication/Creation

06 August 1930

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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