Herbert Ponting and Henry Bowers | Eighteen photographs of the British Antarctic "Terra Nova" Expedition, 1910-13

Herbert Ponting and Henry Bowers

Twenty photographs of the British Antarctic "Terra Nova" Expedition, 1910-13

20 vintage silver prints (each approximately 190 x 240mm., or the reverse), 18 by Ponting and 2 by Bowers, unmounted, each with a Paul Popper Photographic Agency label on the reverse

A FINE COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. All the photographs were taken on Captain Scott's 1910-13 "Terra Nova" expedition to the South Pole. Eighteen of the photographs were taken by the official expedition photographer Herbert Ponting, and two by Lieut. Henry R. Bowers en route to and at the South Pole.

The photographs are captioned as follows:

Dr Wilson

Capt. Oates

Lieut. Bowers

Petty Officer Evans

The Terra Nova icebound

A Grotto in an Iceberg

Adelie Penguins at Cape Royds

The Ramparts of Mount Erebus

The Freezing of the Sea

Dog Team Resting by an Iceberg

The deck of Terra Nova

The Tenements

Capt. Scott's Last Birthday Dinner

Drifting Icebergs off Cape Royds

Seals basking on pancake ice

An iceberg in midsummer

The castle berg

The Five at the South Pole (by Bowers)

The Polar Party on the Trail (by Bowers)

The Last Rest