Summary

Lantern slide of explorers from the ship Discovery at Mawson's Huts, Antarctica.

One of 328 images in various formats including artworks, photographs, glass negatives and lantern slides.

Description of Content

Four BANZARE explorers - From the left - Captain Kenneth MacKenzie, Sir Douglas Mawson, William Colbeck and Doctor William Wilson Ingram at the back of the 'old hut' (Mawson's Huts) at Cape Denison. They are all holding ice walking sticks. Photograph taken during the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE), Voyage 2.

Physical Description

Standard format lantern slide, consisting of two glass sheets each 3.25 x 3.25 ins (83 x 83mm), one pane bearing a positive transparent image and the other pane protecting the image. Sealed with paper binding strips around the four edges of the lantern slide and internally framed with a black cut-out window mask.

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