Item MM 117590 Lantern Slide - Discovery II Explorer Feeding a Penguin, Cape Crozier, Ellsworth Relief Expedition, Antarctica, 1935-1936

Summary

Lantern slide of an explorer from the ship Discovery feeding a penguin, Antarctica.

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

Description of Content

Discovery II explorer feeding a penguin at Cape Crozier, Ross Island. There is a colony of penguins in the background. Vicinity of Mt Terror and Mt Erebus. Photograph taken during the Ellsworth Relief Expedition, 1935-1936.

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.