Expedition photographs
Evans and Crean dressed for sledging
Historical recordCataloged expedition photograph: Evans and Crean, wearing full sledging outfits, stand by a loaded sledge.
What this record establishes
Institutional record documented; does not authenticate interpretations.
Record details
- Original title
- Petty Officer Evans and Crean
- Artifact date
- 4.1911
- Creator
- Ponting, Herbert George
- Holding institution
- Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Scope of evidence
The record establishes artifact provenance, not modern speculative Antarctic claims.
Related expedition photograph—not the catalogued exposure. Petty officers Crean and Evans mending sleeping bags. Same named pair on the expedition; indoors mending sleeping bags, not the catalogued outdoor portrait.
Herbert G. Ponting, The Great White South, 1922 New York edition; Wellesley College Library scan via Internet Archive.
Authentic independent public-domain book scan. Original print/scan softness and paper tint retained; no generated detail. Keep the distinction from the catalogued exposure visible on the card and supporting image.
Image source record · Reuse terms
Image rights and evidence limits
Public-domain 1922 book reproduction. LOC edition record confirms the work is public domain/free reuse; actual scan supplied by Wellesley College Library via Internet Archive, not LOC or SPRI.
Image existence does not prove a linked claim. Consult image-specific captions and reuse conditions.
Sources and what they support
Links document the record, the claim’s circulation, an assessment, or reuse terms as labeled. A source link is not automatically corroboration.
- image reproduction provenance; not proof of a linked interpretationhttps://archive.org/details/greatwhitesouthb00pont
- image reuse conditionshttps://www.loc.gov/item/23026514/
- institutional or documentary recordhttps://www.freezeframe.ac.uk/collection/photos-british-antarctic-expedition-1910-13-ponting-collection/p2005-5-383
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