Expedition photographs
Meares and Capt Oates at the blubber stove cooking food for the dogs
Historical recordCataloged expedition photograph: In the interior of the stable, Meares, smoking a pipe, and Oates sit on sacks in front of a stove on which stands a big metal pot and a kettle.
What this record establishes
Institutional record documented; does not authenticate interpretations.
Record details
- Artifact date
- 5.1911
- 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.
Meares and Oates at the blubber stove. Public-domain 1922 book reproduction. Book reproduces a narrow crop of the exposure, omitting much of the stove at right.
Herbert G. Ponting, The Great White South, 1922 New York edition; Wellesley College Library scan via Internet Archive.
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/p2005-5-421
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