Expedition photographs
Expedition members in Terra Nova’s wardroom
Historical recordCataloged expedition photograph: Expedition members sit and stand around a table in the wardroom of the ship ‘Terra Nova’. Some write, some read, a few smoke pipes. Mugs, teapots and jugs stand on the table.
What this record establishes
Institutional record documented; does not authenticate interpretations.
Record details
- Original title
- Group in Wardroom of Terra Nova.
- Artifact date
- 12.1910
- 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.
Officers and scientists in the wardroom. Public-domain 1922 book reproduction. Book reproduction crops the sides of the original exposure; two rightmost standing members and peripheral table details are omitted.
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/p2005-5-76
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