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Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D8760/F/LIB/8/1/13 |
Former Reference | D3311/94 |
Title | Photograph, with caption, of carved oak panel showing the Erebus caught in ice, with members of crew hauling a sledge in the foreground |
Date | [mid 20th cent] |
Description | Printed caption by"W.F.R." saying that the panel measured 27 by 16 by inches, it had been found in a shop in Exeter just before the war by Sir Drummond Chaplin, who had left it with W.F.R. while he went out as administrator of Rhodesia, Sir Clements Markham had been sent a photograph of it but had been prevented from seeing by his fatal accident [in 1916], and Markham had been inclined to think it was the work of "Dockyard Maties" rather than the ship's carpenter when in the Antarctic. Mounted on cardboard 22 x 31 cm, image size 12 x 20 cm. |
Extent | 1 item |
Level | Item |
Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
Archive Creator | Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth |
Format | Photographic |
Term | Carving |
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