Full title: The Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic expedition aboard the "Quest", 1921-1922 / photographed chiefly by George Hubert Wilkins and Alexander Hepburn Macklin

Author/creator: Macklin, A.H. (Alexander Hepburn), 1889-, Wilkins, G. H. (George Hubert), Sir, 1888-1958.

Date: 1921-1922.

Call Numbers: PXD 890

Record Identifier: nmQdXRyn

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Formats: Pictures, Photographs

Contents: 4 albums (473 photographs) - 28 x 40 cm. or smaller - gelatin silver, 3 photographs - 30 x 30 cm. or smaller, on cardboard mounts 42 x 40 cm. or smaller - gelatin silver

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Notes: Attribution of images: Although Bee Mason was appointed photographer and cinematographer to the expedition, he left the Quest at Madeira due to sea sickness. From comparison with the photographs in "Shackleton's Last Voyage-the story of the Quest" by Frank Wild [ML 989.8/W], it is possible to give definite attribution of the photographs in the larger two numbered albums as follows: Sport & General 7 11 12: Topical 10 13 17: Central Press 14 15: George Hubert Wilkins 21 22 23 29 30 37 42 48 50 512 56 61 62 66 67 71 77 82 89 96 97 102 106 115 119 122 126 129 130 131 137 138 140 157 161 167 168 177 197 198 203 212 218 221 225 227 230 231 233 242 245 251 245 246 247 264 277: Alexander Hepbourne Macklin 40 45 52 91 92 104 116 135 139 144 146 147 151 169 173 175 176 178 182: John Lister unnumbered vertical photograph of the Quest after 281: From examination of these images, it is possible to assign most photographs to Wilkins or Macklin by the following : All Macklin's photographs are postcard size 8.3 x 14.0cm. Wilkin's photographs are either larger 10.8 x 15.8cm to 11.6 x 16.0cm or cut down to 7.9 x 10.5cm. The provenance of the albums was given as the Macklin family. Many of the untitled photographs are used with titles in Shackleton's Last Voyage by Frank Wild Reference sources: Shackleton's Last Voyage. The story of the Quest / Commander Frank Wild. New York: Frederick A Stokes Company Publishers, [1923] A history of Antarctica / Stephen Martin. Sydney: State Library of NSW Press, 1996

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