M0000993: Two pairs of snow goggles from the Captain Nares expedition 1875-1876, on display

Date:
07 August 1930
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/9/48
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M0000993: Two pairs of snow goggles from the Captain Nares expedition 1875-1876, on display. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Snow goggles used by Comr. Markham.

Description

Photograph of two pairs of snow goggles, made of rubber and basket, used by Sir Albert Hastings Markham (1841-1918) during the the 1875-1876 expedition led by Sir George Strong Nares (1831-1915). The items were previously on display in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but are not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

07 August 1930

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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