M0000976: Pages from a diary written during the search for the Scott Antartic team, on display

Date:: 06 August 1930

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/9/31

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0000919-M0001064WT/D/1/20/1/9
        M0000976: Pages from a diary written during the search for the Scott Antartic team, on displayWT/D/1/20/1/9/31

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M0000976: Pages from a diary written during the search for the Scott Antartic team, on display. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Diary of search for the Scott Antartic team.

Description

Photograph of pages from a diary belonging to Aspley Cherry-Gerard (1886-1959) during his search for Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) during the Terra Nova Expedition (British Antarctic Expedition) 1910-1913. The diary pages are mounted on a display board with the caption "My Diary of the Search Party. A. C-G" and were exhibited by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. The item was part of a polar exhibition held in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum's central hall in July 1930.

Publication/Creation

06 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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Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

Subjects

Discovery and exploration

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