Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition album

• Main Author: Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: 1914
• Subjects: Endurance (Ship) > 1910-1920; Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917); Antarctica > Discovery and exploration; Arctic regions > Discovery and exploration; Shackleton; Ernest Henry; Sir; 1874-1922; Yelcho (Ship); Antarctic; Arctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Yelcho; Antarc*; Antarctica; antartic*
• Online Access: http://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/cdm/ref/collection/kis0001/id/2991

A small onlong album with presentation inscription on the front pastedown 'Vistas de la Expedicion de Sir E. Shackleton a la Antartica en 1916, de donde fue rescatada por el Escampavia Yelcho de la Marina de Chile. To Margaret Couch from W. Waril Comandante del Yelcho 1944-1945. Julio 1 de 1948'. Containing 9 photographs (including the Endurance in ice in the Weddell Sea, the wreck of Endurance, and Shackleton's tent at Ocean camp), one studio portrait of Ernest Shackleton, and one postcard of the Yelcho, with inscription 'Yelcho Marina de Chile' on the mount. Contact prints. 3 3/8 x 4 7/8in. Condition: All the photographs have slight fading of blacks and have yellowing and some mostly minor foxing and staining. The boards worn and corners bumped. In fair condition overall.