Posted on 01/01/2014 12:12:45 AM PST by GonzoII
Conservators restoring an Antarctic exploration hut recently made a remarkable discovery: a small box of 22 exposed but unprocessed photographic negatives, frozen in a solid block of ice for nearly one hundred years.
These negatives were meticulously processed and restored by a Wellington photography conservator. Antarctic Heritage Trust executive director Nigel Watson said of these never-before-seen images:
"It's the first example that I'm aware of, of undeveloped negatives from a century ago from the Antarctic heroic era. There's a paucity of images from that expedition."
The team from the Antarctic Heritage Trust (NZ) discovered the box in a corner of one of the many supply depots Robert Falcon Scott established for his doomed Terre Nova Expedition to the South Pole (1910-1913). Though Scott reached the Pole, he and his party died of starvation and the extreme cold on their return trip.
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Could digital survive that?
Thanks for posting.
Always fun to glimpse history in a lost photograph.
Their ship appears to be wind powered, which is kind of surprising right before World War I.
I can’t imagine how anyone survived unless they fished in the summer and had penguins in the colder weather.
Could digital survive that?
Hmm, that is a very good question...
There’s 3 or 4 sealed lead cases with negatives (glass plates) from Shakeltons expedition on the sea floor somewhere down there, they would be cool to find.
Ahhh...some D-76 and it’ll be done right.
Good additional info on the expedition here:
http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/Robert%20Falcon%20Scott2.htm
Penguins are good. Without potatoes they are flat.
No problem.
Push of the button and digital is on the WWW - from there on out it is immortal and cannot be totally erased.
Ping.
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