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The first hot food after five days in the boats 15 - 15 Apr 1916
Silver bromide print | 12.8 x 20.3 cm (image) | RCIN 2580106
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Photograph showing eight men standing around a stove, drinking from mugs and tankards. From left to right are: J Ord Lees [engineer]; J Wordie [geologist]; R Clark [biologist]; L Richardson [chief engineer]; L Greenstreet [chief officer]; Howe; Ernest Shackleton; Bakewell; A Kerr [2nd engineer] and Frank Wild Since leaving South Georgia in December 1915, the crew of the 'Endurance' had just endured six days in open boats without adequate food, water or shelter and Elephant Island-though one of the starkest, most rugged and inhospitable islands in the South Atlantic-was a godsend.
Provenance
Presented to King George V by Sir Ernest Shackleton, 1917
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Medium and techniques
Silver bromide print
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12.8 x 20.3 cm (image)
29.2 x 37.7 cm (page dimensions)
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The First hot food after five days in the boats. [Photographs of scenes and incidents in connection with the happenings to the Weddell Sea Party, 1914, 1915, 1916].