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Historic Image Digitisation Project: British Arctic Air Expedition 1930-31

Explore 20,000 digitised negatives from Franklin to Fiennes. Free educational resource of polar images from 1845-1982. Includes detailed image of Scott feeding dogs from a hut in Greenland in 1930.

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Historic Image Digitisation Project: British Arctic Air Expedition 1930-31

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  1. The Project • JISC funded digitisation project • Two years • Archival & outreach • Web delivery

  2. From Franklin to Fiennes Freeze Frame

  3. Facilitating Access • Conserve • negatives via digitisation • Digitise • and provide images via web delivery • Explore • images via educational packages

  4. Polar images from 1845-1982, Arctic and Antarctic 20,000 negatives scanned Scanned to 400dpi (tiffs) Adjusted with Photoshop, raw archived Available free to use for educational purposes The Resource

  5. Reference: P48/16/193 Title: J. M. Scott feeding dogs from roof Description: glass plate negative Collection: British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930-31 Summary text: Scott stands on roof of wooden Base hut. He holds a piece of bloody meat in outstretched hand over the edge of the roof above a group of dogs who sit looking up at him. Lying on the roof next to Scott are more hunks of meat. A tent is erected on rocky ground in the middle distance. A sledge lies on the ground near the hut. Photograph taken from behind and above Scott. Date: 1930 Keywords: sled dogshuts Location: Greenland Photographer: Cozens, Henry Iliffe

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