Watering the ship--digging up ice to melt in tanks. That is the way we get water.

Watering the ship--digging up ice to melt in tanks. That is the way we get water.

Negative

Herbert G. Ponting

Maker
English, 1870–1935

Watering the ship--digging up ice to melt in tanks. That is the way we get water.

From Robert Falcon Scott to Antarctica 1910-1912


1910–1912
Gelatin silver negative
Image (each frame): 11/16 × 15/16 in. (1.8 × 2.4 cm)
Overall (strip): 5 1/4 × 1 5/16 in. (13.3 × 3.4 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company
2011.0264.0018
Inscriptions Typed in blue on original envelope, C: Watering the ship--digging up ice \ to melt in tanks. That is the way we \ get water.
Inscribed in pencil on original envelope, TRC: 18

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