This is a penguin's head sticking up through the snow. The bird is sitting on its eggs which are buried over a foot deep under the snow.

This is a penguin's head sticking up through the snow. The bird is sitting on its eggs which are buried over a foot deep under the snow.

Negative

Herbert G. Ponting

Maker
English, 1870–1935

This is a penguin's head sticking up through the snow. The bird is sitting on its eggs which are buried over a foot deep under the snow.

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 1/16 × 1 5/16 in. (12.9 × 3.4 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company
2011.0264.0021
Inscriptions Typed in blue on original envelope, C: This is a penguin's head sticking up \ through the snow. The bird is sitting \ on its eggs which are buried over a \ foot deep under the snow. The nests \ are covered up in a blizzard, but the \ terrible wind that blows all the time \ soon blows the snow away.
Typed in blue on original envelope, TRC: 21.

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