Researchers Have Uncovered Century-Old Negatives at Scott’s Hut in Antarctica
Antarctic Heritage Trust preservationists working to conserve artifacts at Scott’s Hut in Antarctica recently discovered nearly 100-year-old photographic negatives that depict the Ross Sea party, a component of Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 to 1917. The cellulose nitrate negatives were found clumped together in a box in the hut’s darkroom. Though many of the negatives were damaged, preservationists were able to print 22 images from them.
photos via Antarctic Heritage Trust
E.D.W. Lynch
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