IDNO

P.86263.PAT

Description

Photograph taken from the top of the forward mast of the Isbjørn of the prow of the ship.

Physical Condition: Print left part of panoramic series constructed from P.86259.PAT - P.86263.PAT.

Place

N America; Arctic; Greenland; ?Upernavik; ?Upernivik

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thompson

Date

25 August - 7 September 1937

Collection Name

Paterson Collection

Source

Paterson, Erik T.

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Image: Same image mounted in James Wordie’s 1937 album with the number and caption:
“August 25 - September 7.”
“From Jones Sound to Baffin, with investigation of the North-East coasts of Baffin Land.”
“703. M/N Isbjorn. On the deck can be seen, starting from the bows [crossed out ‘front’]; -- the stock-fish; Sigard at the lead; barrels of salmon, salted by the crew (& elsewhere); J. M. Wordie from above - the hat is deceptive; the focsle-hatch; the bear skin, & another skin on the fishing-skiff; the net to get birds from the water, from the motor boat; some hares on the boom; Seachem; telescopes & many other varied & interesting objects & scenes. Taken from the rigging by Leaf, whose boots show in the rat-lines.”
See Related Documents File. [Jocelyne Dudding 6/3/2008]

Bibliographical Reference: J. M. Wordie; H. Carmichael; E. G. Dymond; T. C. Lethbridge, ‘An Expedition to North West Greenland and the Canadian Arctic in 1937’ in The Geographical Journal, Vol. 92, No. 5. (Nov., 1938), pp. 385-418.

Place: In the BFI’s synopses of Wordie’s 1937 film of Greenland, mention is made of footage of the “deck of Isbjorn”. [Reel 2, 183 foot] [Source:
BFI, http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/14564?view=synopsis] [JD 13/2/2007]

P.86084.PAT to P.86583.PAT were found wrapped in the card now numbered C446/1/.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 7/2/2007]