IDNO

P.86272.PAT

Description

High altitude balloon rising into air with support wires attached to the altitude instrument wrapped in protective cellophane and resting on the bottom of an outboard motor. The boat contains the captain? holding the instrument and Derek operating the tiller.

Place

N America; Arctic; Greenland; ?Godhavn; ?Nugssuak Peninsula

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thompson

Date

2 - 5 August

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:
“395 - 398. Picking a Charmichael flight from the sea after a succesful flight & easy landing, between the Ryder Is.”
See Related Documents File. [Jocelyne Dudding 7/3/2008]

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 “preparations for instrument balloon flight”. [Reel 1, 359 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]