IDNO

P.86274.PAT

Description

An expedition member boarding an outboard motor while holding an inflated test balloon. Two other men (crew members?) stand in the outboard motor and two others watch from the railing of the Isbjørn.

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:
“394. Away for land.”
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]