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For all you Captain Scott fans out there, Bonhams in London wil be holding a special Polar Sale next Friday (30/3) to mark the centenary of his tragic death. It will include a farewell letter found on Scott's body in November 1912, written on March 16 by the man himself, and expected to sell for £150,000 at auction.
If your pocket is not deep enough, then this lot might be a bit more tempting - an album of 60 photographs by Scott of the Antarctic’s trail-blazing Preston-educated cameraman Herbert Ponting, estimated to sell for between £30,000 and £40,000. Also in the auction will be Ponting’s January 1911 photograph of Scott’s ship, the Terra Nova at the Ice Foot, Cape Evans, for £4,000 and £6,000, while Ponting’s signed image of the crew of the Terra Nova could fetch between £6,000 and £8,000.
You can view the auction catalogue here, and some images here. For me, I think I'll just stick with the catalogue for now ....
Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
National Science and Media Museum
RPS Journal 1853-2012 online and searchable
Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester
Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
British Photography. The Hyman Collection
The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK
The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
Historic England Archive
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group
www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams
www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies
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National Portrait Gallery, London
http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/
Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
Frederick Scott Archer
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