Reference: P2005/5/468

Title: Bernard Day digging out the snowed up motor tractors. August 1st 1911

Description: glass plate negative;Hand written by Ponting: Aug 1/1911. 314. The snowed up motor cars & Day digging them out.;Hand written in pencil on top of envelope: 314A Dup. Popperfoto label: Scanned V.I.;Box 9: Part of a worn label on outside front edge of lid: No 470A – 564. Hand written inscription in ink, inside lid: Mr. H.G. Ponting, 47 Oxford Mansion, Oxford Circus. Popperfoto label on outside of box: H. Ponting. Captain Scott’s Antarctic Expedition 1911-1912. 254 – 287. Width 8inches, height 7 inches, depth 6 inches. Scratched.

Collection: British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 (Ponting Collection)

Summary text: Day digs with a shovel at snow which covers motor tractors, bundles of caterpillar tracks and boxes.

Date: 8.1911

Keywords: tracked vehicles

Location: Antarctica, Ross Dependency

Photographer: Ponting, Herbert George