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100-Year-Old Box of Negatives Discovered by Conservators in Antarctica
PETAPIXEL ^ | DEC 27,2013 | DL CADE

Posted on 12/27/2013 6:38:42 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER

Almost one hundred years after a group of explorers set out across the frozen landscape of Antarctica to set up supply depots for famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, a box of 22 never-before-seen exposed but unprocessed negatives taken by the group’s photographer has been unearthed in one of those shacks, preserved in a block of ice.

(Excerpt) Read more at petapixel.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: antarctic; antarctica; ernestshackleton; godsgravesglyphs; history; photo
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Finally SEÑOR RIVERA WE FIND OUT WHAT WAS REALLY IN THAT SAFE....AND NO THANKS TO YOU! AEEEEEEE....CHIHUAHUA....!


41 posted on 12/27/2013 7:49:35 PM PST by jimsin
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To: thecodont

It is indeed, an excellent account!


42 posted on 12/27/2013 8:40:12 PM PST by skeptoid (The road to serfdom is being paved by RINO's, and Lisa Murkowski is their mascot.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

What a find! Amazing they were able to retrieve the images after so long, and from such a condition.


43 posted on 12/27/2013 8:41:39 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?
No. There it is; Scott and Amundsen.

Yep. Amundsen was the first to reach the South Pole. Scott died on the way back from the Pole, after realizing he'd lost the race. When Amundsen was informed Scott had died, he realized that no one would remember HIM, they'd only remember Scott's fatal attempt. Sadly, he was right; no one made a major motion picture about him getting to the Pole first.

44 posted on 12/27/2013 8:47:00 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Mastador1

FYI....it’s customary to put quotes around comments by others (or italicize them) when re-posting them in a new comment.


45 posted on 12/27/2013 10:27:49 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

http://www.nzaht.org/AHT/antarctic-photos/


46 posted on 12/27/2013 11:22:15 PM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?

It was called The Last Place on Earth - the race between Scott & Amundsen. It’s available on DVD. Wonderful, if revisionary, look at Scott of the Antarctic.


47 posted on 12/28/2013 3:24:40 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: yarddog

I would imagine these were glass negatives.


48 posted on 12/28/2013 5:21:03 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: Revolting cat!
No negatives 100 years from now from your smarttelephones, folks! Prepare to be completely forgotten and lost to history of Western Civilization!

No worries - the NSA will have a copy! ; p

49 posted on 12/28/2013 6:05:16 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Revolting cat!

Yup.

When the global network of computers crashes (and there is no reason to assume it can’t) a LOT of data will be lost forever.


50 posted on 12/28/2013 7:44:44 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Revolting cat!

That guy must be rich

Water is cold, too


51 posted on 12/28/2013 11:45:58 AM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Obviously they're negatives, it never gets above zero. /rimshot

Thanks Swampsniper.

52 posted on 12/28/2013 5:52:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
Box of Negatives Discovered by Conservators in Antarctica

What are conservatives doing in Antarctica? They don't belong there and need to leave!


53 posted on 12/28/2013 6:03:39 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Revolting cat!

Watch out where the huskies go and don’t you eat that yellow snow!


54 posted on 12/28/2013 8:21:57 PM PST by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: SunkenCiv

At the source article, there is a link to a short gallery of the photos they recovered. Most are photos of snow, the sea, and a few headlands. A couple photos with explorers on them.

I suppose you could compare them to photos taken by the Martian rovers of bleak Martian landscapes. They have value to people who understand what they are looking at or know how to objectively assess the imagery to learn things about the location that aren’t readily apparent. Such as how the snow drifts or the ice packs or the types of clouds, their coverage, and altitude. The shape and size of the visible headlands. The state of the sea at the time the photo was taken. Stuff like that was/is important to scientists of one stripe or another.


55 posted on 12/29/2013 8:51:56 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER; SunkenCiv

It’s amazing those images survived. I’m guessing glass negatives.


56 posted on 12/30/2013 2:59:07 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: yarddog

“I know I found a roll of 120 film at my grandmothers which had been lying on top of a safe for over 10 years. I had it processed and there was just the faintest image on two of them and the rest were totally blank.”

You had bad luck. I found a roll of exposed film at my grandparents house that was over 20 years old. It was B&W Kodak Verichrome Pan. Kodak sold a special additive chemical that I mixed with D-76 developer to reduce age-related fogging. The negatives turned out well and proved to be pictures of me and my sister when we were little kids.


57 posted on 01/01/2014 11:19:50 PM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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