Checking supplies for Admiral Byrd's Antarctic expedition at Charlestown Naval Shipyard

Title:: Checking supplies for Admiral Byrd's Antarctic expedition at Charlestown Naval Shipyard
Photographer:: Merrill, Richard, 1908-
Name on Item:: Richard Merrill
Date:: [1940–1941]
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Nitrate negatives
Portrait photographs
Group portraits
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: Richard Merrill Collection
Subjects:: Naval yards & naval stations
Ship captains
Expeditions & surveys
Equipment & supplies
United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941)
Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Charlestown
Boston Navy Yard
Extent:: 1 photograph : nitrate film negative ; sheet 9 x 12 cm
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/m900tp79p
Terms of Use:: Copyright (c) Richard Merrill
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND).

Notes:: Title supplied by cataloger.
From original item housing: Title supplied by cataloger.
From original item housing: 12 - Red Cross / Catherine Winthrop copy / Mrs. Dodge copy / Spud Murphy pkgs / 4 Chairmen Back Bay / Mrs. Timmons copy / Mr. Fortunes men Shawmut Bank / JR Dept. packing cases toys / Mrs. Ratheford copy / Byrd supplies army base / Mrs. Cummins surgical dressing / Binding braille / 1940 - 41 / Mr. Gardiner copy / Wells copy / Wright copy
This expedition left from Boston in November of 1939. The date and more information about the expedition can be found in the article "Byrd Party to Survey Vast Antarctic Domain" in The Polar Times No. 9, November 1939
Notes (acquisition):: Purchased from Anne Osborn (Merrill) Goulette and Susan Batchelder (Merrill) Reveling; August 1998
Notes (date):: Date supplied by cataloger.
This date is inferred.
Identifier:: 18_10_000298

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