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"Just after a storm - with tent town in the foreground, 1934"

Dog sledge passing through a pressure ridge - left: a flag marking a safe passage.

"Leaving the icebergs behind - just before a storm over Ross Sea, 1935"

"Sun dog, a mirage phenomenon - the upper being the real sun, 1934"

"The Bear at the Bay of Whales, just before sailing, isolating 56 men for an inde...

Colorful sky above dark sea

Aeroplanes buried in the snows - tails of Pilgrim and Condor.

"The Bear under full sail, leaving the iceberg behind, bound for home, 1935"

Ice formation, two men working, tent in the background 1934.

"The Bear entering Bolling bright after loading the Ruppert with equipment she ha...

"View of the station Little America after the wintering, Oct. 25, 1934"

"The Bear idling in the lee of East Barrier, waiting for the pack to go out, for ...

"The Ruppert following the Bear along the lee of the Barrier to Discovery Inlet, ...

Floes contaminated by diatoms.

"The Bear idling at the point of the Bay of Whales, waiting for icebergs and pack...

Magnetometer in an ice cave - illumination by candle light.

"Scientist Perkins drawing a net at a seal-hole on shelf ice [read bay ice] of th...

Red sky.

"Beginning of a drift, showering from the point of West Barrier - on a penguin hu...

Halo, two airplanes and beacon in the foreground.

"Blasting the Bay of Whales for a seismic sounding for the thickness of ice and d...

"The first drift at East Barrier cache, equipment already buried, overcast sky, v...

"The Ruppert passing through a field of growlers on the way to Discovery Inlet - ...

Sky, ice, the airplanes - mock sun.

Halo; wing of the Fokker airplane crashed on March 12, 1934

"A gray day. The Bear loading at Vers-sur-Mer Inlet, with pack ice and icebergs i...

"After sunset - at 10 a.m. - digging in for the winter, 1934"

View from the Jacob Ruppert upon the dark sea

"The first brilliant aurora display. Time: 11a.m., 1934"

"Making sails on the Bear at Discovery Inlet, 1935"

"From East Barrier, with overcast sky - the Bear idling at the Bay of Whales, 193...

Return of the Jacob Ruppert - glistening sun.

Bear of Oakland moored at the ice.

Moderate snowdrift, Airplane - Pilgrim, Condor and the Kellet gyrocopter.

Cloud formation.

"Sunrise after a long Winter Night. Only the tails of the Pilgrim and Condor can ...

"The Bear following the lee of the Barrier to Discovery Inlet, passing through a ...

Halo, dogs, snow drift.

"Parhelion with the upper arc with almost complete symmetrical form - tangent of ...

"The Bear leaving the Ruppert after loading coal and exchanging cargo outside Dis...

"On the Ross Sea - last of the Antarctic Sunset - just before a storm, 1935"

Dogs, sledge, tent, low sun casting long shadows.

"Passing Lindbergh Inlet, named by the First Byrd Antarctic Expedition - on the w...

"Parhelion caused by cirrus clouds - a typical clear day, with men skiiing on the...

Moon with colored aureole and a weak halo.

"A 22 1/2 degrees Halo caused by high drift - from my summer tent on East Barrier...

Tails of the Pilgrim and the Condor, the Kellett gyrocopter in the foreground.

Greenish sky.

"Approaching a storm - just passing the Antarctic Circle on the way to civilizati...

Forecastle Jacob Ruppert

Bear of Oakland under Sails

"Low tide, with the Bear loading at Bolling Bight - with the midnight Sun, 1935&q...

"The only broadcast recorded on the Bay ice, transmitting the sounds of seals and...

Looking at the coastline from Jacob Ruppert

"The Bear leaving Vers-sur-Mer Inlet after escorting the Ruppert for final loadin...

"Leaving Ross Sea, approaching the Antarctic Circle on the way home - a cold, ear...

"Anti-parhelion, directly opposite the sun - rare phenomenon, caused by mirror re...

Yellow sun with distinctive aureole.

"Sun dog with parhelion of 22 1/2 degrees, before the Bear sailed, 1934"

"Grat day. Mother and baby seal basking on the bay ice, 1934"

"Making sails at Discovery Inlet for the final departure to civilization, 1935"

"Sunrise and sunset - the beginning of the Midnight Sun, Oct. 21, 1934"

"Overcast sky on Ross Sea - from the Ruppert - the Bear making up sails at the po...

Snowmobiles leaving the vicinity of the station around midnight, Oct. 20 (26?), 1934.

Unusual cloud formation hiding the sun.

Material offloaded at site of Beardmore Station. Commonwealth Range in the background.

Ross Ice Shelf Traverse, Peter Schoek (yellow) and Hugh Bennet eating in Tucker Sno-Cat

USS Glacier, GB-4, coated with ice after a heavy storm in the South Pacific enroute to...

Ross Ice Shelf and Ross Island in the background.

Williams Field at Little America V with R4D and Otter aircraft.

Ross Ice Shelf Traverse, PHC Calvin Larsen.

Tractor train in blizzard on Byrd Plateau, led by PHC Calvin Larsen, assistant command...

Crevasse near Little America V is examined after being blasted open by C-4 charge near...

Train commander's weasel runs alongside train on trail to Byrd Station, 650 miles ...

Operation Deep Freeze II SeaBee cutting steel at Little America V in cold weather just...

Chapel at McMurdo Sound with Obersvation Hill (?) in background.

Ross Ice Shelf Traverse, Walter Boyd (red) and Peter Schoek (yellow) making ice cores

Little America Band as it performed for the crew at mid-winter party.

Little America V, aerial view at end of summer season.

Ice Recon Party approaches crevasse, crevasse detector in background.

Photographing an Emporer Penguin on bay ice near McMurdo Sound

Navy R4D ski plane taxis on McMurdo Sound bay ice.

Five of us built camp. Sun had just risen here. Beardmore.

Second train returning to Little America V across Marie Byrd Land, complete 1300 mile ...

The five of us who built the camp. Left to Right: HM1 Smittle, RMC McCue, Captain Pul...

Weddell seal on the ice of the Ross Sea (close up)

Cocoa at Scott's Hut on Cape Evans.

Dr. Albert Crary, Leader Ross Ice Shelf Traverse makes an observation.

Little America after the winter night of 1957. Entire camp covered by drifting snow.

Two R4D supply the camp at Beardmore.

USS Glacier leaves an open water way in the ice pack in the Ross Sea, enroute to Antar...

Peter Schoek, Aurora and Air Glow IGY, on skis with the Ross Ice Shelf Traverse.

Navy R4D ski planes bring supplies to Beardmore WX Station, IGY, Antarctica

Shell Motor Spirits (gasolene) at Scott's camp at Cape Evans, 1910

Chief electronics technician Earl Tracey in Chief's Quarters at Little America dur...

Beardmore Station after antennas had been raised.

Member of Ross Ice Shelf Trail Recon party walks over sastrugi on Ross Ice Shelf near ...

USS Glacier, GB-4, tied up in Rhode Island, making ready to leave for Antarctica

First tractor train bound for Byrd Station with material to build that station.