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Leather and its uses for purses, boots, gloves, saddles, luggage, etc., 1871. Creator: Unknown

Leather and its uses for purses, boots, gloves, saddles, luggage, etc., 1871. The various processes for treating leather, and the trades using it for clothing and manufacturing

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Petty Officer Evans Binding Up Dr. Atkinsons Hand, 5 July 1911, (1913). Artist

Petty Officer Evans Binding Up Dr. Atkinson's Hand. The marks on Atkinson's face are frost-bites, 5 July 1911, (1913). Edgar Evans (1876-1912) bandaging the frostbite-affected hand of Dr Edward Atkinson (1881-1929). The final expedition of British Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) left London on 1 June 1910 bound for the South Pole. The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition (1910-1913), included a geologist, a zoologist, a surgeon, a photographer, an engineer, a ski expert, a meteorologist and a physicist among others. Scott wished to continue the scientific work that he had begun when leading the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic in 1901-04. He also wanted to be the first to reach the geographic South Pole. Scott, accompanied by Dr Edward Wilson, Captain Lawrence Oates, Lieutenant Henry Bowers and Petty Officer Edgar Evans, reached the Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that the Norwegian expedition under Amundsen had beaten them to their objective by a month. Delayed by blizzards, and running out of supplies, Scott and the remainder of his team died at the end of March. Their bodies and diaries were found eight months later. From Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I. [Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1913]

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Picture made from seal gut skin with sewn on male and female figures with a umiaq (womens boat)

Picture made from seal gut skin with sewn on male and female figures with a umiaq (women's boat). Collected on the Gustav Holt expedition to Ammassalik, East Greenland, in 1883-85. Undecorated gut skin was normally used for windows, but the use of this picture is unknown. Museum no: Lc.945 Country of Origin: Greenland. Culture: Eskimo. Date/Period: C 19th, collected 1883-5. Place of Origin: Ammassalik, East Greenland. Material Size: seal gut skin, l = 41 cm, h = 10.5cm. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Greenland National Museum . Location: 21

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