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Hussey and James working in the laboratory onboard 'Endurance' (1912) (Glass plate negative)
Two crab-eater seals on the ice, Weddell Sea (Glass plate negative)
'Endurance' (1912) in the ice (Glass plate negative)
A distant bow view of 'Endurance' (1912) frozen into the ice floe (Glass plate negative)
Captain Worsley standing by a large pressure ridge (Glass plate negative)
'Endurance' heeled to port by the ice (Glass plate negative)
Cape Pigeons afloat off South Georgia (Glass plate negative)
A Windsor "Popular" Model 5 zither banjo belonging to Dr Leonard Hussey (Banjo)
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