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Polar Medal 1904 (Polar medal)
Looking across newly formed ice with 'Endurance' (1912) on the distant horizon (Glass plate negative)
A very distant broadside view of 'Endurance' (1912) beset in ice (Glass plate negative)
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)
Needle case
Leather wallet (Wallet)
Inkwell
Pages from Encyclopedia Britannia (Book pages)
Syringe
Thermometer
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Plain writing paper (Writing paper)
Needle case
Carved wooden letter knife (Knife)
Set of wooden pegs (Pegs)
Cape Pigeons afloat off South Georgia (Glass plate negative)
A view along the shore with penguins in the foreground, South Georgia (Glass plate negative)
A Windsor "Popular" Model 5 zither banjo belonging to Dr Leonard Hussey (Banjo)
Boat compass and binnacle
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