100 Years old Unique Negatives Preserved in an ice block
Tauheed Ahmad Nawaz
100 years old Unique Negatives Preserved in an ice block provides a glimpse of Antarctica adventures. In recent times, Conservators of the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust came across the twenty-two exposed, but unprocessed, cellulose nitrate negatives during an effort to restore an old exploration hut.
It is believed that the negatives were Ross Sea Party Ernest Shackleton’s 1914-1917, a group that was stranded, in the hut during a blizzard when their ship blew out to sea, but eventually, they were rescued, but their box remained buried until now. These negatives are carefully processed in order to expose the historic mysteries in each frame.
Although somewhat damaged, these can be really called unique negatives which provide a rare glimpse of 100 years back adventures tour. AHT Executive Director Nigel Watson says it is the first example that I am aware of, of undeveloped negatives from a century ago from the Antarctic heroic era. There’s a paucity of images from that expedition.
