About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0133
  • TitleS. S. North Star
  • SummaryCaption: "After divers grievous mishaps, 20-ton 'snowmobile' (with wheels 10 ft. in diameter) sailed from Boston aboard S. S. North Star on Admiral Byrd's 1939 Antarctica trip."
  • Date1939
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate inscribed on verso: Nov. 19/39. On recto: large black arrow pointing to snowmobile on ship deck. Retouched. Stamped on verso: "Wide World Photos." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorWide World Photos, Inc.
  • SubjectByrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 ; Ships ; Ships -- Massachusetts -- Boston ; Snowmobiles
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationBoston (Mass.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Portraits: Byrd, Richard E. Admiral: Antarctic Expedition: 1939-1940