About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0128
  • TitleAdmiral Byrd
  • SummaryCaption: "One of the last photographs of Admiral [Richard E.] Byrd to some north. It shows him (with back turned) talking to Communications Officer John Dyer just before the expedition leader isolated himself for months in a camp mora than 100 miles away from his 55 followers."
  • Date1934
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate inscribed on verso: Oct. 14/34. Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • SubjectByrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 ; Explorers -- United States
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationAntarctica
  • 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: 1933-1935: I