S5928

‘Papaw trees'. Voyage of HMS Challenger 1873-6 Long Caption: This is a brown board covered album containing 324 photographs 2 loose photographs (unidentified indigenous people in a canoe and a portrait of Captain Thomas Henry Tizard). The boards are loose and gold blocked. The album belonged to Tizard (1839-1924) who was the Navigating Officer on the voyage. The album relates to the voyage of discovery by HMS Challenger (1858) and contains the same images as in ALB0174-6 (may have been copied), except for 11 photographs as follows: 33 - Dobbo; 54, 80, 84 - Gibraltar; 87, 90 - Madeira; 119 - St Michaels, Azores; 136 - Marquesas Islands; 261 - Brazil; 291 - Inaccessible Island; 294 - Marion Island, South Atlantic. Credit line: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Object: ALB0859 Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.