Admiral Byrd prepares for South Polar expedition Operation Highjump in Antarctica. Ships at the East Coast Port. A United States plane on the ship. Sailor covers the plane and takes out the wing. Sailors with Husky snow dogs. Admiral Byrd and other officers look at a map. Scenes from former Polar expeditions: Ship sails in water with large amounts of ice in water. People disembark the ship. Tents on the ice. Snow dogs in the polar region. A dog huddling in a doghouse, but largely covered with snow. A man with a dog. Men pull sleds with equipment. Scenes again from Operation High Jump preparing to depart. People stand on ship's deck. A young woman waves to the people. Ship leaves the East Coast Port for south polar expedition.
Street scenes in the Sweet Auburn neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia. A bus stops in front of a Yates & Milton Drugstore (230 Auburn Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30303, United States) in Atlanta, Georgia, owned by Clayton R. Yates and Lorimer D. Milton. A “Drink Coca-Cola Prescriptions” sign hangs outside the drugstore. African American commuters board the bus in front of the drugstore. Southern Bread advertisement on bus reads “New! Made with Buttermilk … Southern Bread”. African American men and women pass by the Yates & Milton Drugstore in the Sweet Auburn neighborhood. Butler Street YMCA (22 Jesse Hill Jr Dr NE, Atlanta, GA 30303, United States--formerly 20-24 Butler St) located in the Sweet Auburn Historic District, next to the Walden Building. Pedestrians crossing the road in front of the Yates & Milton Drugstore. Alexander & Company (208 Auburn Ave NE #10, Atlanta, GA 30303, United States) and Citizens Trust Co. building next door (210 Auburn Ave. NE) beside the Big Bethel AME Church. The Atlanta Daily World editorial office and printing press facility is also seen at 210 Auburn. (The Atlanta Daily World business office was located elsewhere on Auburn.) . A rotating time and temperature monitoring clock on top of the Citizens Trust Co. sign. This was the first African American owned bank to join the FDIC.
Byrd Expedition Explorers at camp site in Antarctica. Man near a telescope on stand. man looks through the telescope and adjusts the view. A man plots a route using a compass on a map. Men walk across the snow to a point and mark it with a U.S. flag. A map shows the route between Little America and the South Pole. Men on dog sledges move across the terrain. Snow covered mountains in the background. Men walk up to a monument made up of a pile of stones, dedicated to explorers who reached this point in the past. They take off their hats as a sign of respect. A man takes out cans from this pile. The cans contain notes from various explorers. They read a note dated 14-16 December 1911, written by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He puts the note back into the can, closes it and replaces the same into the monument.
Byrd Expedition Explorers at camp site in Antarctica. Man near a telescope on stand. man looks through the telescope and adjusts the view. A man plots a route using a compass on a map. Men walk across the snow to a point and mark it with a U.S. flag. A map shows the route between Little America and the South Pole. Men on dog sledges move across the terrain. Snow covered mountains in the background. Men walk up to a monument made up of a pile of stones, dedicated to explorers who reached this point in the past. They take off their hats as a sign of respect. A man takes out cans from this pile. The cans contain notes from various explorers. They read a note dated 6-7 January 1912. December 1911, written by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He puts the note back into the can, closes it and replaces the same into the monument.
A film titled 'Shackleton's Last Antarctic expedition' about Sir Ernest Shackleton's last expedition to Antarctica. A map as a pointer points at route to be taken during the expedition. Ernest Shackleton before leaving for the expedition. Ship named Quest in a harbor. The ship leaves Southampton, England and sails past RMS Aquitania.
Sir Ernest Shackleton's last expedition to Antarctica. Ship Quest underway at sea after stopping at Lisbon, Portugal. The Quest underway in the Atlantic Ocean. View from Quest as it passes the five masted sailing ship "France II" (stated as"La France" in the film slates), the largest sailing ship in the world, as it approaches St. Paul Rocks off the coast of Brazil. (France II was built by Chantiers et Ateliers de la Gironde in Bordeaux, and was launched November 9, 1911.)
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