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I just received the Sept issue of National Geographic and saw this interesting picture.


Dave Jolley

seeing those machines in original context - especially this sort of context - never fails to amaze me. I wonder where that one ended up, or if it made it back at all. most intriguing to me, though, is the dog, who's name was chris. chris.

A spear point wood horn, no less! When you mush dogs in the Arctic, only the best phonographs will do.

Quite a number of pictures were taken from Chris and the gramophone that day: http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/library/pictu ... gramophone

Here is another photo from the expedition with the Monarch gramophone in the background: http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/library/pictu ... 05.5.1245/

And here also: http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/library/pictu ... 05.5.1378/

Scott's gramophone was actually loaned to him by The Gramophone Company. It eventually returned to the company and is now in the EMI Archive.

http://www.emiarchivetrust.org/

In the 'Site navigation' drop down box select 'collections', then select the 'search' heading and enter 'Captain Scott'.

Keith