Antarctic--"Discovery" Relief Expeditions (1902-1904)

Oblong 4to (233 x 300mm.), 96 SILVER PRINTS (average 80 x 110mm., or the reverse, 2 larger: approx. 150 x 190mm.), mounted recto and verso, nearly all captioned in ink, contemporary dark blue half roan, some mounts and covers detached, spine worn
Oblong 4to (228 x 286mm.), 133 SILVER PRINTS (average 70 x 95mm., or the reverse), window mounted, recto and verso, original red cloth, lower hinge loose, rubbed
Oblong 8vo (152 x 223mm.), 59 SILVER PRINTS (average 105 x 80mm., or the reverse), mounted recto and verso, INSCRIBED BY MORRISON to his fiancée: "Marguerite L. Ramsay / 14/1/03", original black roan-backed grey/green boards, spine worn, mark to upper cover

John Donald Morrison (1873-1938); thence by family descent

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THREE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS COMPILED BY THE S.Y. MORNING'S CHIEF ENGINEER JOHN MORRISON RECORDING THE TWO VOYAGES TO MCMURDO SOUND FOR THE RELIEF OF SCOTT'S DISCOVERY EXPEDITION.

The Morning was purchased as a relief ship for the 1901-1904 British National Antarctic Expedition. She left London in July 1902 and onboard were Captain William Colbeck RNR and the other officers (Rupert G. England, First Officer; Lieutenant E.R.G.R. Evans RN, Second Officer; Gerald Doorly RNR, Third Officer; Sub-Lieutenant G.F.A. Mulock RN, fourth officer; Doctor G.A. Davidson; J.D. Morrison, Chief Engineer; and the midshipmen F. L. Maitland-Somerville and Neville Pepper); all are pictured onboard Morning in one of two larger images (150 x 193mm.)

The photographs include Scott Island (4); Possession Island (3); Franklin Island (7); Cape Crozier (3); 'Crew of the Morning looking out for Discovery'; 'A busy day on the Ice near Discovery'; 'Farewell to the Discovery crew March 1903'; Beaufort Strait and Island (5); Capt. Scott leaving the Morning'; 'Sledging McMurdo Strait'; Terra Nova (6); 'First meeting with Discovery crew'; 'Lieut. Royds sitting on Firing Battery' (others showing placing of charges, explosions and effect); 'Dr Davidson & Lieut. Evans'; 'Capts. Scott & Colbeck (using telescope on tripod); 'Dr Wilson and Cross packing seal skins'; 'Discovery breaking free from Winter Quarters'; 'Terra Nova coaling Discovery'.

Morrison was born in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute, the son of a Stornoway shipmaster, and studied engineering in Glasgow.