Sir Ernest Shackleton in the Antarctic, 1915

Chris Wild's Retronaut is an amazing compilation of visual artifacts from the musty past. I came across this entry tonight: a shockingly beautiful set of photographs from Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated voyage to Antarctica in 1915.

They look like they may be hand-tinted but apparently they are in fact color photographs, with an ethereal, almost ghostly quality. See the full blog post here.

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