From Antarctica: Merry Christmas 1929 & Happy New Year 1930
December 25, 2018 5:18 AM Subscribe
Warm Greetings from a Cold Country – Christmas in Antarctica — USN veteran Richard Kontner, accompanied by a well-travelled ukulele, joined Richard Byrd’s 1928 South Pole Expedition and sent ~1500 Christmas cards in 1929 while aboard the The City Of New York anchored near Little America, Antarctica.
His name is Richard Konter [WP bio], not Kontner.
More about his ukulele (with photos) in A Historic Martin Ukulele Visits the Arctic and is Signed by Edison, Coolidge, and Lindbergh.
posted by cenoxo at 11:02 AM on December 26, 2018
More about his ukulele (with photos) in A Historic Martin Ukulele Visits the Arctic and is Signed by Edison, Coolidge, and Lindbergh.
posted by cenoxo at 11:02 AM on December 26, 2018
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