Byrd Collection

WILLIAM BYRD 1543 - 1623
WILLIAM BYRD English organist and composer, a pupil of Tallis. He is shown here conducting one of his compositions, which is being sung by Elizabethan courtiers

Basket Sleigh - Byrds Antarctic Expedition
Basket Sleigh from Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jrs 3rd Antarctic Expedition of 1940. Photograph taken during preparations for his trip, which had received official US backing

Byrd Antarctic Expedition II - Dog team on dangerous ice
Byrd Antarctic Expedition II - Dog team crossing treacherous pressure ice. On his second expedition in 1934, Richard E. Byrd (1888-1957)

Polar Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr
A superb photograph of a Polar Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (1888-1957) in full furs and holding a snow shoe. Byrd was a pioneering American naval officer, aviator, polar explorer

MCMURDO STATION / ANTARCT
The US McMurdo Station on Ross Island. In the foreground is a monument memorial to American explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd Date: 2005

Beyond the Poles
The legendary Land Beyond the Poles said to exist at both Poles : Admiral Byrd reported something of the sort during his 1929 South Pole overflight

Admiral Byrd / Ilz
ADMIRAL RICHARD EVELYN BYRD American naval officer and explorer. Flew over the North Pole in 1926 and the South Pole in 1929. Date: 1888-1957

Admiral Byrd / ?
RICHARD E. BYRD American aviator, later Admiral. Date: 1888-1957

Admiral Byrd / Ilz 1927
RICHARD E. BYRD American aviator, later Admiral. Date: 1888-1957

Byrd / Lindbergh / Ilz 1930
Commander Richard Byrd (right) in New York, being congratulated by Charles Lindbergh on his solo flight to the South Pole Date: 1930

Lindbergh / Byrd / Chamberln
Three famous aviation firsts - Charles Augustus Lindbergh with Byrd (the first to fly to the North Pole) & Chamberlin (the first to fly from New York to Germany). Date: 1927

Richard Byrds attempt to fly the Atlantic
The Fokker Trimotor aeroplane, America, in which the American aviator and naval officer Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888-1957) attempted to fly the Atlantic non-stop from the USA to France in the hope of

Admiral Richard Byrd, c. 1929
Photograph of Rear-Admiral Richard Byrd (1888-1957), the American explorer, pictured in his cold weather furs with two snow-shoes, c.1929

Rear-Admiral Richard Byrd, in the Antarctic, c. 1929
Photograph of Rear-Admiral Richard Byrd (1888-1957) setting out on skis from his polar exploration ship City of New York, c.1929

Rear-Admiral Richard Byrd, Antarctica, c. 1929
Photograph of Rear-Admiral Richard Byrd (1888-1957), the American explorer, pictured in his cold weather furs and with his dog Igloo ; Antarctica, c.1929

Admiral Byrd / Skyward
Richard Evelyn Byrd American admiral and aerial explorer; depicted entering his aircraft for the North Pole flight, 9 May 1926

Byrd / Curtiss Wright
Admiral Richard E Byrd, American aviator, and his Curtiss Wright biplane in which he flew to the Poles

Richard E Byrd, American aviator and explorer
American aviator and explorer, Richard E BYRD (1888-1957), later promoted to Admiral

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