JOSE M. SOBRAL - PICTURE POST CARD SIGNED 1903 - HFSID 86680
Sale Price $396.00
Reg. $440.00
JOSÉ SOBRAL
Signed postcard photo, shown with former Argentine President Mitre
Postcard Photograph signed: "José M. Sobral". B/w, 3½x5½. Captioned
(in Spanish) "General Mitre with Second Lieutenant Sobral". Addressed by an
unknown hand to a Amalia Figeroa, in the city, postmarked Buenos Aires,
December 28, 1903, 5-centavo Argentine stamp affixed. José Sobral
(1880-1961), an Argentine naval officer, scientist, author and explorer, joined
the Swedish Antarctica expedition of 1902, and spent two winters marooned on
Snow Hill Island, in the Weddell Sea, after a relief ship was crushed by ice.
Argentina's base camp for its expedition to the South Pole (1965) was named
after Sobral. Sobral left the navy, becoming a geologist and mining
engineer. He worked for many years for the Argentine oil company, YPF, and wrote
several books. Bartolomé Mitre (1821-1906), shown with Sobral in this
picture, was President of Argentina from 1862-1868, and afterward a well known
historian. Lightly spotted. Rounded corners. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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