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The collection consists of 62 photographs by Frank Hurley (Australian, 1885-1962) that document Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, from 1914 to 1917, including scenes aboard and the sinking of the Endurance. The photographs, which are all gelatin silver prints, are accompanied by an eleven-page typescript narrative by the photographer. Hurley made the prints shortly before his death for the photo-historian Helmut Gernsheim. Titles from the typescript follow.
964:0553:0001 -- Map of the Expedition; 964:0553:0002 -- Sir Ernest Shackleton; 964:0553:0003 -- Frank Hurley; 964:0553:0004 -- The Endurance; 964:0553:0005 -- King Edward Cove; 964:0553:0006 -- Whalers and Whale Carcass; 964:0553:0007 -- Alpine Scenery of South Georgia Island; 964:0553:0008 -- Ice Shattered Peaks; 964:0553:0009 -- Icy Sea; 964:0553:0010 -- Whales; 964:0553:0011 -- Seaman on Bow of Ship with Iceberg in the Distance; 964:0553:0012 -- Sailing Ship and Its Swath Through the Ice; 964:0553:0013 -- Sailing Ship on Icy Sea; 964:0553:0014 -- Mast of Sailing Ship and Large Ice Floes; 964:0553:0015 -- Sailing Ship Held Up in Ice; 964:0553:0017 -- Sailing Ship Trapped on Ice; 964:0553:0018 -- Attempt to Free the Vessel from the Icy Grip; 964:0553:0019 -- Sailing Ship Held Up in Ice; 964:0553:0020 -- Dogs and Igloos Next to Sailing Ship; 964:0553:0021 -- Tom Crean Holding Sally's Puppies; 964:0553:0022 -- Frank Wild, Second in Command, with Lupoid, Leader of His Dog Team; 964:0553:0023 -- Hudson, the Navigating Officer, with a Penguin Under Each Arm Heading to the Cook's Galley; 964:0553:0024 -- Frank Hurley Feeding the Dogs in the Dark at 2:00 p.m.; 964:0553:0025 -- In the Laboratory Below Decks: Setting Up the Dipcircle for Magnetic Observations; 964:0553:0026 -- Chaotic Masses of Ice After a Blizzard; 964:0553:0027 -- Drifting Iceberg; 964:0553:0028 -- Iceberg and Ship; 964:0553:0029 -- Polar Nights, Snowdrifts and Low Temperatures Encasing the Ship; 964:0553:0030 -- Return of the sun; 964:0553:0031 -- Dazzling Field of White Carnations, Encrusting the Surface of Newly Formed Ice; 964:0553:0032 -- The Beginning of Trouble; 964:0553:0033 -- The Endurance Balanced on the Top of a Pressure Ridge in Peril of Toppling Over; 964:0553:0034 -- The Endurance Flung 30 Degrees to Port; 964:0553:0035 -- The Death of the Ship Seemed Inevitable; 964:0553:0036 -- Millions of Tons of Ice Beset Endurance on Every Side and the Hull Collapsed Under the Strain; 964:0553:0037 -- Abandoning Ship; 964:0553:0038 -- Dogsled Team Facing the Shipwreck of the Endurance; 964:0553:0039 -- Near View of the Shipwreck of the Endurance Viewed By One of the Seamen; 964:0553:0040 -- Seamen on Ocean Camp on Ice Flow After Destruction of Endurance; 964:0553:0041 -- Frank Hurley and Sir Ernest Shackleton in Front of Tent; 964:0553:0042 -- View of Ocean Camp; 964:0553:0043 -- Seals and Penguins on Ice Floe; 964:0553:0044 -- Leaving Ocean Camp; 964:0553:0045 -- Drawing Boats Onto Ice Floe to Wait for the Dawn; 964:0553:0046 -- Seamen Huddled Around Blubber Fire on Ice Floe; 964:0553:0047 -- Reaching Elephant Island; 964:0553:0048 -- Reaching Elephant Island / Paradise Regained; 964:0553:0049 -- Cape Wild; 964:0553:0050 -- Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and Five Crew Men Setting Out for South Georgia; 964:0553:0051 -- Men Marooned on Elephant Island; 964:0553:0052 -- Group Portrait of the Men Marooned on Elephant Island; 964:0553:0053 -- [Artist's Impression of Life Beneath the Boats; 964:0553:0054 -- Artist's Impression Shackleton and His Rescue Team Reaching South Georgia Island; 964:0553:0055 -- Artist's Impression Shackleton and His Rescue Team Pulling the Boat Ashore on South Georgia Island; 964:0553:0056 -- Seals on the Shore of King Haakon Bay on South Georgia Island; 964:0553:0057 -- Glimpse Taken in the Heart of South Georgia Across Which Shackleton, Worsley and Crean Won Their Dogged Way and Survived Incredible Perils; 964:0553:0058 -- [View of the Heart of South Georgia Island; 964:0553:0059 -- The Whaling Station on South Georgia Island; 964:0553:0060 -- Sighting of the Vessel with Shackleton and the Rescue Crew; 964:0553:0061 -- Marooned Seamen Waving to Shackleton, Crean and Worsley in the Rescue Boat; 964:0553:0062 -- View of the Rescue Boat with the Shackleton Expedition Crew Aboard. |
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