Frank Hurley Whole Plate Photographic Collection 1911-14

• Other Authors: South Australian Museum (isManagedBy)
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Museum Metadata Exchange
• Subjects: Antarctic Expeditions; Aurora Expedition; Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE); Glass plate negatives; Graflex camera; James Francis (Frank) Hurley; Antarctic regions; Antarctica; Exploration; Photography; Antarctic workers; expeditions; Explorers; geography & travel; Photographs; Antarctic; Cape Denison; Denison; Hurley; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/frank-hurley-plate-1911-14/937817

A collection of 189 photographs taken by James Francis (Frank) Hurley (1885-1962) as part of his duties as official photographer, covering expeditionary work on the Aurora Expedition. A Graflex camera was used and the photographs were taken on glass plate negatives (8 ½ by 6 ½ inches). Due to the large size and weight of the Graflex camera, Hurley used smaller format (including Stereoscopic) cameras particularly while sledging any distance from the Main Base, on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) led by Douglas Mawson. His AAE Whole Plate Collection was catalogued with the prefix 'W' for this grouping - to distinguish it from the BANZARE Whole Plate Collection ('WP')