The Endurance_ Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition - Caroline Alexander [89]
Grateful thanks are also due to Ellen V. Futter, the museum's president, and Anne Sidaman-Eristoff, its chairman, for their support of the exhibition. I would like to give particular thanks to Dr. Craig Morris, dean of science, and Maron L. Waxman, associate director for special publishing, as well as to my colleagues David Harvey, director of exhibitions, Joel Sweimler, exhibition coordinator, Ross MacPhee, curator of mammalogy, and Cynthia Woodward, for their hard work and enthusiasm. My good friend Jenny Lawrence, editor at Natural History, acted as adviser and sounding board at early stages of both the book and the exhibition. Rose Wadsworth, coordinator of travelling exhibits, provided early guidance as well. Also to be thanked are Maria Yakimov, registrar, and Pat Dandonoli, executive director for institutional planning and media production, and designer Paul De Pass, who worked with the Exhibition Department.
The majority of the photographs were printed courtesy of the Royal Geographical Society, London, directly from Frank Hurley's surviving glass plate and film negatives. Since its foundation in 1830, the Royal Geographical Society has organized and financed numerous expeditions of discovery, and was indeed a contributor to Shackleton's 1914?16 expedition on the Endurance. The society's photographic holdings are priceless and legendary, and yet among even these the Hurley collection holds a certain pride of place. Much gratitude is owed to Dr. Rita Gardner, the society's president, as well as to Nigel de N. Winser, deputy director of the society; the latter was receptive and encouraging when the exhibition was merely a figment of my imagination. Particular thanks are owed to Joanna Scadden, picture library manager, for overseeing the complicated photographic printing process. Dr. A. F. Tatham, keeper of the society's archives, was helpful in providing documents and various items— including the Bible Shackleton thought he had left behind on the ice!
Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, provided the second part of the Hurley collection, allowing prints to be made from their album of unique and less well known Hurley photographs. I am grateful to the institute's helpful staff and would like to thank in particular Dr. Robert Headland, archivist and curator of the institute's remarkable collection of documents, photographs, and manuscripts. In the course of my visits to the institute, Dr. Headland steered me through the many diaries and other papers, and was always unstinting in his advice and comments. I am also particularly grateful to Philippa Smith, picture library manager, for her cheerful and efficient help in obtaining prints and odds and ends of research. The diaries of Sir Ernest Shackleton, Reginald James, Lionel Greenstreet (on microfilm), Thomas Orde-Lees, and Frank Worsley were read at Scott Polar Research Institute, as were the correspondence of many of these men, the papers of Shackleton's biographers Margery and James Fisher, and Lees's unpublished memoir, “Beset by Berg and Floe.” I also read here Worsley's typescript memoirs of the two boat journeys and the crossing of South Georgia. All quotations from these works are made with the kind permission of the institute.
The prints appearing in both this book and the exhibition were all produced by Barbara and Michael Gray, of Fox Talbot Museum. I am very grateful to them for both their superb work and for the information they supplied me about Hurley's photographic methods.
The Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, furnished microfilms of Frank Hurley's diary and Frank Wild's Memoirs, the originals of which are in their collection. It is also from their collection that Hurley's photograph of John Vincent (originally in Paget color) is reproduced. I am also extremely grateful to Tim Lovell-Smith of the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand, for the loan of