Guide to the Papers of Frank Hurley
MS 883
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2003
Online Items
Series 1. Diaries, 1912-1961
See also Series 4, Item 74 (Papua New Guinea diary, 1921).
My diary, with Bage and Webb, to the south magnetic pole, 1912-1913 (Item 1)
Mawson Expedition. Typescript. 27cm. n.p.
My diary, 5 November 1914 to 31 December 1915 (Item 2)
Pamphlet - South Georgia - Weddell Sea, Frozen in - ships drift -, wreck of Endurance. Typescript bound with pamphlet The Imperial Trans? Antarctic Expedition. 26.4cm. n.p. Filmed on G 10,285
My diary, Shackleton Expedition, 1 January 1916 - 4 September 1916 (Item 3)
Drifting floe - Elephant Island - Relief. Typescript. 26.4cm. n.p. Filmed on G 10, 285
My diary, Shackleton Expedition, 5 September 1916 - 25 April 1917 (Item 4)
Return home through Chile and Argentine, Brazil and Spain - London - Return South Georgia, my stay South Georgia. Typescript with manuscript corrections. 26.4cm. n.p. Filmed on G 10,285
My diary, official War Photographer Commonwealth Military Forces, 21 August 1917 - 31 August 1918 (Item 5)
Flanders - France - London - Malta, Palestine - Egypt - London. Typescript with manuscript markings. 26.4cm. n.p.
Frank Hurley's diary, when on tour with the Shackleton Picture, 21 November 1919 - 20 January 1920 (Item 6)
Autograph manuscript. n.p.
A private diary, Capt. Frank Hurley. c/-Kodak. Australasia (Item 7)
George St. Sydney. Being account of a voyage to the Barrier Reef. The Torres Straits Islands and New Guinea. From 2 December 1920. Islands visited, Darnley, Murray, Mabuiag, Moa. Autograph manuscript with many alterations. 135pp. 2 December 1920 - 31 January 1921.
Diary no B, Frank Hurley's diary, 1921 (Item 8)
Being record of my experiences during a visit to the Torres Straits Islands and New Guinea, including an epitome of the pearling of Thursday Island. Autograph manuscript. 181pp...
Diary D. My diary, 1921 (Item 9)
From Kiaruka - to Ononge, and to Port Moresby. New Guinea. Autograph manuscript, bound vol., 84pp.
Second expedition to New Guinea. Diary No. 2, 1922 (Item 11)
Concerning the passage up the Fly to our meeting with the natives of Lake Murray. Autograph manuscript signed, bound vol., 143pp.
Diary No. 4, 1923 (Item 13)
Contains an amount of official correspondence to and from Frank Hurley. Autograph manuscript signed. 45pp.
Account by Ross Macpherson Smith of his 1919 flight entitled 'My first aerial voyage from London to Australia' (Item 14)
Autograph manuscript. 34pp, n.d. Contained in a notebook, together with notes for lecture-film evenings (written by Hurley), and 'Adventure films and the psychology of the audience', n.p.
Autograph rewritten from part of the diary kept on the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Expedition 1929 on which Frank Hurley was official photographer (Item 16)
Includes photographs. 52pp.
The second voyage of the Discovery to Antarctica, 1930-1931 (Item 17)
Contains photographs. 486pp. (16 November 1930 - 19 March 1931) . Autograph manuscript signed. Filmed on G 10, 285
Diary, August - September 1940 (Item 18)
7 August 1940 - 14 August 1940, 81pp. 8 September 1940 - 15 September 1940, 51pp. Autograph manuscript.
Diary No. 1, 13 January 1941 - [?] (Item 19)
Commencing with campaign before Tobruk. Autograph manuscript with many alterations and corrections. n.p.