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"BURIED IN ICE FOR 33 YEARS " (NORTH POLE) andree, s. a.
Group of 12 photographs chronicling the doomed Andree polar expedition to the North Pole. Silver copy prints, 6x9 inches (15.3x23 cm.), several with a hand stamp and handwritten numerical notations on verso. 1897; printed 1930
- Notes: from the estate of william hillman, the Hearst newspapers' European correspondent during the 1930s-40s. On July 11, 1897, S. A. Andree and his aeronaut Swedish companions, Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel, set out on an ill-fated balloon expedition to the North Pole. Three days later the explorers landed on an Arctic floe--180 miles from land--and hastily set up camp. The pictures, which were shot by Andree himself, show provisions and equipment piled up in preparation for the long journey over ice; their first polar bear, foraging for food, and frigid scenes of camp life. In 1930 Hearst's newspapers featured an exclusive multi-part installment about the recovery of film. A detailed account of the technical difficulties restoring his undeveloped film negatives, which had been buried in ice for 33 years (along with his and his colleagues' bodies), also appeared in the articles. Accompanying the photographs are period newspapers and related ephemera.
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