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   Hurley
   James Francis / Frank
   J. F. H. ; Frank Hurley ;
   Antoinette Rosalind Leighton, in April 1918, daughter of an Indian Army officer
   son and three daughters
   1885 in Glebe, Australia
   1962
   Sydney
   third of five children to parents Edward Hurley, Lancashire-born printer and trade union official,& Margaret Hurley,née Bouffier, of French descent
   
   F.H. was raised in Glebe, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, worked in Lithgow steel mill, attended local techni.school & science lectures at Univ.Sydney
   Australia
   Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14 ; Ernest Shackleton's 2nd Antarctis expedition 1914-16 ; film-expeditions to Torres Strait Islands & Papua-New Guinea 1920-23 ;
   Australian Imperial Force (as official photographer w. rank: honorary captain)
   pioneer aviator (Sir) Ross Smith on the final leg of the historic flight from England to Australia, filming Australia from the air ;
   natural and landscape documentary photography and film-making, esp. accompanying expeditions
   http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hurley?uselang=de ; www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/endurance/
   Guide to his Papers in the National Library of Australia:http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms883 ; in State Libr.: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/SimpleSearch.aspx
   F. Legg & Antoinette Hurley: Once More on My Adventure (Sydney 1966) ; A. F. Pike in Australian Dictionary of Biography 9 (1983) ; L. Bickel: In Search of Frank Hurley (Melboune 1980) ;
   Also known as war photographer & documentary photographer of landscapes; on his films see www.imdb.com/name/nm0403439/.
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