Guide to the Roger Mills Hawthorne Papers, 1927-1968
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Roger Mills Hawthorne Papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine.
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Roger Mills Hawthorne (Bowdoin 1929), was born in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire on January 24, 1905. From 1929 to 1973, he was a free-lance writer and journalist in Massachusetts, Maine, and Washington D.C. In 1939 and 1941, Hawthorne accompanied Admiral Byrd as a failed representative for the United States Antarctic Service, and it was on the first of these expeditions that the admiral named a 3,400-foot peak on Thurston Island in the Amundsen Sea after him. Hawthorne later recieved a Congressional Honor Medal for Antarctic Exploration (1946). He was also information officer of the New Zealand Legation, Washington D.C. (1942-1948); executive assistant to the president of English-Speaking Union, New York City (1948-57); executive director of Stetson Law Center Foundation, St. Petersburg, Florida (1958-59); president of the White House Correspondents Association (1937-38); and New Zealand representative for the International Whaling Conference (1947). Hawthorne was married first to Blanche Boardman (1931), and then to Sylvia Moulson (1935), and two children, Mark and Prudence. He died on May 12, 1973, in Pocasset, Massachusetts, following a long illness.
The collection contains over 800 photographs, newspaper clippings, and maps pertaining to Hawthorne's Antarctic expeditions.
Over eight hundred photographs from Hawthorne's 1939-1941 Antarctic expedition. Subjects of photos include ships, seascapes and landscapes, dogs and sledges, wildlife, and expedition personnel.
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Bryant report on Biology
Byrd Exploration Flight, 27 Feb 1940
Postcards from Chile
"Curtis"
"Leland Curtis"
Horeshoe Bay
East Base
Dogs and Sledges
Gear and Camps
Roger Hawthorne
Personnel
Seascapes and Landscapes
Ships
Wildlife
Negatives
Dogs and Sledges
Gear and Camps
Personnel
Seascapes and Landscapes
Ships
Wildlife
Twenty-five photographs, medium sized: incl. a few negatives
Enlarged prints of photographs; some bluetone, some sepia tone
Newspaper clippings from U.S. and South America about Hawthorne's 1939-1941 Antarctic expedition, plus several maps of Antarctica.
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Maps of Antarctica, with manuscript additions
Map of Antarctica
Newspaper Clippings: U.S. Press, 1939-1941
Newspaper Clippings: South American Press, 1939-1941
Enlargement (20"X16")of official photo #5887, USS Bear moored to ice in Bay of Whales, 8" X 10", filed in box4. Ships Painting of official photo #2299 North Star Anchored in Marguerite Bay, East Base Site in foreground Ephemera: National Geographic article re Antarctica, Feb 1962