2019-07-05 Guide to the John H. Roscoe Papers, 1944-2003, bulk circa 1946-1952 SPEC.PA.56.0127 Finding aid prepared by Beth Crowner, Karen Glenn Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections
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2019 July This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2019-08-19T16:21-0400 English Describing Archives: A Content Standard John H. Roscoe Papers SPEC.PA.56.0127 Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections 18.15 Cubic feet Bulk, 1946-1952 1944-2003, bulk circa 1946-1952 John H. Roscoe joined the Intelligence Office for the Army Air Corps during the Second World War. He was ordered to join Task Force 68 on their exploration of Antarctica from 1946-1947, which became known as Operation Highjump. Roscoe was the only qualified photo interpreter on the trip, and led the team in mapping Antarctica through aerial photography. He returned to Antarctica the following year as part of Operation Windmill to map control points. After the expeditions, Roscoe used the photographs and data he had collected to write his PhD thesis, titled "Contributions to the Study of Antarctic Surface Features by Photogeographical Methods." The John H. Roscoe Papers contain approximately 2,500 aerial photographs taken by Roscoe’s team in Antarctica during Operation Highjump and Windmill. The photographs, taken from vertical and oblique angles, are both loose aerial photographs and ground level photographs, some of which are incorporated into rough drafts of Roscoe’s thesis, with many photographs organized by topic and captioned. Topics include sea ice, meltwater, glaciers, and other surface features. The collection also contains correspondence, other documents used by Roscoe in his research, official Naval reports of Operation Highjump, a Topcon stereoscope viewer used to view aerial photographs, and recordings and other materials related to an oral history interview Roscoe gave in 2002. The collection is dated 1944-2003, with the bulk of materials dated circa 1946-1952. (25) oversize document boxes; (6) 5" letter document boxes; (6) audiocassettes; (2) letter file folders; (1) artifact; (1) rolled item box; (1) carton; (1) card box; (1) 2.5" letter document box English Roscoe, John H. Arrangement of Materials

The John H. Roscoe Papers are arranged in three series:

Series 1: "Contributions to the Study of Antarctic Surface Features by Photogeographical Methods" Series 2: Operation Highjump and Windmill Series 3: Other Career

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Accession No. PA.2002.0025: John H. Roscoe, 2002 September, December; Accession No. PA.2018.0018: Mike Diggles, 2018 October

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[identification of item], John H. Roscoe Papers, SPEC.PA.56.0127, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program, Ohio State University

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 Biographical Note

John Hobbie Roscoe (1919-2007) joined the Intelligence Office for the Army Air Corps during the Second World War. He was ordered to join Task Force 68 as aerial photographer on their exploration of Antarctica from 1946-1947, which became known as Operation Highjump. Roscoe was the only qualified photo interpreter on the trip, and joined Admirals Byrd and Quackenbush in Panama to start the expedition. Roscoe was an initial member of the landing party at Little America, the base Admiral Byrd had established on a prior expedition in 1939. Due to the magnetic interference of the South Pole with the navigation instruments of the planes, obtaining aerial photographs was extremely difficult. Trimetrigon film and camera settings were used, and the photographs themselves were taken from R4D planes and American Mariners, which were flying boats.

Roscoe returned to Antarctica the following year as part of Operation Windmill to map control points, which would then be used to make accurate maps and help interpret the previous series of photos. After the expeditions, Roscoe returned to Washington D.C. and worked on a bibliography on Antarctica that was later published. He later used the photographs and data he had collected on the expeditions to obtain a doctorate from the University of Maryland in 1952. His thesis was titled "Contributions to the Study of Antarctic Surface Features by Photogeographical Methods," and it introduced a newly discoverd coastline based on Roscoe's photographic interpretation. Roscoe continued to remain active in the field of polar studies after his retirement, and as of 2002, was still the Vice President of the American Polar Society, a position he had held since 1957.

 Scope and Contents

The John H. Roscoe Papers contain approximately 2,500 aerial photographs taken by Roscoe and Task Force 68 in Antarctica during Operation Highjump from 1946-1947, and Operation Windmill in 1948. The photographs, taken from vertical and oblique angles, map the surface features of the Antarctic landscape, including sea ice formations. The photographs in the collection were used by Roscoe to perform post-operation research for and form drafts of his 1952 PhD thesis, “Contributions to the Study of Antarctic Surface Features by Photogeographical Methods." As such, the collection contains both loose photographs and photographs integrated into rough drafts of the thesis, as well as other sources used by Roscoe in his research on this topic. The drafts consist of photographs grouped together by topic, cut, outlined, and captioned. Almost all aerial photographs in the collection are labeled officially by their sector, mission, and run, which corresponds to three geographic areas in Antarctica (AAC, AAE, and AAW), and the organization of photography flights. There are also photographs taken at ground level of various landscape and surface features, some of which are incorporated into the thesis drafts, as well as images of the Operation’s camp and camp life, ships, planes, and Antarctic fauna. The collection includes other materials related to Operation Highjump, such as Roscoe’s correspondence received from 1946-1947, and four volumes of the official Naval report of Operation Highjump, dated 1948. The collection also contains materials related to other aspects of Roscoe’s career, such as correspondence received while he was working at the Photo Interpretation Center in Washington D.C. before Operation Highjump, a Topcon stereoscope viewer dated circa 1980s, and the oral history interview he gave to the Ohio State University Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program in 2002. The collection is dated 1944-2003, with the bulk of materials dated circa 1946-1952.

 Related Materials Contributions to the Study of Antarctic Surface Features by Photogeographical Methods Admiral Richard E. Byrd Papers Operation Highjump (1946-1947). Operation Windmill (1947-1948). Roscoe, John H. United States. Navy--Photographers. United States. Navy. Task Force 68. Aerial photogrammetry--Antarctica--20th century Aerial photographs Black-and-white prints (photographs) Cultural artifacts Glaciers--Antarctica--20th century Ice--Antarctica--20th century Icebergs--Antarctica--20th century Meltwater--Antarctica--20th century Photographic surveying--20th century Photography, Military--Antarctica--20th century Polar regions--Discovery and exploration--American--20th century Sea ice--Antarctica--20th century Stereoscopes "Contributions to the Study of Antarctic Surface Features by Photogeographical Methods" Series 1 circa 1946-1952 Scope and Contents

The "Contributions to the Study of Antarctic Surface Features by Photogeographical Methods" series contains the sources Roscoe used to research and write his 1952 PhD thesis published under this title. Most of the source materials consist of aerial photographs taken during Operation Highjump (1946-1947), from left (LT), right (RT), and vertical (VT) angles. They are almost all labeled with their sector, mission, and run, which corresponds to three geographic areas in Antarctica (AAC, AAE, and AAW), and the organization of photography flights. The series also includes partial and final drafts of Roscoe’s thesis, many of which are aerial and ground level photographs grouped together by topic, edited, and captioned. The series is arranged into two subseries: Sources, and Drafts. The materials are dated circa 1946-1952.

 Sources Subseries 1.1 circa 1946-1952 Scope and Contents

The Sources subseries contains mainly loose aerial photographs taken during Operation Highjump (1946-1947) and Operation Windmill (1948), but also negatives and other documents Roscoe used during his research process. The aerial photographs were originally grouped together and wrapped in paper labels that contained a caption, the geographic sector, run and mission numbers, and the angle of the photograph (labeled as left (LT), right (RT), and vertical (VT)). This information was transferred to the description in the following pattern: [Caption]: [Sector] [Run][Mission][Angle]. Runs and missions are represented as [#M#], with the first number representing the run, the number following “M” is the mission number. This pattern is how the numbers were recorded on the original photographs by the Navy. Sectors used in Operation Highjump reflected three geographic areas of Antarctica: Central (AAC), eastern (AAE), and western (AAW). Caption topics include sea ice, icebergs, meltwater, glacial crevasses, and related geographical features. Dates of the photographs are circa 1946-1947, the date range of Operation Highjump, unless more specific dates were noted on the photograph. Many aerial photographs specifically dated 1948, during Operation Windmill, are physically smaller, colored differently, and appear to be shot from a different angle within the plane. Thus all photographs resembling this size and appearance have been dated circa 1946-1948, to account for this relationship, unless more specific dates were noted on the photograph. Other source documents in this subseries include maps of the sectors, a photograph order list, and copies of Antarctica geography and exploration textbooks pages. The materials are arranged alphabetically by caption, or if a caption was not assigned by the creator, by sector, mission number, or titles based on description and format. Unlabeled aerials are listed at the end. The materials are dated circa 1946-1952.

 10M7 VT aerial 1 1 1946-1947 67 sister VT aerials 1 2 circa 1946-1947 87-122 P 17M21 MW Larse, 57 sister LT: 67M26 LT obliques 1 3 2 1 circa 1946-1947 AAC 1M8 VT aerial 2 2 1946-1947 AAC 2M3 RT obliques; AAW 63M2 obliques and aerials 2 3 1946-1947 AAC 2M11 RT obliques 2 4 1946-1947 AAC 2M15 LT oblique 2 5 circa 1946-1947 AAC 2M15 LT obliques and other unlabeled aerials 2 6 1946-1947 AAC 1MX-Z RT obliques 2 7 1946-1947 AAC flight map negatives 26 1 circa 1949-1952 AAE 3M2 VT; AAE 8M10 VT aerials 2 8 1946-1947 AAE 3M2 VT aerials; AAW 41M19 oblique 2 9 1946-1947 AAE 4M5 RT obliques 2 10 circa 1946-1947 AAE 5M9 RT obliques; AAW 66M 26 LT obliques; AAW 67M26 RT obliques 2 11 1946-1947 AAE 8M10 LT obliques; AAW 53M22 AAW obliques 2 12 1946-1947 AAE 10M12 LT 3 1 1946-1947 AAE 10M12 RT obliques 3 2 circa 1946-1947 AAE 10M12 VT aerials 3 3 1946-1947 AAE 10M14 obliques and aerials 3 4 circa 1946-1947 AAW 1M1 VT aerials 3 5 1947 January 1 AAW 3M5 LT obliques, VT aerials 3 6 circa 1946-1947 AAW 4M4 RT obliques 3 7 circa 1946-1947 AAW 4M4 VT aerial 3 8 circa 1946-1947 AAW 5M4 RT, LT obliques, VT aerials 3 9 circa 1946-1947 AAW 5M4 RT obliques; AAW 4M4 LT, RT obliques; AAW 14M10 obliques 3 10 circa 1946-1947 AAW 5M7 handheld obliques; AAW 32M17 aerial 3 11 circa 1946-1947 AAW 7M4 aerials 3 12 circa 1946-1947 AAW 7M6 LT obliques; AAW 3M5 RT obliques, VT aerials 3 13 1947 AAW 7M6 RT obliques 3 14 1947 AAW 9M6 LT obliques; AAW 9M7 LT obliques 3 15 1947 January 6 AAW 9M7 LT oblique 3 16 1946-1947 AAW 9M15; AAW 3M5 LT obliques 3 17 1946-1947 AAW 10M7 LT, RT, VT obliques and aerials 4 1-6 1947 January 6 AAW 10M7 VT aerials 4 7 circa 1946-1947 AAW 11M8 LT, RT obliques; field ice: AAW 14M10 VT aerial 5 1 1947 AAW 11M17 RT oblique 4 8 1947 AAW 12M8 VT aerials 5 2 circa 1946-1947 AAW 13M9 RT obliques 5 3 1946-1947 AAW 14M10 LT, VT obliques and aerials 5 4 1946-1947 AAW 15M10 obliques 5 5 1946-1947 AAW 15M10 VT aerial 5 6 1946-1947 AAW 18M26 aerial 26 2 circa 1946-1947 AAW 18M26 obliques 5 7-8 1947 March 1-2 AAW 18M26 obliques; 67M26 RT oblique; 66M26 RT obliques 5 9 circa 1946-1947 AAW 18M26 obliques; 67M26 obliques 5 10 1946-1947 AAW 21M12-13, 22M12-13, 23M 12-13, 24M 12-13, 25M 12-13, 26M 12-13 obliques and aerials 5 11 1947 January 28 AAW 21M13 obliques 5 12 circa 1946-1947 AAW 21M24 handheld oblique 5 13 circa 1946-1947 AAW 22M13 obliques; AAW 11M8 obliques 5 14 circa 1946-1947 AAW 22M25 TF68 obliques 5 15 1947 February 27 AAW 23M13 obliques 6 1 1946-1947 AAW 25M14 aerial 6 2 circa 1946-1947 AAW 25M14 LT obliques 6 3 1947 January 28 AAW 25M14 obliques 6 4 circa 1946-1947 AAW 25M14 RT, VT obliques and aerials 6 5-6 1947 January 28 AAW 26M18 LT, RT obliques 6 7 circa 1946-1947 AAW 32M17 obliques; AAW 18M26 LT, RT obliques; AAW 67M26 VT aerials 6 8 7 1-2 1947 AAW 32M17 obliques and aerials 7 3 circa 1946-1947 AAW 34M17 aerials 7 4 1946-1947 AAW 35M18 aerials 7 5 circa 1946-1947 AAW 35M18 obliques and aerials 7 6 circa 1946-1947 AAW 36M18 obliques; AAW 24M14 VT aerials 7 7 1946-1947 AAW 41M19 obliques 7 8 1946-1947 AAW 46M21 LT; AAW 37M18; AAW 21M13 obliques 7 9 1946-1947 AAW 46M21 obliques and aerials 7 10 1946-1947 AAW 48M22 oblique 7 11 circa 1946-1947 AAW 61M24 LT, RT obliques, VT aerials 8 1-3 1947 AAW 63M24 LT obliques 9 1 8 4-5 1947 AAW 63M24 VT; AAE 10M12 RT obliques and aerials 9 2 circa 1946-1947 AAW 63M24 VT aerials 9 3-5 1947 AAW 67M26 obliques 9 6 circa 1946-1947 AAW 68M26 RT obliques and aerials; AAW 69M26 RT obliques 10 1 1947 AAW 69M26 LT obliques; 68M26 LT obliques and aerials; 69M26 VT aerial 10 2 1947 AAW 69M26 VT aerials 10 3 1947 Aerial close-up of bergs calving from land ice: AAE 3M8 obliques 10 4 circa 1946-1947 Alt. above terrain: AAC 1M3 RT oblique 10 5 circa 1946-1947 Area around South Pole: AAC 1M8 LT obliques 10 6 circa 1946-1947 Area of frozen in glacial bergs at foot of glacier; note rough topography, drifted bergs: AAW 21M13 LT, RT obliques, VT aerials 10 7 circa 1946-1947 Bare swept sea ice: AAE 4M5 RT obliques 10 8 circa 1946-1947 Barrier coastline: AAW 11M8 LT, RT, VT obliques and aerials 10 9 1946-1947 Barrier type ice cliff, shows floating ice: AAW 18M26 obliques 10 10 1947 March 1 Bay of Whales entrance, Little America: AAC 1M13 RT; AAC 1M10 LT, RT, VT obliques and aerials 10 11 circa 1946-1947 Bay of Whales entrance, Little America: AAC 1MX-3 VT; AAC 1M16 LT obliques and aerials 10 12 circa 1946-1947 Bay of Whales entrance, Little America: AAC 2MX-2 LT, RT, VT obliques and aerials 10 13 circa 1946-1947 Belts of crevasses look dark from a distance: AAW 4M4 RT oblique 11 1 1946-1947 Bergs frozen in fast ice while calving from crust: AAE 3M2 LT obliques 11 2 1946-1947 Black ice: AAE 11M12 VT aerials 11 3 circa 1946-1947 Black ice forming: AAW 11M48 RT oblique 11 4 circa 1946-1947 Bowers Hills and related mountains, Oaks Crest: AAW 2M3 LT oblique 11 5 1946-1947 Bowman Island; hourglass shape, ice covered, radial cracks, barrier edge, wind effects: AAW 14M19 obliques handheld 11 6 1946-1947 Budd Coast, shelf barrier coastlines: AAW 32M17 LT obliques 11 7 1946-1947 Bunger Lakes: AAW 13M18 LT obliques, handheld obliques 11 8 1947 Bunger Lakes: AAW 24M17; AAW 18M26; AAW 17M21; 67M26 obliques 11 9-10 1947 Bunger Lakes: AAW 39M19 VT aerials, RT obliques 11 11-12 1947 Bunger Lakes area from seaward: AAW 39M19; 41M19 obliques and aerials 12 1 circa 1946-1947 Bungers melt water tidal crack: AAW 36M18 VT aerials 12 2 circa 1946-1947 Calving and tilted icebergs: AAE 1M1 VT aerials 12 3 1946 December 30 Canyons widening into calving ice followed by fast ice and pack: AAE 2M1 VT aerials 12 4 1946-1947 Channel glacier, mountains of exposed rock and snow covered flowlines, bergs: AAE 10M12 RT obliques 12 5 1946-1947 Close pack edge: AAW 12M8 RT oblique 12 6 circa 1946-1947 Cloud formation and shadows: AAW 41M19 LT, RT, VT obliques and aerials 12 7 1946-1947 Clouds and snow texture: AAE 12M14 VT aerials 12 8 1946-1947 Clouds creeping up atop mountains: AAE 12M14 LT obliques 12 9 1946-1947 Clouds show steep glacier slopes, hinge lines form many burgs, small sunspot on lens: AAE 5M9 LT obliques 12 10 1946-1947 Coalescence of glaciers at sea: AAW 4M4 RT obliques 12 11 circa 1946-1947 Coast, fast ice, patch ice, contact: AAE 2M1 LT obliques 12 12 1946-1947 Conglomerate pack ice, clouds over water: AAE 2M1 RT oblique 12 13 circa 1946-1947 Contact shelf ice, canal ice, water: AAE 7M10 RT obliques 12 14 1946-1947 Continental rise under ice caps: AAW 10M10 handheld obliques 12 15 circa 1946-1947 Contrast, frozen melt water snow neve, snow vs. neve: AAW 32M17 VT aerials 12 16 circa 1946-1947 Covered coastline, Mount Siple in background, handhelds: AAE 5M10 obliques; AAE RT, LT obliques; AAW 10M7 RT oblique, VT aerials; AAW 19M26 obliques 12 17 1947 Covered crevasses: AAW 3M5 VT aerial 12 18-19 circa 1946-1947 Crack in sea ice caused by iceberg: AAE 5M9 RT oblique 12 20 circa 1946-1947 Cracks in fast ice: AAW 22M13 LT obliques 12 21 circa 1946-1947 Cracks in fast ice at beginning of breaking away: AAW 7M4 oblique handheld 12 22 1947 January 4 Cracks in fast ice developing because of movement of glacier and glacier bergs: AAW 6M6 oblique 12 23 1946-1947 Cracks in ribbon sea ice, tidal circular and tidal radial cracks about skerries: AAW 11M17 RT, LT obliques 12 24 1947 Cracks in sea ice caused by movement of bergs: AAE 5M9 RT oblique 12 25 circa 1946-1947 Cracks in sea ice, sheer cracks: AAE 9M11 VT aerials 12 26 circa 1946-1947 Crevassed glacier, begs breaking: AAW 15M20 oblique 12 27 1947 February 13 Crevasse (large and small arm): AAE 10M12 LT, RT, VT obliques and aerials 12 28 circa 1946-1947 Crevasse pattern: AAE 2M1 VT aerials 12 29 circa 1946-1947 Crevasse pattern: AAE 7M10 VT aerials 12 30 1946-1947 Crevasse pattern: AAW 5M4 VT aerials 12 31 circa 1946-1947 Crevasse pattern: AAW 7M6 RT obliques, VT aerials 12 32 circa 1946-1947 Crevasse pattern: AAW 9M15 obliques 12 33 1947 January 30 Crevasse pattern: AAW 12M13 oblique 12 34 1947 January 8 Crevasse pattern along barrier edge, note shadows not visible on water: AAW 3M2 VT aerials 13 1 circa 1946-1947 Crevasse pattern along shoreline: AAW 4M4 VT aerials 13 2 1946-1947 Crevasse patterns, disturbed ice: AAW 4M6 obliques 13 3 circa 1946-1947 Crevasse pattern, note two directions: AAW 10M7 LT obliques 13 4 circa 1946-1947 Crevasse pattern, Salen glacier: AAW 46M21 RT oblique 13 5 circa 1946-1947 Crevasse pattern showing snowbridges across many crevasses: AAW 9M7 VT 13 6 1946-1947 Crevasses occur in valley glaciers where they override buried ridges: AAW 5M4 VT aerials 13 7 1947 Criss cross crevasses, differential ice surfaces: VT aerials 13 8 circa 1946-1947 Criss cross crevasse pattern: AAW 49M22 VT aerial 13 9 1946-1947 David Island: AAW 40M19 obliques 13 10 1946-1947 Denman glacier, excellent views of glaciers feeding Shachelton ice shelf plus examples of IS. and monadnocks: AAW 47M21 LT, RT, VT 13 11 1946-1947 Disturbed areas near coastline, glacier, (ice by field): AAW 21M13 VT aerials 13 12 circa 1946-1947 Disturbed ice: AAE 2M1 RT oblique 13 13 1946-1947 Disturbed ice and bergs drifted in: AAW 9M15; AAW 21M13; AAE 10M12 RT obliques 13 14 circa 1946-1947 Disturbed ice pattern: AAW 12M13 obliques 13 15 circa 1946-1947 Disturbed ice pattern which will terminate in glacier bergs whose outline is now invisible: AAW 6M6 VT aerials 13 16 1946-1947 Disturbed ice, radial and concentric wick pattern: AAE 1M1 RT obliques 13 17 circa 1946-1947 Down hill crevasse pattern: AAW 9M7 VT aerials, LT obliques 13 18 circa 1946-1947 Downslope crevasse patterns: AAW 4M4 RT oblique 13 19 circa 1946-1947 Downslope crevasse patterns: AAW 4M4 VT aerials 13 20 circa 1946-1947 Drift ice: AAW 14M10 VT aerials 13 21 1946-1947 Drift ice, ice tongue: AAE 11M12 LT obliques 13 22 circa 1946-1947 Drift ice, stream, and detail, ice edge (sic): AAE 3M8 handheld obliques 13 23 circa 1946-1947 Dry valley and receding glaciers: AAC 2M14 LT obliques 13 24 circa 1946-1947 End view of hinge lines, two mountains on horizon; possible central GP mountains: AAE 5M9 RT obliques 13 25 1946-1947 Example of hard ice with snow or neve in low shots: LT oblique 13 26 1946-1947 Exposed mountain ridge: AAW 43M20 VT aerials 13 27 circa 1946-1947 Exposed mountains, glacial downslope crevasses: AAW 7M4 handheld obliques 13 28 circa 1946-1947 Fast bergs on continental ice cap: AAW 8M12 handheld obliques 13 29 1947 Fast ice breaking up forming close pack ice, large areas of fast ice still intact give first impression as icebergs: AAW 14M10 VT aerial 13 30 circa 1946-1947 Fast ice broken loose from barrier: AAW 11M8 aerials 13 31 1946-1947 Fast ice, clouds and shadows: AAW 14M10 RT obliques 13 32 1946-1947 Fast ice, coastline: AAE 2M1 LT obliques 13 33 1946 December 30 Fast ice moving out to sea: AAW 46M21 RT obliques 13 34 circa 1946-1947 Fast ice, open water, pack ice, note islands: AAW 19M12 LT obliques 13 35 circa 1946-1947 Fast ice, pack ice: AAE 1M1 RT oblique, VT aerials 14 1 circa 1946-1947 Field ice breaking off at huge crack: AAE 2M5 handheld LT oblique 14 2 1947 First pictures of Antartic Land of Lakes: "official vs. navy photographs" oblique and aerial 14 3 1947 April 16 Flora and fauna aerials 14 4 circa 1946-1947 Flow lines and side slope crevasses in main glacier, use for Piedmont: AAW 4M4 LT obliques 14 5 circa 1946-1947 Formation of glacial bergs: AAW 46M21 VT aerials 14 6 1946-1947 Formation of tub bergs: AAE 5M9 VT aerials 14 7 1946-1947 Formation of two kinds of glacial bergs; smooth and crevassed bergs 14 8 1946-1947 Frozen fjords and crevasse pattern: AAE 2M1 RT obliques 14 9 1946-1947 Frozen meltwater: AAW 11M8 VT aerial; AAW 17M21 LT oblique 14 10 1947 Frozen meltwater: AAW 11M8 VT aerials 14 11 1946-1947 Frozen meltwater lakes: AAW 24M14 LT, VT obliques and aerials 14 12 1946-1947 Frozen meltwater pools and streams, note drainage streams: AAW 24M14 VT aerial 14 13 circa 1946-1947 Frozen ridge: AAW 12M8 VT aerials 14 14 1947 Glacial debris deposited by receding glaciers: AAC 1M14 LT obliques 14 15 1946-1947 Glacial exit to seq from Buckle Island: AAW 8M6 RT obliques 14 16 circa 1946-1947 Glacial ice tongue: AAW 12M8 RT oblique 14 17 circa 1946-1947 Glacial ice tongue: AAW 32M17 oblique 14 18 circa 1946-1947 Glacially disturbed ice: AAW 3M5 VT aerials, LT, RT obliques 14 19 circa 1946-1947 Glacier and many icebergs: AAW 11M8 RT obliques 14 20 1946-1947 Glacier and tributaries showing movement and flow lines, exposed mts.: AAW 4M6 handheld oblique 14 21 circa 1946-1947 Glacier crevasse pattern: AAW 5M4VT, AAW 63M24 obliques and aerials 14 22 circa 1946-1947 Glacier debris covered in sea ice, AAW 36M18 VT 14 23 1946-1947 Glacier emptying into open water, small glacial ice tongue: AAW 14M10 RT oblique 14 24 circa 1946-1947 Glacier ice forming, Piedmont shelf barrier: AAE 11M15 handheld oblique 14 25 circa 1946-1947 Glacier pattern in Kemp Coast area: AAW 63M24 LT, RT obliques, VT aerials 14 26 circa 1946-1947 Glacier to sea: AAW 4M4 LT obliques 14 27 1946-1947 Glacierways and fjordways into mountainous coastland: AAW 3M5 handheld obliques 14 28 circa 1946-1947 Glacier with flowlines to sea: AAW 20M23 handheld obliques 14 29 circa 1946-1947 Hanging glacier and receding glacier, note glacial lake: AAC 1M15 LT obliques 14 30 circa 1946-1947 Helen glacier and surrounding area: AAW 46M21 LT, RT, VT obliques and aerials 14 31 circa 1946-1947 Henderson (sic) Island, island as in shelf ice: AAW 47M21 LT obliques 14 32 1946-1947 High wind, can't get in stereo: AAW 15M10 RT, VT obliques and aerials 15 1 1947 January 26 Hinge lines: AAE 7M10 RT obliques 15 2 1946-1947 Hinge lines and view: AAE 8M10 LT obliques 15 3 1946-1947 Hinge lines in Ross shelf ice: AAC 1M13 RT obliques 15 4 circa 1946-1947 Hinge lines into bergs: AAE 8M10 LT obliques 15 5 1946-1947 Hinge lines near Siple: AAE 5M5 LT obliques 15 6 1946-1947 Iceberg overturned: AAW 37M18 VT aerials 15 7 circa 1946-1947 Icebergs partially covered by snowdrifts: AAW 12M8 VT aerials 15 8 1946-1947 Iceberg pattern: AAW 37M18 VT aerials 15 9 1946-1947 Ice capped island; Borradaile Island of the Balleny Island group: AAW 8M6 VT aerials 15 10 1946-1947 Ice capped mountain ridge, easy to fly into in white day: AAW 2M3 RT obliques 15 11 1946-1947 Ice cracks, iceberg ground photographs 26 3 circa 1946-1947 Ice covered coastline, excellent stereo example of tidal crack: AAW 24M14 VT aerials 15 12 1946-1947 Ice covered islands under sea smoke: AAW 15M10 RT, VT obliques and aerials 15 13 1946-1947 Ice field, fast ice: AAW 12M8 LT obliques, VT aerials 15 14 1947 Ice form aerial 26 4 circa 1946-1947 Ice island in ice island berg (sic): AAW 4M4 LT obliques 15 15 circa 1946-1947 Ice tongue formed by glacier descending to sea: AAW 5M4 RT obliques 15 16 circa 1946-1947 Ice tongue in from record glacier; tension in polar record glacier: 68M26 LT, RT, VT obliques and aerials 15 17 1946-1947 Identification of icebergs and small islands from shadows, close pack: AAW 8M6 VT, RT obliques and aerials 15 18 1946-1947 Interesting contrast between frost sea ice and shelf ice: AAW 11M8 VT aerials 15 19 1946-1947 Interesting frozen meltwater streams (note its depth from wearing into the ice sheet) meltwater streams, good example: AAW 64M25 VT aerial 15 20 1946-1947 Interesting pattern of disturbed glacier ice and meltwater pools over land ice: AAW 21M13 RT, VT obliques and aerials 15 21 1946-1947 Interesting pattern of what appears to be sea smoke, but not shown on other prints in run: AAW 12M8 obliques 15 22 circa 1946-1947 Interesting patterns of new ice, paths of bergs, moving black ice cover: AAW 48M22 LT, RT obliques, VT aerials 15 23 1947 Island area near coast: AAW 13M9 RT obliques 15 24 1946-1947 Island or possible coastline: AAW 14M10 RT obliques 15 25 circa 1946-1947 Islands: AAW 29M15 obliques and aerials 15 26 circa 1946-1947 "Islands! Clouds show ice rise, mainland" obliques 15 27 1946-1947 Islands and icebergs, penguin rookery vestfold area: AAW 18M26 obliques 15 28 1947 March 1 Islands near barrier coast: AAW 24M14 LT obliques 15 29 circa 1946-1947 Islands vs. icebergs: AAE 10M14 handheld obliques 16 1 circa 1946-1947 Junction of polar record and polar fracturing berg: 68M26 LT obliques 16 2 1946-1947 Land form (note: snow on windward slope, radiation, and/or windhole) black ice: AAE 11M12 VT aerial 16 3 circa 1946-1947 Large glacier, disturbed ice: AAW 7M6 LT obliques, VT aerials; AAW 12M8 VT aerials 16 4 circa 1946-1947 Large glacier, disturbed ice obliques 16 5 1946-1947 Large iceberg, large tab and small glacier: AAW 11M8 RT obliques; AAE 13M15 VT aerials; AAW 22M13 VT aerials 16 6 1946-1947 Large lead between close pack and cont. glacier, note island: AAW 14M10 RT obliques 16 7 circa 1946-1947 Large meltwater lake: AAW 28M15 LT obliques 16 8 1946-1947 Lead and water sky in background: AAW 11M8 RT obliques 16 9 1946-1947 Lead between close pack and fast ice: AAW 12M8 RT obliques 16 10 circa 1946-1947 Lead between fast ice and pack ice: AAW 6M6 RT obliques; AAW 52M22 obliques 16 11 1947 Lead, open water between fast ice and pack ice: AAW 14M10 LT obliques 16 12 circa 1946-1947 Lindberg Inlet, Ross Shelf: AAC 1M13 RT 16 13 circa 1946-1947 Lines of demarcation: pack ice in field of fast ice: AAW 5M7 handheld obliques 16 14 circa 1946-1947 Lines of demarcation: soft billowy land in shelf ice, smooth frozen over lead, hummocky frozen over loose pack: AAE 1M1 VT; AAE 7M10 VT aerials 16 15 1946-1947 Many tributaries under large glacier: AAW 4M4 LT obliques 16 16 1946-1947 Mawson: AAW 60M24 obliques and aerials 16 17 1946-1947 McMurdo Sound, USS Burton Island, over AT 0628 GCT, Slopes of Erebus: AAC 2M14 LT obliques 16 18 1946-1947 Meltwater: AAW 11M8 RT oblique 16 19 1947 Meltwater pattern: AAW 21M13 VT aerials 16 20 1946-1947 Meltwater ponds in disturbed area: AAW 11M8 RT obliques 16 21 circa 1946-1947 Meltwater pools on land ice, note streams: AAW 21M13 VT aerial 16 22 circa 1946-1947 Meltwater pools on land ice surface, meltwater streams: AAW 9M15 VT obliques and aerials; AAW 24M14 obliques and aerials 16 23 1946-1947 Meltwater stream having soil debris originating from land areas of Bunger Lakes: AAW 35M18 RT obliques, VT aerials 16 24 circa 1946-1947 Meltwater streams and pools, puddles and meltwater streams: AAW 49M22 RT, VT obliques and aerials 16 25 1946-1947 Mountainous coastline, skerries, Piedmont Shelf: AAE 10M14 oblique handhelds 16 26 1947 Mountainous regions in Queen Maud Land, general glacial features and morraines: AAW 55M22 LT, RT obliques 16 27 1946-1947 Mountain peaks above clouds: AAE 12M14 RT oblique 16 28 1946-1947 Mountain range in Kemp coast area: AAW 63M24 LT, RT obliques, VT aerials 16 29 1946-1947 Mountain range in Queen Maud land (Princess Ragnhild coast): AAW 49M22 LT obliques 17 1 circa 1946-1947 Mountains: AAW 34M17 obliques 17 2 circa 1946-1947 Mountains on Charcot (sic) Island, note clouds building up on windward sides: AAE 12M14 LT obliques 17 3 1946-1947 Mt. Gauss area: AAW 17M21 RT obliques, LT obliques 17 4-5 1947 Mt. Gauss area: AAW 37M18 LT 17 6 1946-1947 Mt. Grace McKinley, Edsel Ford range, note R4D of flight 7 in distance: AAC 1M7A RT obliques 17 7 circa 1946-1947 Mt. Piedmont ridge disappearing into sea: AAE 11M15 handheld obliques 17 8 circa 1946-1947 New ice forming: AAW 21M24 handheld oblique 17 9 circa 1946-1947 New ice forming, contrasting black ice, drift with whole ice: AAW 12M8 RT obliques, VT aerials 17 10 circa 1946-1947 New ice forming - possible pancake ice in area, various stages in formation of new ice, black ice, black ice fractured by shocks, brosh, pancakes, growlers and bergy bits navigating through mass: AAW 66M26 VT aerials 17 11 circa 1946-1947 New land ice versus old ice, neve field, note drainage, note pattern of tarn: AAW 10M7 VT aerials 17 12 1946-1947 Nunatak: AAW 50M22 RT obliques 17 13 circa 1946-1947 Nunatak and radiation wind drift pattern: AAW 9M7 VT aerial 17 14 circa 1946-1947 New or young ice, interesting pattern of sea ice: AAW 12M8 VT aerial 17 15 circa 1946-1947 Opening in sea ice: AAE 4M5 RT oblique 17 16 circa 1946-1947 Open pack with black ice forming: AAW 69M26 RT oblique, VT aerial 17 17 circa 1946-1947 Outer edge at fast ice break: AAW 11M8 RT obliques 17 18 circa 1946-1947 Pack GA type, new ice forming in (sic) clear water in lea of bergs, glacier, flowlines, exposed rock: AAW 21M24 RT obliques 17 19 1947 Pack ice just breaking up: AAW 21M24 handheld obliques 17 20 circa 1946-1947 Pack ice, sharp and jagged, freshly broken: AAW 10M10 RT oblique 17 21 1947 Pack ice type: close thin: AAE 5M9 VT aerials 17 22 circa 1946-1947 Partially exposed bluffs on shoreline, fast ice: AAE 5M10 handheld obliques 17 23 1946-1947 Partially exposed bluffs on shoreline, open water, downslope crevasses: AAE 5M10 handheld obliques 17 24 circa 1946-1947 Part of Queen Maud Range: AAC 2M3 VT aerials 17 25 circa 1946-1947 Pattern of fast sea ice, old and new ice, ridges formed by winds: AAW 10M7 VT aerials; AAW 39M19 obliques; AAE 1M15 LT obliques 17 26 circa 1946-1947 Pattern of snow covered mountains with cirques in foreground: AAW 9M7 LT obliques 17 27 1946-1947 Peaks of mountains snow covered at all distances, singular ice surfaces: AAE 2M1 RT obliques 17 28 1946-1947 Peculiar glacier formation caused by mountains upstream, large ice island berg to break away, ice capped island: AAW 4M4 LT, RT obliques, VT aerials 17 29 circa 1946-1947 Photographic Interpretation Center photographic laboratory microfile order form and microfilm textbook pages 26 5 1947 Piedmont glacier ice cap: AAW 5M17 obliques handheld 17 30 1946-1947 Piedmont ice: AAW 69M26 RT obliques 18 1 circa 1946-1947 Possible snow covered mountain ridge: AAW 55M23 VT aerials 18 2 circa 1946-1947 Possible tidal cracks along coast: AAW 24M14 LT, VT obliques and aerials 18 3 circa 1946-1947 Pressure ice: AAW 14M10 LT obliques 18 4 1946-1947 Pressure ridge (excellent), crevasse pattern, sea ice, crevasse patterns: AAE 3M2 VT aerials 18 5 1946-1947 Print order list and notes 26 6 1948 Ranvik Bay, Svenner Shore: AAW 67M26 LT, RT obliques 18 6-8 1947 March 1 Receding valley glacier, note hanging glaciers and Mt. Erebus in background: AAC 1M14 RT obliques 18 9 circa 1946-1947 Review: AAW 18M26 LT obliques and aerials 18 10 1947 Rift of ice: AAE 12M14 VT aerials 18 11 circa 1946-1947 Rock outcrop: AAW 29M15 RT obliques 18 12 1946-1947 Sastrugi: at 700': AAC 1MX-2 VT aerials 18 13 circa 1946-1947 Sastrug: pattern: AAW 9M7 VT aerials 18 14 1947 Sastrug: pattern from 2200' alt.: AAW 18M12 LT, RT obliques, VT aerials 18 15 circa 1946-1947 Sastrug: pattern from 2600' alt.: AAW 65M25 VT aerial 18 16 circa 1946-1947 Sea ice contrast, black and white: AAW 37M18 LT obliques, VT aerials 18 17 circa 1946-1947 Sea ice covered, young ice, ice formation and cracks: AAW 20M23 LT, RT handheld obliques 18 18 1947 Sea ice cracks, bridged cracks: AAW 6M6 VT aerials 19 1 circa 1946-1947 Sea ice, fast ice pattern: AAW 11M8 LT, RT obliques, VT aerial 19 2 circa 1946-1947 Sea ice: nearest thing to crevasse in, shear, unusually thick sea ice: AAW 6M6 VT aerials 19 3 circa 1946-1947 Sea ice pattern, close pack breaking up: AAE 13M15 aerials 19 4 circa 1946-1947 Sea ice: solid but revealed by bergs: AAE 12M14 VT aerial 19 5 circa 1946-1947 Shadow contrast from mountains in the Queen Maud Range: AAC 2M3 RT obliques, VT aerials 19 6 circa 1946-1947 Sharp snow and rock ridges, glaciers and berg filled with clouds: AAW 2M3 RT obliques 19 7 1947 Shelf barrier with and without calving bergs, tab bergs: AAE 11M15 handheld oblique 19 8 1946-1947 Shorelines: cliff type, ice capped rock cliff, shoreline: AAW 4M4 LT oblique 19 9 1946-1947 Shorelines: contacts, shore (under ice), shelf and sea: AAE 11M12 RT obliques 19 10 1946-1947 Shorelines: parallel crevasses, ice movement offshore, skim ice forming on sea: AAE 11M12 RT obliques 19 11 1946-1947 Showing bergs calving off hinge lines: AAE 5M9 RT oblique 19 12 1946-1947 Showing clouds and cloud shadows: 1M18 RT obliques 19 13 1946-1947 Showing remarkable set of bergs: AAE 5M9 VT aerials 19 14 1946-1947 Skerries, sea ice, shoreline, islands: AAW 21M24 handheld obliques 19 15 circa 1946-1947 Skim ice forming in leads: AAE 8M12 handheld oblique 19 16 circa 1946-1947 Small berg indicates sea ice: AAW 4M4 VT aerial 19 17 circa 1946-1947 Small ice plateau: AAW 9M7 LT obliques 19 18 1946-1947 Snow covered crevasse pattern: AAW 15M10 VT aerials 19 19 1946-1947 Snow vs. neve: AAW 21M13 VT aerials 19 20 circa 1946-1947 Snow vs. neve: AAW 35M18 VT aerials 19 21 1946-1947 Sorsdal glacier: glacial ice tongue: AAW 67M26 RT obliques 19 22 circa 1946-1947 Sortie of new ice intermittent with tidal cracks along: AAW 25M14 LT, RT, VT obliques and aerials 19 23 1946-1947 Special selections: 68M26 RT, VT obliques and aerials 19 24 1946-1947 Steep glacier into sea: AAW 4M4 RT obliques 19 25 circa 1946-1947 Steep slope indicated only by crevasse: AAW 2M3 VT aerials 19 26 circa 1946-1947 Streamers: AAW 56M23 LT obliques, VT aerials 19 27 1947 Sunspot in lens: AAW 23M13 oblique; AAE 3M2 VT aerials 19 28 1946-1947 Svenner Shore: AAW 67M26 LT obliques 19 29 1947 March 1 Tension crevasses due to a change in the level of underlying lands: AAW 5M4 RT, VT obliques and aerials 19 30 1946-1947 Tension crevasses on glacial bergs frozen in fast ice covered by snow: AAW 21M13 VT aerials 19 31 1946-1947 Textbook page copies picturing surface features with captions, prints, and negatives 26 7 circa 1949-1952 TF 34 Knox-Budd coasts and Haswell Island 26 8-9 circa 1948 TF 39 all survey points at Peter 1 Island and Neny Fjord, handheld obliques and surface photos 27 1-3 1946-1948 TF 39 handheld obliques of Little America 27 4-5 1946-1948 Tidal cracks and ridges: AAW 39M19 VT aerials; AAW 21M13 aerials; AAW 24M14 aerials 19 32 circa 1946-1947 Tidal cracks, enlargement of, during melting of trapped ice: AAW 32M17 VT aerials 19 33 circa 1946-1947 Tidal cracks radiation from islands: AAW 32M17 RT obliques 19 34 circa 1946-1947 Tributary glacier through mountain pass: AAW 4M4 RT obliques 19 35 circa 1946-1947 Truncated bergs, form of glacial: AAE 9M11 RT, VT obliques and aerials 19 36 1946-1947 Typical glacier area: AAW 25M14 VT aerials 20 1 1946-1947 Typical mountainous shoreline of Charcot Island: Piedmont Shelf on end: AAE 9M13 handhelds obliques and aerials 20 2 1947 February 8 Typical ridge of mountains, base on windward, snow on leaward slopes: AAW 4M4 VT aerials 20 3 1946-1947 Valley in ice, crevasse patterns: AAE 2M1 RT obliques 20 4 circa 1946-1947 Varving effects of drift in ice: AAW 11M8 VT aerial 20 5 1946-1947 View of the Continental Plateau, Sastrugi: 4M7A LT, VT obliques and aerials 20 6 1946-1947 Water, sky: AAW 11M8 LT, RT obliques 20 7 1946-1947 Water, sky: AAW 33M17 RT obliques 20 8 circa 1946-1947 Wind features of ice cap near rock outcrops, radiation and wind hollow around rock outcrop: AAW 15M20 handheld aerial 20 9 1946-1947 Wind holes of angle to crevasse: AAE 10M12 VT aerials 20 10 1946-1947 Wind ridges over crevasses: AAW 7M6 RT oblique 20 11 circa 1946-1947 "What is the proper term for this glacial feature": AAW 15M10 LT, RT, VT obliques and aerials 20 12 1946-1947 Wreck of PBM and survivors: AAE 3M8 handheld obliques and aerials 20 13 1946-1947 Unlabeled aerials 20 14 27 6 1946-1947 Unlabeled obliques 20 15 28 1-3 1946-1947 Unlabeled obliques and aerials 20 16-17 1946-1947 Drafts Subseries 1.2 circa 1946-1952 Scope and Contents

The Drafts subseries contains aerial and ground level photographs taken during Operation Highjump (1946-1947) and Operation Windmill (1948), of Antarctic surface features that have been cut, outlined, stapled over with onion sheet tracings, or captioned with an accompanying index card. Many of the caption cards contain caption or figure numbers that refer back to the key of surface features Roscoe created as part of his thesis. Parts of this index of keys are contained in this subseries, as well as surface feature charts, diagrams, and hand-drawn maps. Topics of photographs include shelf and sea ice, icebergs, coastlines, meltwater, clouds, and glaciers. The materials are arranged alphabetically by caption, or if a caption was not assigned by the creator, by sector, mission number, or titles based on description and format. The materials date from circa 1946-1952.

 AAW 11M8, AAE 10M14, AAW 4M4 VT, AAE 14M15 VT, AAW 5M4 obliques and aerials 21 1 circa 1946-1952 AAW 24M14, AAC 1M15 VT, AAC 1MX-2, AAE 9M11 VT, AAW 21M24, other unlabeled RT, obliques and aerials 21 2 circa 1946-1952 AAW 46M21 RT, AAW 7M6 RT oblique and number 34 caption card 21 3 circa 1946-1952 AAW 63M24 RT obliques 21 4 1947 February 26 Antarctic phenomena: AAW 18M36 RT obliques 21 5 circa 1946-1952 Antarctic phenomena: Clouds and CI. Sh.: AAE 12M14 LT; AAE 5M9 LT obliques 21 6 circa 1946-1952 Antarctic phenomena: Clouds and CI. Sh.: AAW 41M19 aerials 21 7 circa 1946-1952 Antarctic phenomena: Cloud shadows: AAW 4M4 RT obliques 21 8 circa 1946-1952 Antarctic phenomena: Cloud texture vs. snow and ice: AAE 12M14 VT aerials 21 9 circa 1946-1952 Antarctic phenomena: Reflection of an ice drift in still water: AAW 11M17 obliques 21 10 circa 1946-1952 Antarctic phenomena: Sun and sun reflection in camera lens: AAE 3M2 RT; AAW 23M13 LT obliques 21 11 circa 1946-1952 Antarctic phenomena: unlabeled surface and obliques 21 12 circa 1946-1952 "Anarctic surface trafficability" chart 28 4 1948-1952 Bay of Whales area 28 5 circa 1946-1952 Caption #24-25, Icebergs calving from pressure, wave shelf ice, AAE 9M11 RT, VT obliques and aerials 21 13 circa 1946-1952 Caption #26, two types of glacier bergs calving from the same glacier: AAW 3M5 VT aerials 21 14 circa 1946-1952 Caption #27, formation of highly crevassed glacial icebergs: AAW 6M6 VT aerials 21 15 circa 1946-1952 Caption #28, Rough ice topography: AAW 46M21 VT aerials 21 16 circa 1946-1952 Caption #29, small icebergs: AAW 11M8 VT 21 17 1946-1952 Caption #30, Glacial ice tongue: 11M9 aerials 21 18 1946-1952 Caption #32-A, large iceberg calved from a glacial tongue, floating out to join the pack: AAW 6M6 RT obliques 28 6 circa 1946-1952 Caption #40, AAW 10M7 VT aerials 21 19 1946-1952 Cloud texture vs. snow and ice mts above clouds: AAE 12M14 RT obliques 21 20 circa 1946-1952 Crevasses: AAE 9M11 VT aerials 21 21 circa 1946-1952 Crevasses: AAE 10M12 LT oblique 21 22 circa 1946-1952 Crevasses: AAW 3M5 aerials 21 23 circa 1946-1952 Crevasses: AAW 3M5 VT, AAW 10M7 VT aerials 21 24 circa 1946-1952 Crevasses: AAW 7M6 VT aerials 21 25 1946-1952 Crevasses: AAW 10M7 VT aerials 21 26 circa 1946-1952 Crevasses: AAW 36M18 RT 21 27 1946-1952 Crevasses: Caption #37: AAW 5M4 VT aerials 21 28 1946-1952 Crevasses: Caption #38: AAW 4M4 VT aerial 21 29 1946-1952 Crevasses: Caption #39: AAW 4M4 VT aerials 21 30 1946-1952 Crevasse: Caption #41-A-13: AAE 10M12 LT, VT obliques and aerials 22 1 1946-1952 Crevasses: Caption #42: AAW 22M13 VT aerials 22 2 circa 1946-1952 Crevasses: Caption #43, large tension rift in shelf ice: AAW 36M18 RT obliques 22 3 1946-1952 Crevasses: Caption #45: AAW 7M6 VT aerials 22 4 circa 1946-1952 Crevasses: Caption #48-53: AAE 10M12 VT aerials 22 5 circa 1946-1952 Exposed land and coastlines: AAC 1M3A VT; AAW 66M26 RT; AAW 35M18 RT; AAE 2M1 RT; AAW 2M3 LT obliques and aerials 22 6 circa 1946-1952 Exposed land and coastlines: AAW 5M4 obliques and aerials 22 7 circa 1946-1952 Exposed land and coastlines: AAW 11M17; AAW 4M4 LT obliques and aerials 22 8 circa 1946-1952 Exposed land and coastlines: AAW 18M26 obliques 22 9 circa 1947-1952 Exposed land and coastlines: AAW 692M6; AAW 4M4 VT aerials 22 10 circa 1946-1952 Exposed land and coastlines: Figure #18, Taylor Glacier, AAC 1M15 RT oblique 22 11 circa 1946-1952 Exposed land and coastlines: Figure #20, retreating glacier: AAC 1M15 LT oblique 22 12 circa 1946-1952 Exposed land and coastlines: Figure #21, four large cirques, cretes, cols and a major tributary glacier: AAW 5M4 LT, VT obliques and aerials 22 13 circa 1946-1952 Exposed land and coastlines: Figure #29, late summer view of Bunger Lakes tarns and snowdrift ice: AAW 39M19 VT aerials 22 14 circa 1946-1952 Exposed land and coastlines: surface photographs 28 7 circa 1946-1952 Figures #2-3 captions and photos from British National Antarctic Expedition 28 8 1948-1952 Figure #6-7 captions and photographs of cameras 28 9 1948-1952 Figure #10 caption and 2M3 VT diagram 28 10 1948-1952 Figure #11 caption: AAW 11M17 oblique 22 15 circa 1947-1952 Figure #25: AAW 32M17 VT 22 16 circa 1946-1952 Figure #32 aerials and caption card 22 17 circa 1946-1952 Figure #30: Piedmont glacier at Neny Fjord caption and photo 28 11 1948-1952 Figure #33 aerials and caption card 22 18 circa 1946-1952 Floeberg, weathered berg: AAE 13M15 VT aerial 22 19 circa 1946-1952 Glaciers: Figure #13-15, Antarctica geographic diagrams 28 12 1948-1952 Glaciers: Figure #16 caption, AAW 4M4 LT obliques 22 20 1946-1952 Glaciers: Figure #19 caption: AAC 2M14 LT obliques 22 21 1946-1952 Glaciers: Figure #23 caption: AAW 39M19 VT aerials 22 22 1946-1952 Glaciers: Figure #24 12M9 22 23 1946-1952 Glaciers: Figure #31 caption, unlabeled obliques 22 24 1946-1952 Icebergs: 2M15 oblique 22 25 1946-1952 Icebergs: Caption #31, loaf shaped bergs calving, AAE 5M9 VT 22 26 1946-1952 Icebergs: Caption #32-B: AAW 4M4 LT obliques 22 27 1947-1952 Icebergs: Caption #32-C, small ice capped islands: AAE 10M14 obliques 22 28 1946-1952 Icebergs: caption #32-D, ground photographs of an ice-capped rock 28 13 1946-1952 Icebergs: caption #32-E 14M9 oblique 28 14 1946-1952 Icebergs: Caption unnumbered, ice tongue: AAC 2M15 RT, VT obliques and aerials 22 29 1946-1952 Ice, neve, snow, and drifts: AAW 35M18 VT; AAW 63M24 VT; AAW 21M13 VT; AAW 19M22 23 1 circa 1947-1952 Index views 23 2 circa 1946-1952 Introduction and index 28 15 1949-1952 Keys negatives 29 1-2 1951 June 17 Keys prints 29 3-4 1951 June 17 Page proofs key 1-113 30 1 circa 1949-1952 Page proofs key 114-168 30 2 circa 1949-1952 Plate 3-4 captions, figure 4-5 and 8-9 captions, aerial cameras and snow block photos 30 3 circa 1948-1952 Radiation and meltwater: AAE 10M12 VT aerials 23 3 circa 1946-1952 Radiation and meltwater: AAW 12M8 aerials 23 4 circa 1946-1952 Radiation and meltwater: AAW 15M20; AAW 35M18 obliques and aerials 23 5 circa 1946-1952 Radiation and meltwater: AAW 24M14 VT aerials 23 6 circa 1946-1952 Radiation and meltwater: AAW 35M18VT aerials 23 7 circa 1946-1952 Radiation and meltwater: AAW 49M22 VT aerials 23 8 circa 1946-1952 Sastrugi: AAC 1M15 VT, AAW 17M11 VT; AAW 6M6 VT; AAE 7M10 VT; AAW 18M12 VT aerials 23 9 circa 1946-1952 Sastrugi: AAW 35M18 VT; AAW 7M6 VT; 1MX-2 VT; AAW 65M25 VT; AAW 4M4 VT; AAW 9M7; AAC 1M7A VT aerials 23 10 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: AAE VT; AAW 25M14 obliques and aerials 23 11 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: AAW 12M8 VT aerials 23 12 circa 1947-1952 Sea ice and shape: 8M6 23 13 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice cover, consolidated: AAE 13M15 VT aerials 23 14 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice cover, size and thickness: AAW 66M26 aerials 23 15 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: cracks caused by movements of bergs as ice thins and becomes rotten: AAE 5M9 RT low obliques 23 16 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: crack that may eventually become a lead through a field of consolidated ice: AAE 4M5 RT obliques 23 17 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: crack widens to become lead: AAW 17M11 VT aerials 23 18 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: "difference between a shear polynya and a short fat crack is merely academic: AAW 21M13 VT aerials 23 19 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice (formation and age): AAE 11M12 VT aerials 23 20 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice (formation and age): AAW 48M22 VT; AAC 2M15 LT; AAW 15M10 VT obliques and aerials 23 21 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice (formation and age): AAW 66M26 VT aerials 24 1 circa 1947-1952 Sea ice (formation and age): AAW 69M26 VT aerials 24 2 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice (formation and age): black ice, flat surface: AAW 21M24 obliques 24 3 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice (formation and age): black ice, water: AAW 69M26 obliques 24 4 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice (formation and age): black rock island, black ice consolidated field, obliques 24 5 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice (formation and age): AAE 3M2 VT aerials 24 6 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice (formation and age): consolidated from small floes, block ice: AAC 2MX-2 aerials 24 7 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice (formation and age): cover (consolidated) and broken shattering into blocks: AAW 66M26 aerials 24 8 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice (formation and age): pancake ice: AAW 48M22 obliques 24 9 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice (formation and age): young ice, wreckage, shelf ice: AAW 12M8 VT aerials 24 10 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: general description, fast ice, pack ice 24 11 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: lead developing between pack ice and fast as pack moves out: AAW 5M7 obliques 24 12 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: leads refroze and solidly covered with winter ice: AAE 9M11 VT aerials 24 13 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: mosaic, condensed puddling: AAW 14M10 24 14 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: polynyas and pressure ridges: AAW 14M10 VT aerials 24 15 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: rotten: AAE 13M15 VT aerials 24 16 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: scattered: AAW 60M24 aerials 24 17 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: shear crack, note displacement of pressure ridge: AAE 9M11 VT aerials 24 18 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: small floes: 20m15 24 19 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: small floes, age, flat surface: AAW 12M8 obliques 24 20 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): 39M19 aerials 24 21 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): AAE 1M1 VT aerials, unlabeled ground photographs and negatives 24 22 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): AAE 5M9 VT aerials 24 23 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): AAW 4M4 VT aerials 24 24 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): AAW 9M15 oblique 24 25 circa 1947-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): AAW 21M13 aerials 24 26 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): black colored, meltwater stream and puddles on sea ice covered lightly by morraine: 9M7 obliques 24 27 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): blue hard ice and some sort of partially melted, draining to the left: 7M6 aerials 24 28 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): blue hard ice resulting from meltwater of previous summer: 9M7 obliques 24 29 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): character of young winter ice: AAW 11M8 VT aerials 24 30 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): flat surface: AAW 14M10 VT aerials 24 31 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): ice cover surrounding the polynyas: AAW 11M8 LT obliques 24 32 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): ice ridge: AAW 11M8 VT aerials 24 33 circa 1947-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): islands and sherries: AAW 10M7 VT aerials 24 34 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): meltwater stream on sea ice (blue color): 7M6 obliques 24 35 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): meltwater streams in sea ice surface: 9M7 obliques 24 36 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): rippled: AAW 4M4 VT aerials 25 1 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): rotting and full of puddles: AAW 25M14 VT aerials 25 2 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): rotting and full of puddles aerials 25 3 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): showing surface character of solid winter ice: 18M13 obliques 25 4 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): winter ice: AAW 12M8 VT aerials 25 5 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: (surface conditions): unlabeled aerials 25 6 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: tidal crack before barrier, note calving: AAW 24M14 VT aerials 25 7 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: tidal cracks: AAW 11M8 VT aerials 25 8 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: tidal cracks form around sherries: AAW 32M17 RT obliques 25 9 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: tidal ridge cracks: 7M6; AAW 12M8 RT obliques and aerials 25 10 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: tidal ridge cracks: AAW 36M18 VT aerial 25 11 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: tinnebergs, growlers, close ice, brash, blocks: AAE 14M15 VT aerials 25 12 circa 1947-1952 Sea ice: torsion cracks: AAE 9M11 VT aerials 25 13 circa 1946-1952 Sea ice: unconformity between two types of ice, hummocky and flat: AAE 1M1 VT aerials 25 14 circa 1946-1952 Section I: Introduction: the South Pole caption: AAC 1M8 RT oblique 25 15 circa 1946-1952 Shelf ice: advancing ice in the Bay of Whales aerials 25 16 circa 1946-1952 Shelf ice: a tension crevasse widened into an inlet: AAC 1M13 obliques 25 17 circa 1946-1952 Shelf ice: fast sea ice, breaking up at point of contact with barrier: AAW 11M8 VT aerials 25 18 circa 1947-1952 Shelf ice: maps and aerials 30 4 circa 1946-1952 Shelf ice: not always a smooth surface, crevasses common: AAW 32M17 VT aerials 25 19 circa 1946-1952 Shelf ice: phenomenon described as pressure waves or hinge line valleys: AAE 7M10 RT, VT: 8M10 LT obliques and aerials 25 20 circa 1946-1952 Shelf ice: shelf ice and barrier in background, one year old fast ice under pressure: 18M13 obliques 25 21 circa 1946-1952 Shelf ice: tabular icebergs calving: AAE 11M15 oblique 25 22 circa 1946-1952 Shelf ice: unlabeled oblique and surface photographs 25 23 circa 1946-1952 Steep, inaccessible cliff camp and ship photographs and caption 30 5 circa 1946-1952 White day at Little America surface photographs 30 6 circa 1946-1952 Operation Highjump and Windmill Series 2 circa 1946-1948 Scope and Contents

The Operation Highjump and Windmill series contains photographs not related to mapping the landscape, such as camps and camp office scenes, planes, ships, general landscape views, and Antarctic fauna. It is unclear which expeditions these were taken on. It also contains personal and official correspondence Roscoe received during Operation Highjump, and four volumes of the official Naval report of Operation Highjump. Materials are arranged chronologically, and alphabetically thereafter by title based on captions assigned by the creator or topics and formats assigned by the processor. Materials are dated circa 1946-1948.

 Correspondence received 30 7 1946-1947 Admiral Byrd photographs 30 8 circa 1946-1947 American flag at camp photograph 30 9 circa 1946-1947 Ice and landscape photographs 30 10 circa 1946-1947 Personal cachets sent from Little America photograph 30 11 circa 1946-1947 Animal photographs 30 12 1946-1948 Boating photographs 30 13 1946-1948 Camp oblique photograph 25 24 1946-1948 Camp photographs 31 1-4 1946-1948 Ice and landscape photos 31 5-6 1946-1948 Landscape photographs 32 1 1946-1948 Ship photographs 32 2 1946-1948 Antarctic animals photographs 32 3 circa 1946-1948 Camp and landscape photos 32 4 circa 1946-1948 Camp and ship photographs 32 5-6 circa 1946-1948 Camp, ice photographs 32 7 circa 1946-1948 Neny Fjord photographs 32 8 circa 1946-1948 Little America number 4 photographs 32 9 1947 Bunger Lakes photographs taken by Krause 32 10 1948 January 12 Report of Operation Highjump: U.S. Navy Antarctic Development Project 1947 Volume 1-4 34 1-4 1948 July 12 Other Career Series 3 1944-1946, circa 1980s-2003 Scope and Contents

The Other Career series contains correspondence from Roscoe’s period of military service at the Photo Interpretation Center, Washington D.C., dated 1944-1946. It also contains a Topcon stereoscope viewer and its accompanying tools and parts, used to view the aerial photographs, dated circa 1980s. Lastly, it contains oral history interview recordings, transcripts, and other documents related to an interview between John H. Roscoe and Brian Shoemaker of the American Polar Society on September 18, 2002, and December 10, 2002. Major topics of the interview include details about Operation Highjump, Windmill, and Deep Freeze in Antarctica, an examination of Admiral Richard Byrd's role in Antarctic explorations, and Roscoe's role in interpreting aerial photography in Antarctica. The interview covers personal and professional challenges in Antarctic exploration, the contributions of various participants in Antarctic exploration, and Roscoe's post-polar career at Lockheed and elsewhere. This interview was part of a series of polar oral histories sponsored by the American Polar Society and Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program, with funding from the National Science Foundation. This subseries is arranged chronologically, with oral history material arranged at the end in the order in which they were created during the interview process. The materials are dated 1944-1946 and circa 1980s-2003.

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Oral History transcript also available online.

 Correspondence received while stationed at the Photo Interpretation Center, Washington D.C. 33 1-2 1944-1946 Topcon stereoscope viewer 1 circa 1980s Stereoscope parts 36 1-2 35 1-3 circa 1980s Stereoscope lenses 35 5, 7 circa 1980s Stereoscope lens polishing cloth 33 3 circa 1980s Stereoscope tools 35 4, 6 circa 1980s Oral history interview notes, correspondence and interview outlines Polar Oral History 5 1 2002-2003 Oral history interview recording Polar Oral History 8 1-3 2002 September, December Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements Audiocassette; Approximate run time: unknown Audiocassette; Approximate run time: unknown Audiocassette; Approximate run time: unknown Oral history interview recording copy Polar Oral History 7 1-3 2002 September, December Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements Audiocassette; Approximate run time: unknown Audiocassette; Approximate run time: unknown Audiocassette; Approximate run time: unknown Transcript Polar Oral History 5 2 circa 2003 Existence and Location of Copies

PDF also available online.