Guide to the Shadow Box Created by Susan Starkey Commemorating Lois Jones' Antarctica Research Expedition in 1969-1970, circa 2000 SPEC.PA.56.5026 Finding aid prepared by Ashleigh Minor Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections
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2019 August This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2019-08-22T09:04-0400 English Describing Archives: A Content Standard Shadow Box Created by Susan Starkey Commemorating Lois Jones' Antarctica Research Expedition in 1969-1970 SPEC.PA.56.5026 Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections 1 0.5 Cubic feet circa 2000 Lois M. Jones was an American geochemist who led the first all-women expedition to Antarctica from 1969-1970. Susan Clark Starkey attended the Ohio State University High School in the 1950s, where she met fellow student Lois Jones. The two remained lifelong friends. The Shadow Box Created by Susan Starkey Commemorating Lois Jones' Antarctica Research Expedition in 1969-1970 contains five mounted items inside the frame: a photograph of the research team at the South Pole in 1969 or 1970; an envelope autographed by members of the first all-women South Pole expedition team with a 'Southern Victoria Land 1969-1970' cachet mailed to Susan Starkey in 1969; a photograph of an adelie penguin on Ross Island with a written holiday greeting created by Lois Jones in January 1970; and two rocks collected by Lois Jones during the South Pole research trip. The rocks are numbered to correspond with Jones' research notes: one is speckled black and white, and the other is triangular, flat, and dark gray with 'WV-3R' written on it. The shadow box was assembled circa 2000. (1) framed item English Starkey, Susan Acquisitions Information

Accession No. PA.2019.0004: Susan Starkey, 2019 May.

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 Biographical Note

Lois M. Jones (1935-2000) was an American geochemist who led the first all-women expedition to Antarctica from 1969-1970. Her Ohio State University team spent several weeks doing fieldwork in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys region, and some of them, including Jones, became the first women in history to reach the South Pole.

Susan Clark Starkey attended the Ohio State University High School in the 1950s, where she met fellow student Lois Jones. The two remained lifelong friends. Starkey planned Jones' funeral in 2000, including collecting memorials from Jones' friends.

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The Shadow Box Created by Susan Starkey Commemorating Lois Jones' Antarctica Research Expedition in 1969-1970 contains five mounted items inside the frame: a photograph of the research team at the South Pole in 1969 or 1970; an envelope autographed by members of the first all-women South Pole expedition team with a 'Southern Victoria Land 1969-1970' cachet mailed to Susan Starkey in 1969; a photograph of an adelie penguin on Ross Island with a written holiday greeting created by Lois Jones in January 1970; and two rocks collected by Lois Jones during the South Pole research trip. The rocks are numbered to correspond with Jones' research notes: one is speckled black and white, and the other is triangular, flat, and dark gray with 'WV-3R' written on it. The shadow box was assembled circa 2000.

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