Binder 7: Wabag Base Camp - north Enga, September-November 1938.

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Subseries 7

Immediate source of acquisition:

Pat Walsh's collection of papers and photographs was destroyed in a Brisbane basement during the 1974 flood, but the Walsh papers and photographs in this collection were fortuitously preserved among other records. The papers were given to Jim Taylor in 1940, who took them to Sydney while writing his report on the Hagen-Sepik Patrol, then gave them to his nephew, Russell Robinson. At Taylor's request, in 1986 Robinson lent them to Bill Gammage for his book about the patrol, The sky travellers: journeys in New Guinea 1938-39 (MUP 1998), then donated them to the Library. Walsh made several sets of these photographs but only John Black's copies have survived. Taylor's copies and the official sets were lost during World War II; Walsh's copies were lost in the Brisbane flood. John Black's set of the photographs was lent to Gammage in 1987, on condition that ultimately they should be given to the Library.

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