Assorted items, mainly unidentified photographs: Australian alpine areas, Twynam, Donna Buang, caves etc., n.d.

Containers:

Box 15 (MS 10563)

Component identifier:

File 174

Content Summary:

Unidentified black-and-white photographs. Subjects include herbaceous flowering plants, rocks, large trees, caves, jagged peaks [New Guinea?]. Includes one slightly larger print of road with mountains in background, numbered L17529 and carrying stamp of Australian News and Information Bureau item.

Contact prints labelled on reverse. Sheet one is labelled "Roll 6: 14". Sheet two is labelled with some photos as plates and others as "Twynam". Sheet three is labelled with one photo as "Twy". Subjects include mountains with road [aerial shots?], sedan, land rover, exposed rock face [laminated peat deposit?], snow patches, alpine landscapes [Australia?]. See larger versions of some photos in file 173.

Labelled photographs. Three copies of photo labelled as "Eucalyptus Regnans, Donna Buang Rd, 4/55" showing sedan driving on road. Two prints of mid-summer snow, Mt. Kosciusko and skiers on Mt. Lee, New South Wales, numbered on reverse and carrying stamp of Australian News and Information Bureau.

Black-and-white photographs, most numbered on reverse. Two photos numbered 1/- (possibly from collection 1). Photos numbered in Roman numerals. One photo numbered C7: 36. Four un-numbered photos. Subjects include open forest, mountains, rocky ground, herbfields, densely wooded slopes, echidna, wombat, woman (sitting on ground) with child and snowfield in background, jagged peaks with leafless trees in foreground. Includes duplicates.

Printed Christmas card from Ederic Slater, Havelock House, Canberra.

Immediate source of acquisition:

This large and diverse collection was compiled by Alec Costin then organised and catalogued by the eScholarship Research Centre at The University of Melbourne from 2017-2019. The collection was then transferred to the National Library of Australia in 2020.

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