Photographs and negatives: collection 24 (some numbered as collection 37) Macquarie Island, n.d.
- Containers:
- Box 18 (MS 10563)
- Component identifier:
- File 196
- Content Summary:
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Subjects include penguins (including some nesting) mountains, herbfields, rocks, tussock grassland on Macquarie Island. Some photos match images in Macquarie Island collection no. 37 in file 197. Includes:
Black-and-white photographs, stuck together in one clump. Each photo labelled on reverse as "24: 2/5.6/1". Bag labelled "24".
Black-and-white photographs and two envelopes. Photos stuck together and to envelope labelled "Photos Macquarie Is: Alec Costin: 1958: 37:37:24". Bottom photo labelled "37/19". Originally housed in a larger buff Macquarie University envelope labelled "Photographed: 24". Larger envelope stained by photo print.
Contact print set with 27 numbered images, numbered on front and reverse as 24. Images match photographs in this file. Also numbered on reverse as 2/4. Print is flawed due to sticking to envelope and subsequent damage to image no. 21.
Black-and-white negatives labelled "24" on two strips. Negatives match contact print set.
- 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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Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
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- Parent Terms of Access:
- Conditions for copying and publishing of this collection may apply, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn10024871).
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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