Photographs and negatives: collection 39, Macquarie Island, 1958
- Containers:
- Box 18 (MS 10563)
- Component identifier:
- File 200
- Content Summary:
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Subjects include a ship with bluff in background, coastline shot from sea, male behind rails [of ship?] with sea in background, penguins, small boats. One photo (of bluff with Poa foliosa tussock in foreground) appears as Figure 1A in the journal article by Selkirk, Costin et al in file 194. Photo taken in 1958, according to article. Includes:
Contact print set in two parts (one large card and one strip). Both parts numbered as 39 and labelling on reverse reads "2/4" and "39" on strip and "2/4" on card. Images match photographs in this file (see below). Images are paired, suggesting were shot in stereo, but second image is always darker (less exposed?). Includes image which later appeared in Selkirk, Costin et al.
Black-and-white photographs each numbered as 2/5.6/1 and 39. Photos match images in contact print set 39. Includes image which later appeared in Selkirk, Costin et al. Photo images are of good quality but with small white dots.
Black-and-white photographs originally housed in buff Macquarie University envelope labelled "soaked prints: 1 diff from other: 39". Envelope also numbered in the centre at front as 39. Photos numbered on reverse as 39/-. Includes image which later appeared in Selkirk, Costin et al. numbered as 39/29.
Black-and-white photographs originally housed in buff Macquarie University envelope. Envelope labelled "Photographed: 39". Also includes a smaller buff Macquarie University envelope labelled "Photos: Macquarie Island: Alec Costin: 1958: 39: 39: 38". Many photos stuck together.
Black-and-white negatives labelled "39". Images correspond with photographs in this file. Images are paired as though taken in stereo pairs. Second image of each pair is darker. Includes image which later appeared in Selkirk, Costin et al. and numbered as 29 and 30.
- 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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- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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