Photographs and negatives: collection 40, Macquarie Island, 1958

 
Containers:
Box 18 (MS 10563)
Component identifier:
File 201
Content Summary:

Subjects include albatross, large flock of penguins, treeless landscapes. Three of these photos later appeared as Figures 3A (hill with dark area of stable tussock - Poa foliosa), 6A (male standing on bare peat amongst rocky pavement, tongue of vegetation in between bare peat and erosion pavement) and 7A (gullies in bare areas in the upper slopes) in the journal article by Selkirk, Costin et al in file 194. These two photos were taken in 1958, according to that article. Includes:

Contact print set numbered as 40. Contact print set numbered in subject line as 41 (and 2/4 on reverse) and contains 31 images. Images match photographs in this file (see below). Images are paired, suggesting they were shot in stereo, but second image is always darker (less exposed?). Includes images which later appeared in Selkirk, Costin et al.

Black-and-white photographs, labelled and numbered on reverse. Each photo numbered as 2/5.6/1 and 40. Photos match images in contact print set 40. Includes images which later appeared in Selkirk, Costin et al. Photo images are of good quality but with small white dots [due errors in processing?]. Most photos also have tiny pock marks, possibly caused by print sticking to photo above.

Black-and-white photographs. Originally housed in buff Macquarie University envelope labelled "soaked prints: 3 diff from other: photographed: 40". Envelope also numbered in the centre at front as 40. Photos numbered on reverse as 40/-. Includes three images which later appeared in Selkirk, Costin et al. These three images numbered as 40/15, 40/12, and 40/14.

Black-and-white photographs originally housed in buff Macquarie University envelope. Envelope labelled "Photographed: 40". Also includes a smaller buff Macquarie University envelope labelled "Photos: McQuarrie Island: Alec Costin: 1958: 40: 40: 28: 40-15". Photos all stuck together and the smaller envelope. Bottom photo numbered as 40/16.

Black-and-white negatives in six strips two strips and sleeve all numbered as 40. Images correspond with photographs in this file. Images are paired [stereo pairs?]. Second image of each pair is darker. Includes images which later appeared in Selkirk, Costin et al.

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:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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