Assorted colour slides: Australian alpine regions, 1951-1965

Containers:

Album MS Cold Store 145

Component identifier:

File 206

Content Summary:

10 sets of colour slides originally housed in an unlabelled metal Kodaslide compartment file box. Most slides are labelled, dated and/or numbered. These slides were arranged by a previous archivist.

Set 1: Locations and subjects include Kosciusko, Cooma, Albina, Mt Bogong, plant species (such as E. Delegatensis, Sorrel), snow and ice.

Set 2: Locations and subjects include Guthrie area, Jindabyne Valley, Beloka, Paddy's Corner, Piper's Ck aqueduct, scenes after snowfalls, relief feeding (cattle), snow drifting, church and needle ice erosion.

Set 3: Locations and subjects include Piper's Ck, Smiggins area, Carruthers, Snowy plains, Twynam, controlled fires, scenes after fire, break-down and erosion of peat.

Set 4: Locations include Mt. Twynam, Mt Stillwell area, Gungartan, Island Bend airstrip, Yaark, Bogong, Mt Jugungal, Tumut Pond. Some labelling unclear.

Set 5: Locations and subjects include Carruthers, Guthega Dam, Simon Beamish, Guthega operating level.

Set 6: Locations and subjects include inter alia Mt Carruthers, Blue Cow (Perisher), Island Bend (I. Bend), Bald Hill area, Twynam, Munyang, Crackenback, Northcote canyon, new road, intertussock areas, Bossiaea foliosa.

Set 7: Locations and subjects include Mullers Pk, Perisher area, Twynam, Blue Cow, Michelago plains, Tinderry [?] Mountains, grazing and landscapes.

Set 8: Locations and subjects include Watson's Crags, Above B.L. [Blue Lake?], Michelago, Murrumbidgee River, Upper Cotter River, Kiandra, Yaark, landscapes, frosty morning, controlled burning, forest and the Kiandra fire, 1965.

Set 9: Locations and subjects include Kosciuszko area, Snowy River area, Snowy Mountains, Tom Groggin area, vegetation sequence, wind clouds, E. delegatensis, Snow gum.

Set 10: Miscellaneous - Includes transparencies showing maps of Australian alpine areas, tables showing Australian alpine vegetation forms and soil groups. Also includes four colour transparencies, labelled as "CDF508" and five unidentified, colour transparencies.

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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