Assorted colour slides: Australian alpine regions, 1955-1978

Containers:

Album MS Cold Store 145

Component identifier:

File 207

Content Summary:

7 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 and indexed by a previous archivist.

Set 1: Locations and subjects include, inter alia, Twynam, Watson's Crags, Blue Cow area, bracken, dry heath, rocky summit, Guthega, Lloyd's snow jump, basal scouring, Kosciusko area, open/cleared/regrowth areas - snow gum, Kosciusko Hotel, Diggers Ck, Wilson's Valley, snow-covered shady clearing, snow-drift, Dainer's Gap.

Set 2: Locations include Dainer's Gap area.

Set 3: Locations and subjects include, inter alia, Scammell's Spur, Eucumbene River, Gungartan, Intertussock areas, Munyana Penstock, White's River aqueduct, Long Plain, Acropiza, Rennix Gap, Carruthers Peak, Snowy plains.

Set 4: Locations and subjects include, inter alia, Kosciusko area, Sorrel regeneration area, eroding fen, Siemen's area, Upper Twynam, Carruthers area, snow gums, bog, Charlotte [?] Pass.

Set 5: Locations and subjects include, inter alia, Kosciuszko, Danthonia frigida, Feldmar, Blue Lake, gully erosion, snow-drift, Snowy crossing, Epilobium and Sphagnum, Dicky Cooper streambank, "site C."

Set 6: Miscellaneous - Locations and subjects include, inter alia, Hollow-hummock associations in raised bog at Smiggins, "Roo, Washe [?] PV", "Pilot from Tin Mine Track", "Lloyds Snowjump Danier's Gap, and dead and [illegible] areas beyond", two people, flower closeup, snow-covered mountains. Also includes unidentified slide an aerial photograph of red-coloured forested area.

Set 7: Unidentified slides variously containing text and maps of NSW and Australia.

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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