Assorted colour slides: mainly Australian alpine regions, 1950-1964

Containers:

Album MS Cold Store 220

Component identifier:

File 211

Content Summary:

3 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: slides of various subjects and locations in the Australian alps including, inter alia, kangaroos, snake, heath, glacial lake, tussocks, Coree area, Lythrum, fen, Badja. Kosciuszko area, snow gums, Lake Albina, Hotel at Kosciuszko, Gungartan, Charlotte Pass, Australian Capital Territory, week after May snow, Perisher Ck, Bogong Creek, Blue Lake. Also includes several slides labelled "Mason visit". Includes two empty plastic slide covers (one labelled "NSW").

Set 2: Set contains assorted slides mainly of the Twynam area (eg. Lake Cirque at Twynam - showing fluvial action). Also includes slides of inter alia, Congelifluction terrace (Merrits Ck), Jindabyne, Albina area, Island Bend area, lateral moraine, Frost Haven, patterned slope deposits on South slope of Blue Lake, Carruthers area.

Set 3: Mainly figures and text unlabelled and undated. Slides show various graphs, maps, diagrams and tables (including two labelled by a previous archivist - Diagram on temperature-elevation profile of valley and vegetation map of Bogong High Plains). Also includes two slides of Tantangara plain and Twynam reclamation and two USA vegetation maps.

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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