Photograph collection: Barrington Tops, Scone (SCS) and Upper Hunter, n.d.

Containers:

Box 19 (MS 10563)

Component identifier:

File 232

Content Summary:

Collection of black-and-white photographs, negatives and labelled slips of paper originally housed in a buff CSIRO envelope labelled "Barrington Tops: Scone (SCS): Upper Hunter: still some photos missing: negatives present". Includes:

Slip of lined paper labelled "18A missing".

Slip of lined paper labelled "long film: Barrington Tops: 18A missing: also from 24A-37A missing".

Slip of lined paper labelled "Barrington Tops: Nos: 3: 5: 7: short film: rest missing".

Roll of negative film, numbered 3-37. Negatives appear to correspond with some photos in this file.

Roll of negative film, numbered 1-7. Negative no 7 corresponds with photograph labelled "subtropical rf in wsf" in this file.

Black-and-white photographs, including duplicates. Most photos have alphanumeric labelling on reverse as "A- 2/-", and some numeric (eg. "3"). Most photos also have descriptive labels. Descriptive labelling reads as follows:

(unnumbered) Subtrop RF in Wsf: descent from Carey's Peak.

20A Edge of Nothofagus forest.

3 Descent from Carey's peak.

5 View from Carey's Peak.

A10 Epacris and [Estillulata?] B Tops.

A11 [Epacris?] and E. [still?] B Tops.

A12 Water spreading over bog, B Tops.

A13 Periglacial boulders: B Tops.

A14 E. pauci sub [we?], Snow grass bog.

A15 "[Davedant?] Bog [Satwe? Snowfranland?]".

A16 "Forest, [gland?] Bog [drudamp?] B Top".

A17 Eroded Sgrass slope near hut ruins: B Tops.

A19 Slightly entrenched creek, B Tops, prevented from cutting deeper by gentler gradient.

A21 Looking from edge of Northofagus forest into adjacent E. fastigata forest (burnt).

A22 Nothofagus moorei.

A23 Edge of Northofagus forest.

A4 SCS Runoff Plots: Scone.

A4 SCS Runoff Plots: Scone.

A5 Moonan Flat.

A6 Steep over cleared slopes, upper Hunter.

A7 "[Dif?] between Moonan Flat and Tubraburra".

A8 Steep over cleared slopes: Upper Hunter.

E. dal forest, Tubraburra.

Photograph images are in good condition but prints are very bent.

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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