Assorted photographs: Includes early photos and Adastra aerial survey photos, 1960-1983

Containers:

Box 19 (MS 10563)

Component identifier:

File 233

Content Summary:

Photographs contained in annotated CSIRO envelope. Annotation reads "A. Costin: Early Photos and Cabins Repeats: Adaska - for Vegn Trends Paper".

Black-and-white photographs numbered on reverse as 1/58, 4/29, 6/35, 13/23, 13/24, 30/27, 46, B22. Subjects include tree with tapping mechanism and tanks at base, land rover in forest clearing, sheep grazing, cattle grazing, horse rider with cattle grazing, Kunama Hütte, large cabin in alpine area, sheep grazing.

Black-and-white photographs, including aerial shots. Photos numbered and some labelled. Seven photos numbered from 11420 to 11429. Nineteen photos numbered from 11659 to 11669. Four photos (stamped "Adastra Airways") and numbered as 143, 145, 149, 150. Five photos numbered as 77/31-/- . One photo numbered 9487. Several photos labelled "Adastra" in pencil. One photo labelled as Figure 132. Subjects include, inter alia, cattle, stockmen, hikers, car, horses, E. delegatensis - E. Dalrympleana alliance (wet sclerophyll forest), E. niphophila alliance (sub-alpine woodland vegetation), E. pauciflora - E. stellulata alliance (tableland), cirque-shaped lake, alpine region landscapes. Locations include Club Lake, [Spearman's?] Ck, Carruthers Peak area, [Rawgun?] Pass, Thredbo Valley. Locations include Pretty Point (stockmen with cattle), Kosciusko summit (stockmen and cattle), Blue Lake, Rawgun Pass, Carruthers Peak area.

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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