Assorted photographs, mainly unidentified, 1925-2009

Containers:

Box 36 (MS 10563)

Component identifier:

File 407

Content Summary:

Several documents enclosed in a manila folder labelled "Slides and negs of photographs".

Small envelope addressed to Roger Good from Susan Boden.

Black-and-white photographs of varying sizes, some labelled, others numbered but unlabelled, one dated. Labelling includes page numbers and may have been written as captions for unidentified publication. Numbering reads A1.0, VB 12/426, Fig. 6, 71/11/5, 68988, S/S, Pic A, Pic 7, Pic R, Pic AA, Pic V, Pic J, Pic Z. Some photos by C.J. Totterdell. Subjects and locations include feldmark, epacris, Mt Twynam, daisies, winter snow cover, Kosciuszko National Park, summer wildflowers, Mt Kosciuszko, rocky landscape of Blue Lake cirque, upper Snowy River catchment, severely eroded soils, tall alpine herbfield, snowpatches, alpine zone near the Sentinel, steep western slopes, Aciphylla glacialis, Chronoichloa frigida, gravelly lithosal soils, glacial moraine material and outflow. Includes one historical photo [1920s?] showing seven men and women apparently in alpine area (labelled S/S Fig. 7 on reverse). Also includes one sticky note which appears to have detached from a photo.

Numbered black-and-white negatives in strips. Subjects include landscapes [in Australian alpine areas?] trees, small possum, man standing on slope, boulders. Also includes maps with contour lines.

Photographs, mostly black-and-white, one colour and two sheets of paper. Photos mostly numbered both on reverse and with attached yellow sticky notes; two mounted on white paper; one unlabelled and unnumbered with torn paper attached to reverse; some labelled (including three as "Ashton and Williams"), some labelled as figures, some labelled as plates. Numbering reads "Pick I to Pic S" (some missing) and "Pic BB to Pic MM" (some missing). One photo labelled as "Page 110". Subjects include Celmisia (Ramshead Range), B. parvus habitat and trap sites (Mt Higginbotham, Victoria), fence, low-growing plants, snow-covered summits, trees, land rover. Sheets of paper show lists of photos with respective comments.

Figures each on a separate piece of small white paper contained in large buff Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation envelope annotated as "1st Fenner Conference: Originals of drawings for paper: 'Aspects of the meteorology and hydrology of the Australian Alps' by J.A.H. Brown and F.C. Millner."

Order of service for the funeral of Dr Robert William Boden with one remembrance card signed by Susan Boden, 2009.

Unidentified colour photographs. Photos apparently taken in area being rehabilitated after bushfire. Subjects include NSW National Parks and Wildlife service sign on post regarding post-fire rehabilitation area for sphagnum bog, approx. 20 people gathered around three vehicles, people erecting cloth [canvas?] barrier. Also includes Soulcolour photograph envelope.

Unidentified black-and-white photographs. Subjects include alpine landscape [after fire?], rocks covered in wire mesh in gully, 20 cent piece [magnified?], two males on slope bending over to tend to plants [historical photo?].

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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