Miscellaneous photographs and slides of mainly Kosciuszko areas, c.1979
- Containers:
- Box 36 (MS 10563)
- Component identifier:
- File 410
- Content Summary:
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Black-and-white, mostly labelled and numbered photographs, mainly (possibly all) of Australian alps. Subjects include winter snow cover in sub-alpine woodlands (near Kiandra), Ranuncluus anemoneus (alpine area, Kosciuszko National Park), Fen community. Photos numbered as 10938-IV, 1032, 71/12/1, Pic W. Some labelling, on yellow sticky notes, includes page numbers (possibly for publication). Some photos by Colin Totterdell.
Unidentified black-and-white aerial photographs [showing river bend?].
Unidentified colour negatives, numbered, unlabelled. Subjects include herbfield, open woodland, man standing in herbfield, three people in herbfield. One strip numbered 8049.
Mostly unidentified black-and-white photographs. Subjects include Mt Kosciuszko with alpine herbfield and heath; accelerated erosion of alpine herbfield initiated by sheep grazing (Kosciuszko); cattle grazing in front of snowpatch; mountains in evening or early morning; clumps of trees, lightning with leafless trees [result of bushfire?] in foreground; cattle grazing [historical photo?]. Two labelled, five numbered, four unnumbered and unlabelled. Numbering reads as follows: plates 5 and 14, 22, A38. Includes one duplicate.
Photocopy of map showing alpine areas of mainland Australia and Tasmania.
Handwritten reference list mainly of publications on the Australian alps.
- 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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- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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