Photographs and conference paper manuscript regarding Australian alps, 1902-1992
- Containers:
- Box 37 (MS 10563)
- Component identifier:
- File 418
- Content Summary:
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Green folder labelled "Good: 11 figures (i.e. 10 photos: 1 map)".
Manuscript of conference paper "The Australian Alps national parks: An inter-state cross-border management program" by Roger Good, Ian Weir, Bruce Leaver, Andy Turner and Nev Gare, 1992. Paper prepared for the Conference on Protected Areas and Human Survival: Enhancing the Role of Conservation in Sustaining Society, Caracus.
Unlabelled buff envelope containing black-and-white photographs. Includes contact print sheet labelled "Sheet 2", and prints, mainly labelled photos of Kosciusko area. Subjects in labelled photos include accelerated erosion, Grey Mare fire plots. Other subjects include male squatting in front of Stephenson screen, trees (some leafless), herbfields. One photo mounted on paper labelled as "Fig. 9: Chap 4".
Photocopies, possibly from book of historical photographs of Australian alpine areas. Subjects include four tents, herbfields, male in hat looking down on herbaceous plants, tussock grass and leafless trees, group of people (mainly sitting), fences through herbfields with trees in background [showing effects of grazing?]; snow on slopes; boulders; rocks; person standing in gully; body of water; rocks on slopes amongst herbfield.
Unlabelled colour prints. All photos show closeups of flowers, apparently in Australian alpine areas.
Black-and-white photographs. One photo mounted on paper. Some photos labelled as figures or plates. One photo numbered as 70/398/9. Subjects and locations include solifluction lobes in tall alpine herbfield on Mt Twynam; Periglacial non-sorted steps on Mt Carruthers; cattle grazing in the alpine zone near Mt. Kosciusko; bearded male with black glasses measuring formation on ground; male bending over plot [for measuring run-off?]. Photographers include C. Totterdell, B. Byles.
Unidentified loose black-and-white photograph showing ice-covered stream, rocks, ground-hugging plants and herbs.
Loose colour photograph of mountains with superimposed map showing location of 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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