Canberra and the surrounding district, 1910-1913

Containers:

Box 5, Folio-Box 8 (MS 1003), Folio-Box 10, Map-Folio MS 1003/3/25-30

Component identifier:

Series 3

Content Summary:

From 1912 to 1913, Taylor, as Physiographer with the Federal Meteorological Service, participated in a survey of the Federal Capital Site. The Series includes a Report of the geology along the proposed railway to Jervis Bay, dated December 1912 and material relating to the opening of Canberra on 13 March 1913. There is also a field notebook of a physiographic survey of the capital site made by Taylor in 1910, photographs of early Canberra, and correspondence between Taylor and his family and friends. Further material may be found in Series 9 and 10.

Material from Files 11-23 and 31-34 can be found in Folio Box 8, while the Cycloramic View of Canberra (36-37) are in Folio Box 10.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The bulk of the collection was donated to the Library in a succession of instalments between 1954-64, initially by Thomas Griffith Taylor, and added to by other family members and associates of the geographer.

Subjects:

Geography

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