Guide to the Lance Nelson photographic archive, 1961 - 2010

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Content Summary:: The Lance Nelson photographic archive encompasses his entire career working as a documentary, freelance, commercial, corporate and stock photographer, internationally and in Australia. The collection comprises approximately 320 35 mm colour transparencies; 50,000 black and white negatives; 300 black and white prints; documents including personal and commercial correspondence, research notes, transcripts, note books, maps and published work including company annual reports and brochures. Includes proofs from Nelson's work for Annals magazine (Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, 1966-1973) documenting the Northern Territory missions at Port Keats (Wadeye), Bathurst Island, Tiwi and Daly River; Papua New Guinea missions at D'Entrecasteaux Islands from Milne Bay to Rossel Island and Trobriand Island; contact sheets from Boggabri Country Town Family project; contact sheets of trip to Indonesia in 1966 documenting all major islands, families, farming, mining and culture for a publication: 'Mask of Time : an Indonesian discovery'.

Location of this collection:: National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia