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Papers of Keith Raymond Meggs, 1920s-2017

(104 ms boxes + 2 large folio box + 1 medium folio box + 2 binders + 2 folio packets + 2 digital carriers)
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Collection comprises research notes, drafts, correspondence, 16 mm films, negatives, slides, and over 3,000 photographs relating to Keith Meggs' books titled 'Australian-built aircraft and the industry' (volume 1-3). The publications contain information on every aircraft type proposed, designed, or manufactured in Australia, from 1884 to the mid-1980s. Keith Meggs published several authoritative works on Australian aviation and is internationally recognised for his contributions to aviation and its recorded history.
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Papers of Mary E. White, 1984-2007

38 Cold Store binders [9097 slides]
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This collection comprises slides taken by Jim Frazier during fieldwork with Mary E White. The images, which document fossils, landscapes, minerals and other geological features, were used for many of her publications including "The Greening of Gondwana" (1986), "Time in Our Hands: Semi-Precious Gemstones: Keys to the Geological Past" (1991), "Nature of Hidden Worlds: Reading the rock" (1999) and others. It provides a valuable documentary record of Australia's unique geology and landscape and is a testament to changing relationship of Australia's to the environment. Many of the slides have annotated housing with outlines, species names, measurements, and other information. There is also a small number of photographic prints and negatives included in the collection.
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Papers of Marina Tyndale-Biscoe, 1834-2021

(15 ms boxes + 1 folder + 4 audiovisual carriers)
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This collection comprises Marina Tyndale-Biscoe's scientific career records as well as her family's papers relating to their experiences in Europe and migration after the upheavals of the 1930s and 1940s. The career papers include material on Tyndale-Biscoe's work on CSIRO's bush fly and dung beetle programs. The collection also includes photographs, correspondence and family history research in Hungarian, German, Slovak and English.