[Album of photographs of the Snowy Mountains : includes Mount Kosciuszko Observatory]
[Album of photographs of the Snowy Mountains : includes Mount Kosciuszko Observatory]
[Album of photographs of the Snowy Mountains : includes Mount Kosciuszko Observatory]
About this item
Full title
Date
1897-1902 (dated from weather observatory)
Call Numbers
PXA 473
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
Albums - 23.5 x 28.5 cm. - 1 album (24 silver gelatin printing-out paper photoprints)
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
1. Trig: Mark Mt. Kosciusko snow clad
2. Observatory - summer - an accident
3. Observatory - winter
4. Head of Snowey River
5. Snowy River
6. Snow drift - summer - Kosciusko east side
7. Looking N.W. from Kos.
8. Lake Claire - highest water in Australia
9. Blue Lake - winter
10. Observatory and Fog Crystals
1...
Alternative Titles
Full title
[Album of photographs of the Snowy Mountains : includes Mount Kosciuszko Observatory]
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 1019787
Signature / Inscriptions
Captions in ink below photograph
`99/1 3/9 No.126' -- inside front cover
`2c 21.1019' -- bottom p.24
Attributions / Conjectures
Bernard Ingleby is in these photographs as in other Charles Kerry photos at the National Library of Australia, wearing a striped beanie. He had a St. Bernard dog named Zoroaster and in one of the photos there appears to be a St. Bernard.
No. 2 – “Observatory – summer – an accident” shows mountain guide James Spencer. A grazier Goldby (or Gol...
Date note
Weather observatory established 1897, closed 1902 -- Canberra historical journal : Sept. 1987, no.20:3-15
No. 3 after June 1899 as roof hatch is shown
Description source
Title taken from old printed books catalogue entry
Published information
No. 10 reproduced in Australian and New Zealand ski yearbook : 1947, p.36. Dated 1897 and acknowledged to Charles Kerry -- ML ref. 796.4406/A¶¶No. 15 reproduced in Wragge's Australasian Almanac 1900 .../ Sapsford & Co., page 98, titled `Cootapatamba lake and big drifts, Kosciusko (October 28th, 1898)' -- SRL ref. 551.5/S
Contextual Information
Source
Presented Oct 1959
Transfer from Mitchell Library Printed Books Q981.7/4A1, Nov. 2001
Administrative / Biographical history
Bernard Ingleby, 19 years old, was the First Observer on the Arctic Tent Observatory that was set up on Mount Kosciusko 4 December 1897. It was blown down by a gale in February 1898 and put up again, running until April 1898 when a hut was built. Ingleby was an observer there until October 1898. The Observatory was set up by meteorologist Clemen...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 473
Record Identifier
9gkdxrJ9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9gkdxrJ9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
414038
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