Albury and environs and construction of Hume Weir Reservoir, ca.1917-1935 / photograph album compile...
Albury and environs and construction of Hume Weir Reservoir, ca.1917-1935 / photograph album compiled by G. S. Read, with notes by E. J. McBarron
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Author / Creator
Date
ca.1917-1935
Call Numbers
PXA 1630
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Physical Description
Contents
1 album (96 photographs)
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Included with the album is a photocopy of Edward John McBarron’s notes about G. S. and Mary Read, and his own descriptive list of the photographs, dated March 1982 (“The attached annotations are made and many are presumptions”).
Contents of the album include photographs of the Reads, construction of the Hume Weir Dam, views around Albury-Wod...
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Full title
Albury and environs and construction of Hume Weir Reservoir, ca.1917-1935 / photograph album compiled by G. S. Read, with notes by E. J. McBarron
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Notes
Object History
The donor was Inspector of Stock for the Albury Pasture & Protection Board from October 1947 to January 1953. He and his wife shared a house with the widow of G. S. Read in Albury. He salvaged this album from the house after the death of Mrs Read in 1949. Source: Notes by E. J. McBarron, March 1982
Contextual Information
Source
Donated by Mr Edward John McBarron, February 1983
Pic.Acc.5381
Administrative / Biographical history
G. S. Read was the Albury Council engineer from 1911 to 1938 and a keen amateur photographer. Source: Notes by E. J. McBarron, March 1982
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 1630
Record Identifier
Yr8RGbNn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yr8RGbNn
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Reference code
908849
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