Album of photographs and loose photographs, mainly of birds, ca. 1920-1960 / by P. A. Gilbert and ot...
Album of photographs and loose photographs, mainly of birds, ca. 1920-1960 / by P. A. Gilbert and others
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca.1920-1960
Call Numbers
PXB 554
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Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 album - 48 silver gelatin photographs
18 photographs - silver gelatin
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
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Scope and Contents
Contents
1 photo album containing 48 b&w photographs, mostly of birds; includes one snapshot of approx. 15 people sharing a meal in a bush camp. Album in a paper wrapper stamped "Wirrimibirra Sanctuary, Bargo N.S.W.".
18 loose b&w photographs, mostly of birds, also insects, habitat and Gilbert's colleagues in the field; one colour photomechanical pri...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Album of photographs and loose photographs, mainly of birds, ca. 1920-1960 / by P. A. Gilbert and others
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
The last five loose photographs were originally found in a volume of newspaper contributions by P. A. Gilbert.
Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.3522 as part of the eRecords project 2011-2012
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Object History
This album and photographs were given to Mr M. N. Fackender, a ranger at Wirrimbirra Sanctuary, by Mr A. J. Langdale of Yagoona, who was a friend of P. A. Gilbert. They were included in a natural history library of some 1000 books which Mr Fackender gave to the Sanctuary on his retirement in December 1975, except for these items which he gave to th...
Contextual Information
Source
Donated by Mr M. N. Fackender, December 1975
Pic.Acc.3522
Administrative / Biographical history
Percy Albert Gilbert (1883-1960) was a naturalist who specialised in ornithology and native and cultivated orchids. He authored many articles in Emu, the scientific journal of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU), and in other journals such as the Australian Zoologist. He was made an honorary member of the RAOU in 1958 after a fifty y...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXB 554
Record Identifier
nZNvw08n
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nZNvw08n
Other Identifiers
Reference code
909469
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