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David Edwin Murray, pictorial collection, 1912-1916 / compiled by David Edwin Murray

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    David Edwin Murray, pictorial collection, 1912-1916 / compiled by David Edwin Murray

    Call numbers

    PXE 1430 , ON 510

    Record identifier

    9PQ83qqn

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    https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9PQ83qqn

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    David Edwin Murray, pictorial collection, 1912-1916 / compiled by David Edwin Murray

    Full title

    David Edwin Murray, pictorial collection, 1912-1916 / compiled by David Edwin Murray

    Author / Creator

    Murray, David Edwin

    Date

    1912-1916

    Call Numbers

    PXE 1430 , ON 510

    Record Identifier

    9PQ83qqn

    Formats

    Pictures and Photographs

    — Physical Description

    Contents

    1 box (4 folders of 212 photographs) - various sizes. - black & white

    1 box (17 negatives) - 13 x 17 cm ; 8 x 11 cm. - glass

    — 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

    Physical Access Conditions

    Access to this pictures collection via appointment only. Please submit your request through Ask a Librarian : ON 510

    Issue Copy

    Copy print : PXE 1430

    Subjects

    Subjects and topics

    New Guinea Papua Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea) colonies hydrographic surveys surveying instruments surveying surveyors villages indigenous people hospitals nurses plantations state borders Germany--Colonies. Surveyors--New South Wales. Geology--Papua New Guinea--Surveys. Papua--Social life and customs. Papua New Guinea--Discovery and exploration. Surveying--Papua New Guinea. Plantations--Papua. Papuans--Social life and customs. Papuans Adult Males

    More information

    — SCOPE AND CONTENTS

    Contents

    PXE 1430

    212 Photographs. Material shows the border between German New Guinea and Papua being surveyed; the hospital in Port Moresby; social activities; villages of Papua; Papuan dress; plantations.

    ON 510

    Glass plate negatives of 17 prints from PXE 1430.

    — ALTERNATIVE TITLES

    Full title

    David Edwin Murray, pictorial collection, 1912-1916 / compiled by David Edwin Murray

    — AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

    Author / Creator

    — NOTES

    General note

    Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.5361 as part of the eRecords Project 2012-13

    — CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION

    Source

    Presented by Mrs Bootle, January 1983
    Pic.Acc.5361

    Administrative / Biographical history

    Mr. David Edwin Murray was a surveyor the Lands Dept. in New Guinea in 1912-1916 while working on the survey of the border between German New Guinea and Papua. The photographs were not taken by Mr. Murray but another person travelling with his group. (Mitchell file).

    Identifiers

    — PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS

    Call Numbers

    PXE 1430 , ON 510

    Record Identifier

    9PQ83qqn

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    https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9PQ83qqn

    — OTHER IDENTIFIERS

    Reference code

    908791

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