Guide to the Papers of Lennard Bickel

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MS 2721

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Collection Summary

Creator
Lennard Bickel
Title
Papers of Lennard Bickel
Date Range
1960-1969
Collection Number
MS 2721
Extent
0.63 metres (1 archives box + 1 medium folio box)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
National Library of Australia

Introduction

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2604528) for the access conditions.

Conditions Governing Use

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Lennard Bickel, National Library of Australia, MS 2721, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Item Descriptions

Series 1. Original consignment

Atomic Energy. Vol. 3, no. 4, October 1960. (editor H.L. Bickel) (Item)

Ahead (Australian Health Education Advisory Digest). Vol. 6, no. 2, June 1969 (Item)

Newspaper cuttings on various scientific subjects from The Australian, 1967-1969 (Item)

Copy of transcript of tapes of the Apollo 11 Mission Commentary, July 1969 (Item)

Series 2. Material added March 1970

Letter from Charles Court, WA Minister for Industrial Development, 13 December 1968 (Item)

Series 3. Material added April 1970

Corrected typescript of articles on the Australian wool industry (6 p.) (Item)

Medal in honour of Park Chung Hee, President of the Republic of Korea (Item)

Series 4. Material added May-June 1986

Comprising photographs (mainly re polar exploration, also World War II) from book about Frank Hurley.

Subseries 4-1. Polar photographs

Furthest South: In the distance Eric Webb marks the site, of the South Magnetic Pole etc. (Item 1)
LB on back, two men in an aircraft (Item 2)
POD on back, two men near an aircraft (Item 3)
R690 Banzare 1929-1931, Whales - photo taken from the Sir James Clark Ross (Item 4)
R692 Banzare 1929-1931, Moored Whales - taken from the Sir James Clark Ross. (Item 5)
Against the Gale (Eric Webb) (Item 6)
W.50 Return of the Night Watchman - Hodges (Item 7)
Two photos in a white, German envelope depicting dogs and sledges (Item 8)
Large photo on cardboard depicting dog sledge in Antarctic waste (Item 9)
'Madigan in photo' (Item 10)
Negative - bow of ship (Item 11)
Negative - men and tent village (Item 13)
Negative - 'Setting out for South.... 750 miles away (Item 14)
Negative - Ice overhang, ship in background (Item 15)
Photo- dog in foreground, men, sledge and tents in background. 'Camped at 19 miles S.E. of Winter Quarters'. (Item 16)
Man on deck of Ship (Item 17)
Husky dog, 'Basilisk' (Item 18)
2 Husky dogs, 'Basilisk and Ginger' (Item 19)
'Madigan, Stillwell's, Murphy's parties at Aladdin's Cave,', 7 November 1912 (Item 20)
'Traversing the Amery Ice Shelf' (Item 21)
'Basilisk and Ginger' Chained to sledge (Item 22)
See Item 19. (Item 23)
See Item 20. (Item 24)
Negative - Ice Shelf (Item 25)
Negative - Tent and men (Item 26)
Two men in polar clothing, kneeling (Item 27)
See Item 25, developed photo (Item 28)
Men in wooden building, looks like a store room (in white Macmillan envelope) (Item 29)
Negative - ice shelf and penguins (Item 30)
Negative - rocky beach and headland in background (Item 31)
Negative - rocky beach and penguins (in white Macmillan envelope) (Item 32)
Negative - 'Cliffs off Commonwealth Bay' (Item 33)
Negative - Ice flow Cliffs (x 2) (Item 34)
Negative - Ice flats (x 2) (Item 35)
Bag marked 1912-1913 various ice flows (Item 36)
Magazine of 1 June 1976 about Antarctica (Item 37)
'Brisbane welcomes Capt. Frank Hurley' (Item 38)
Negative, sea-gull on snow (Item 39)
Three men near tent with dogs and pick (Item 40)
Two men. One kneeling, one resting (Item 41)

Subseries 4-2. War photographs

Large, b w., behind transparent paper with a letter from 'Hemisphere' magazine (Item 1)
Medium, b. w., Capt. Frank Hurley (Item 2)
Medium, b. w. , line of British troops marching in war torn area. Line of horses on ridge in background. (Item 3)
Blimp and biplane above ruined building, medium, b. w. (Item 4)
Medium, b. w., line of mounted troops on tree-lined avenue. (Item 5)
Medium, b w. WW II, truck and 'Matilda' type tank in desert scene. (Item 6)
Medium, b. w., barbed wire and concrete emplacement. Desert War, WWII (Item 7)
Medium, b. w., trench and British soldiers. (Item 8)
Medium, b. w., devastated forest (Item 9)
Medium, b. w., taken through an arched window, ruined town and a British truck (Item 10)
Medium, b. w., British plank bridge over mud puddles (Item 11)
Medium, b. w., Group of British troops, Desert War, WWII. (Item 12)
Medium, b. w., British troops off-duty in a cave or trench. (Item 13)
Medium, b. w., 3 Biplanes over British trench. (Item 14)
Large, b. w., "The Fathomless mud and a broken duckboard near Retaliation Farm". (Item 15)
Medium, b. w., a blimp near a ruined town. (Item 16)
Medium, b. w. a British 'bren-gun carrier' being unloaded from a truck. Desert War, WWII (Item 17)
Medium, b. w. three British soldiers near barbed wire. Desert War, WWII (Item 18)
Medium, b. w., Australian army band. (Item 19)
Medium, b. w., British gun and truck convoy. Desert War, WWII. (Item 20)
Medium, B. w., British soldiers 'brewing up'. (Item 21)
Medium, b. w., British soldiers off-duty in a trench. (Item 22)
Negative, colour, Australian gun carriage and 4 horses.. (Item 23)
Negative, colour, Australian troops behind a stone wall. (Item 24)
Negative, colour, head of a horse. (Item 25)
Negative, colour, 'Tiger Moth' biplane. (Item 26)
Negative, colour, Australian tent encampment. (Item 27)
Negative, colour, line of biplanes. (Item 28)
Negative, colour, three Australian soldiers on a rock outcrop. (Item 29)
Negative, colour, red cross wagon with Aust. troops. (Item 30)
Negative, colour, aircraft and pilots in foreground. (Item 31)
Negative, colour, field of red flowers with tents in background. (Item 32)
Negative, colour, soldiers in front of brick ruin. (Item 33)
Negative, colour, battalion of cavalry in a sandstone building. (Item 34)
Negative, colour, lone rider against overcast sky. (Item 35)
Negative, colour, the Imperial Camel Corp. (Item 36)
Negative, colour, a British field gun. (Item 37)
Negative, colour, a British biplane with two pilots in leather. (Item 38)
Negative, colour, Aust. machine - gun post. (Item 39)
The first battle of Passchendaele. Dead and wounded in the railway cutting at Broodseinde during the battle 12 October, 1917. Hurley with camera. (Item 40)
A tank put out of action in a shell-pitted area near Clapham Junction, in the Ypres sector, in Belgium during the attack on September 20th 1917. Aust. War Memorial Photograph. Chap. 7, Page 10. (Item 41)
One of the old German reinforced concrete shelters near Retaliation Farm. "The entire country around was ploughed into waves of pulverised muddy earth, the craters being filled with water so that it was extremely difficult to move about. Aust. War Memorial Photograph Chap. 7. Page 17. (Item 42)

Subseries 4-3. Miscellaneous photographs

Negative, colour, Turkish looking city. (Item 1)
Large, b. w., page of writing (Item 2)
Large, b. w., page of writing. (Item 3)
Large, b. w., page of writing. (Item 4)
Large, b. w., page of writing. (Item 5)
Negative, colour, The Wallace Walk, Ballarat. (Item 6)
Slide, colour, flower bed. (Item 7)
Slide portrait of the young Frank Hurley used for backcover photographs used in In Search of Frank Hurley by L. Bicket. (Item 8)

Subseries 4-4. Documents

Letter to Mr Bickel from the National Gallery of Victoria. (Item 1)
Photo-copy of two newspaper articles of Antarctic. (Item 2)

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