Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme slide collection with accompanying text [picture] / photographs and text by Laurence Failes
- Bib ID:
- 1586188
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Failes, Laurie (Laurence John), 1899-1976
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. PIC Cold Store Row A1/4/4 [Pic LJ Fai] Box 1 #PIC/3069/1-369 copy
- Related Online Resources:
- List of captions
- Description:
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- [between 1954 and 1965]
- Approx. 370 slides in 5 boxes : col. ; boxes 6.6 x 17.5 x 32.3 cm. and smaller + Photocopy of typescript.
- Summary:
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The slides, taken by Laurie Failes, and the typescript, are from the slide show which he compiled and presented for his electorate. The main themes are national pride in the engineering achievements, the necessity of providing water for irrigation and the efforts to stop soil erosion. The 240 slides which are in 8 projector cartridges correspond to the typescript; another 130 slides, in a wooden box, were not used in the show, although some which have numbers may once have been.
- Biography/History:
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Laurence John Failes, 1899-1976, was a Country Party backbencher representing the seat of Lawson, N.S.W., in the Federal Parliament from 1949 to 1969.
- Notes:
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- Title supplied by cataloguer.
- The slides in projector cartridges are all numbered, but the order of the slides in the cartridges is not by number. The 8 cartridges are inscribed "Snowy 1" to "Snowy 8". Cartridges 1-5 are in one cardboard box, with 6,7 & 8 in individual cardboard boxes. Another approx. 130 loose slides, some numbered, are in the wooden box. The slides in the cartridges have metal frames, the ones in the wooden box have metal or cardboard frames.
- The first slide, which is numbered "1" in pencil, shows "Laurie Failes presents"; and the second slide, which has no number, shows "The Snowy Mountains".
- Copies of numbered 'talk' held in the Photographers' files under: Failes, Laurence
- Selected images individually catalogued and digitised.
- PIC Cold Store Row A1/4/4 [Pic LJ Fai] Box 1 #PIC/3069/1-369 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-144085975
- Related Material:
- Related material: original drafts of text, record and miscellaneous material National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection.
- Subject:
- Terms of Use:
- Copyright transferred from Mrs Anne Buchanan to the National Library of Australia.
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- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
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