Guide to the T.C.G. Weston Map Collection

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MFC 12

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Collection Summary

Creator
Weston, T.C.G. (Thomas Charles George)
Title
T.C.G. Weston Map Collection
Date Range
1913 - 1928
Collection Number
MFC 12
Extent
9 items in 1 map folder
Language of Materials
English
Repository
Special Collections (Maps)

Introduction

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of nine maps of the A.C.T. and Canberra.

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2459821).

Conditions Governing Use

Some published maps in this collection may be in copyright.

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of map item], T.C.G. Weston Map Collection, National Library of Australia, [item number]'.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Acquired by the National Library of Australia from Anne Weston, T.C.G. Weston's daughter. Maps 1 and 5 are annotated in pencil on verso "From Miss Anne Weston 6/5/70"

Biographical / Historical

Thomas Charles George Weston was a Middlesex-born horticulturalist who migrated to New South Wales in 1896. Following head gardener roles at Sydney's Admiralty House and Federal Government House, he was appointed Officer-in Charge of Afforestation in Canberra in 1913. In this role Weston was charged with creating an urban landscape compatible with the city to come, under instruction from Director of Design and Construction, Walter Burley Griffin. Weston established nurseries, travelled to acquire seeds, and conducted trials to determine which species could grow in the capital. The year after his 1926 retirement to Sydney he was awarded an MBE. Dying of cancer in Sydney in 1935, Weston's ashes were scattered in Canberra at the Parliament House park he had designed.

Item Descriptions

Canberra, plan of city and environs, 1:31,800, 1927 (Item 1) - Folder 1

Diazo print map showing route to be taken by Regal Party from Government house to Parliament House, and from Parliament House to the saluting base, for the opening of Parliament in 1927. Also shows post and telegraph offices, lavatories, camping areas for the public, parking areas, review and viewing areas, and the main Yass Queanbeyan road, all hand drawn in colour on base map. Base map is Canberra plan of city and environs / drawn by Home and Territories Dept. Lands and Surveys Melbourne, 1918, (H.J. Green printing). Additions by Federal Capital Commission. Annotation in pencil on front with unlabelled symbols. On sheet 51 x 41 cm.

Related Materials

More copies/editions of this map are held in the general map collection. View the catalogue records at MAP G8984.C3G45 1918 and at MAP G8984.C3S1 1927.

Creator / Publisher

Drawn by Home and Territories Dept. (Lands and Survey Branch), Melbourne, Sept. 1918.

Sketch map of the Federal Territory Commonwealth of Australia, 1:190,080, 1927 (Item 2) - Folder 1

Colour topographic map of the ACT, showing roads (in brown), railways (including "Proposed Yass railway") and stations, schools, watercourses (in blue), and district boundaries. Four-digit elevation(?) figures are given for selected localities, but are quoted without units in some cases. Also shows Michelago and, west of the Cotter River, labels a "belt of forest brown barrel mountain gum & mountain ash." Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes two boxes containing text at top: "Seat of government acts etc." and "Notes". J.G.B. printed on lower left corner. On sheet 54 x 39 cm.

Related Materials

More copies/editions of this map are held in the general map collection. View the catalogue record at MAP G8980 1920.

Creator / Publisher

Compiled & drawn by Home & Territories Dept., Lands & Survey Branch, Melbourne, April 1920. Published by the Federal Capital Commission, Canberra, May 1927.

Canberra and the Federal Capital Territory: this map is supplied free with Grover's Descriptive guide to Canberra, 1:21,120, [ca 1927] (Item 3) - Folder 1

Street map of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, based on Walter Burley Griffin's 1918 plan, showing existing streets and buildings in red, with proposed building sites and water features in colour. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Citation: Australian National Bibliography 1901-1950, no. 12785 [col. map]. Originally issued with: A descriptive guide to Canberra / compiled by Harry Grover. Melbourne : Brown Prior & Co., 1927, which was issued to coincide with the opening of Parliament House, 1927. Includes key to references and notes on the Federal Territory. Panel title: Canberra and the Federal Capital Territory Descriptive guide to Canberra Grover's descriptive guide to Canberra. Partial contents: Ancillary map on recto: The Federal Capital Territory. [scale not given]. Ancillary map on verso: Canberra Golf Links. Scale [ca. 1:2,400]. 200 ft. to an inch. 63 x 55 cm., on sheet 87 x 56 cm., folded to 22 x 14 cm.

Related Materials

More copies/editions of this map are held in the general map collection. View the catalogue records at MAP G8984.C3E635 1927 and at JAFp HIST 94.

Creator / Publisher

[ Brown, Prior & Co., Melbourne, 1927?]

Rough topographical map of part of Federal Capital Territory for military purposes, 1:31,680, 1913 (Item 4) - Folder 1

Cloth topographic map showing constructed roads, railway line, tracks, military college and camp. Relief shown by contours and hachures. 86 x 44 cm on sheet 90 x 49 cm.

Related Materials

More copies/editions of this map are held in the general map collection. View the catalogue record at MAP G8981.R1 1913.

Creator / Publisher

Compiled and drawn by Home Affairs Dept. Lands & Surveys Branch, Feb.y., 1913.

Dairying blocks Mill Flat, Canberra Federal Territory: to be leased for a term of ten years, 1:7,920, 1925 (Item 5) - Folder 1

Sales plan of dairying blocks bordering the Molonglo River at what is now Fyshwick, Canberra, in A.C.T. showing sizes of blocks and lessees' name. Relief shown by hachures. Inset: Locality plan. Includes information on condition of leases. 62 x 73 cm., on sheet 70 x 81 cm.

Related Materials

More copies/editions of this map are held in the general map collection. View the catalogue record at MAP G8984.C3G46 1925 (Sales plan).

Creator / Publisher

H.J. Green, Government Printer, Melbourne.

Plan shewing permanent planting governmental group at Canberra, the Federal Capital of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1:720, 1928 (Item 6) - Folder 1

Plan showing streets, buildings, parking areas and location of plants. Includes reference table. On sheet 40 x 73 cm.

Related Materials

More copies/editions of this map are held in the general map collection. View the catalogue record at MAP G8984.C3G52 1928.

Creator / Publisher

Chief Commissioner J.H. Butters' signature dated 7.9.28 on lower right hand corner.

Canberra, plan of city and environs, 1:19,200, 1918 (Item 7) - Folder 1

Cadastral map of Canberra showing proposed suburbs, roads and lake. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Walter Burley Griffin, Federal Capital Director of Design and Construction below map title. Some annotations in pencil on front of figures/calculations. Original published by authority of A.J. Mullett, government printer, in 1918, this reprint by the new printer, H.J. Green, was probably made between 1924 (when Green succeeded Mullett) and 1927 (when the printing office moved form Melbourne to Canberra). 83 x 65 cm., on sheet 92 x 72 cm.

Related Materials

More copies/editions of this map are held in the general map collection. View the catalogue record at MAP G8984.C3G45 1918.

Creator / Publisher

Drawn by Home and Territories Dept., (Lands and Survey Branch), Melbourne, Sept.r., 1918.

Map showing rainfall and temperature statistics of the proposed site for the Federal Capital and the surrounding districts, 1:500,000, [ca 1910] (Item 8) - Folder 1

Also issued with: On the climate of the Yass-Canberra district. Melbourne: Bureau of Meteorology, 1910. (Bulletin (Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology (Australia) ; no. 7). Includes notes and scale of shades. Rainfall map showing average annual rainfall for a period of years at given stations, and temperature statistics. Relief shown by contours. Reissued for the Dept. of Home Affairs in 1911, in booklet, in information for Federal Capital Design Competition competitors in box labelled: Competition design of Federal Capital City, Commonwealth of Australia. 83 x 57 cm on sheet 89 x 61 cm.

Related Materials

More copies/editions of this map are held in the general map collection. View the catalogue record at MAP G8981.C8 1910.

Creator / Publisher

Compiled at the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, under the direction of H.A. Hunt, Commonwealth Meteorologist.

Canberra Federal Territory, Stromlo, Kambah subdivision, grazing blocks: to be leased for a term of ten years 1:31,680, 1925 (Item 9) - Folder 1

Sales plan of grazing blocks in Stromlo, Kambah region showing block numbers, size of blocks and lessees' names. "C.14442". Inset: "Lend for lease, Locality plan". Includes: "Schedule of improvements to be effected by lessee". Form No. 10 The Commonwealth of Australia The Territory for the Seat of Government Federal Capital Commission The Leases Ordinance 1918-1925 document is attached to map. Annotation in pencil on front with lessee names and figures/calculations. 75 x 100 cm

Related Materials

More copies/editions of this map are held in the general map collection. View the catalogue records at MAP G8981.G46 1925 and at MAP G8981.G46 1926

Statement of Responsibility

By Authority, H.J. Green, Govt. Printer.


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