• Title
  First government tourist party at summit cottage - Mt. Kosciusko, NSW, [1906]
• Call number
  At Work and Play - 05232
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  30 December 1906
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  393271
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  The hut was formerly the "Mount Kosciusko Meteorological Observatory" or "Wragge's Observatory Hut", set up by the Queensland Government Meteorologist, Clement Lindley Wragge. It was completed on Sunday 17 April 1898 by Cooma builders, brothers Arthur and Herb Mawson, and building partner D. McArthur. It operated until July 1902 when the Government withdrew funding. The Tourist Bureau took it over and it burnt down on Christmas Day 1913, possibly due to lightning strike.
  
  The party of 25 including 5 women, left Jindabyne on 29 December 1906 and stayed overnight at Betts’ Camp. On 30 December 1906 they travelled from Betts’ Camp to the summit of Mount Kosciusko where Larry Harnett recited, “The Man From Snowy River.”
  
  Reference:
  Information supplied by Adrian Ingleby, March 2012 and June 2015
  http://trove.nla.gov.au (accessed 29.6.2015)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  The photograph appeared in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser for 16 January 1907 on page 161 and an article about the event appeared on page 142. ¶¶http://trove.nla.gov.au
• Description source
  
  Catalogued using information collected during the New South Wales bicentennial copying of photographs project, 1986.
• General note
  
  Digital order no:bcp_05232
• Alphanumeric designations
  
  Original item no. BCP 05232
• Subject
  Meteorological stations--New South Wales--Kosciuszko, Mount.
  
• Topic
  horses
  huts
  mountains
  tourists
  meteorologists
  construction (events & activities)
  observatories
  
• Place
  Wragges Observatory Hut (N.S.W.)
  Kosciuszko, Mount (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1708145

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