Series 141: Snowy Mountains Scheme

PXE 731/798-921

series

between 1948 and 1960

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records

412141

121 photographic prints - silver gelatin - 25 x 35 cm or smaller
2 items of textual material

Exterior summer and winter shots of the Snowy Mountains region, before during and after the construction of the hydro-electric scheme, with emphasis on landscape, roads, mines, buildings, dams, water pipes and machinery. Includes diagrams, maps and models. Some interior shots of control rooms, machinery and workers operating equipment.

798-810. Shots of the Snowy Mountains region
811. Water pipeline under construction
812. Construction site
813. Workers village
814. Technician at work
815. The Prime Minister, Mr R.G. Menzies (left), and the Commissioner of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority (SMA), Sir William Hudson, at Tumut Pond Dam, in the Southern Alps, September 1958, when the dam was officially opened
816. Tantangara Dam, April 1960
817. Snowy River at Jindabyne in 1948
818. Adaminaby Dam
819. Rubber model of Snowy Mountains Area
820. Jindabyne Valley
821. Section of generating equipment for Munyang Power House
822. Turbine and generators awaiting installation in Munyang Power House
823. Rivers and watersheds in the Snowy Mountains area, drawing
824. Rivers and watersheds in the Snowy Mountains area, drawing
825. Rivers and watersheds in the Snowy Mountains area, drawing
826. Diagram showing Snowy-Tumut development, providing for the diversion of the Eucumbene, the Upper Murrumbidgee and the Tooma Rivers to the Tumut River, a tributary of the Murrumbidgee
827. Water pipes leading to Guthega Power Station
828. Intake tower at Adaminaby Dam
829. Typescript for a filmstrip of the Snowy Mountains Scheme
830. Map showing location of Snowy Mountains Scheme
831. View of Snowy Mountains region
832. Snowy Mountains from the West
833. The Snowy River at Guthega
834. View of Snowy Mountains
835. Waterfall, Snowy Mountains
836. View from summit of Mount Kosciuszko
837. View of Snowy Mountains
838. Snowy Mountains
839. Mount Kosciuszko
840. Winter, Snowy Mountains
841. Winter, Snowy Mountains
842. Rules Point, Southern Alps
843. Winter, Snowy Mountains
844. Construction site Snowy Mountains
845. Workers camp Snowy Mountains
846. Tumut River
847. Winter on the Tumut River downstream from Tumut Pond camp
848. Skiers on a cross country trek
849. Trout fishing, Snowy River
850. Driving mountain track, Snowy Mountains
851. Valley of Eucumbene River looking towards Kiandra
852. River Valley, Snowy Mountains
853. Farm dam, Snowy Mountains
854. Snowy Mountains surveyor
855. The Murrumbidgee River, near Canberra
856. Trolley bridge, Snowy Mountains
857. Winter, Snowy Mountains
858. View from the summit of Mount Kosciuszko
859. Upper Tumut Valley overlooking site of T1 Underground Power Station
860. The Machine Hall at Guthega Power Station
861. Diamond drillers pulling cores from a proposed site of the T2 Power Station
862. Surveyor, Snowy Mountains
863. Tunnel construction
864. Miners leaving outlet of Munyang tunnel
865. Hydro Power Station, Snowy Mountains
866. Snow gums covered in snow
867. Sir William Hudson
868-874. Various scenes of bulldozers, snow ploughs and heavy transport vehicles on snow covered roads
875. 2-bedroom transportable house on low loader prior to leaving for the Regions
876. Guthega Dam
877-878. Construction of Munyang Power Station
879-880. Norwegian hard rock miners working in Guthega-Munyang tunnel
881. Installation of generator for Munyang Power Station
882. View of Snowy Mountains in winter
883. Site for the Tantangara Dam, on the Murrumbidgee River
884. Helipterum, white everlastings with yellow centres, blooming near Lake Albina
885. Tumut River
886. Upper Murray Valley
887. River valley in Snowy Mountains
888. Mount Kosciuszko
889. Princes highway east, Orbost
890. Tumut Pond dam
891. Dam construction, Snowy Mountains
892. Snowy Mountains Authority building
893. Construction of Guthega dam
894. Munyang Power station
895. Munyang Power station
896. Reservoir
897. Tumut Pond Dam
898. Dam wall
899. Dam under construction
900. Tumut dam
901. Interior of T1 Power Station
902. Murrumbidgee river near its source in the Snowy Mountains
903. Tooma Dam, April 1960
904. Winter track near Kiandra Creek
905. Snowplough
906. Dam construction vehicles
907. Tunnel construction, Snowy Mountains
908. Surveyers working beside the Snowy River
909. Surveyor
910. Surveyers
911. Surveyers
912. Road construction
913. Road construction
914. Power Station construction
915. A Stevenson screen at Spencers Creek weather station
916. Tunnel construction
917. Testing and recording the waters of a stream in the Kosciuszko area
918. Snowy River development diagrams
919. Snowy River development diagrams
920. Sir William Hudson
921. Printed cardboard captions, probably intended to be affixed to photos

Copyright restrictions may apply:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Titled from accompanying envelope.

Reference sources:

Water and power from the Snowy Mountains Scheme / Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority. Cooma, NSW: The Authority, 196-?
Snowy: the making of modern Australia / Brad Collis. Canberra, ACT: Tabletop Press, 1990
The Snowy: the people behind the power / Siobhan McHugh. Port Melbourne, Victoria: William Heinemann Australia, 1989
Textual item does not appear to match collection photos

'NSW Education Department Visual Education Centre Library' stamped on reverse of most images. 'Australian News and Information Bureau photograph by R. Reeves' stamped on reverse of some images. 'S.M.H.E.A. official photograph' stamped on reverse of some images.

This Working Life - State Library of New South Wales (1 February - 13 June, 2004). Applies to: Nos.827,845,861,864,873,879