• Title
  [Album of photographs of the Snowy Mountains : includes Mount Kosciuszko Observatory]
• Call number
  PXA 473
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1897-1902 (dated from weather observatory)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  414038
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (24 photoprints) - gelatin silver printing-out paper - 23.5 x 28.5 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Bernard Ingleby, 19 years old, was the First Observer on the Arctic Tent Observatory that was set up on Mount Kosciusko 4 December 1897. It was blown down by a gale in February 1898 and put up again, running until April 1898 when a hut was built. Ingleby was an observer there until October 1898. The Observatory was set up by meteorologist Clement Lindley Wragge who was Ingleby’s uncle.
  
  Reference:
  Information supplied by Adrian Ingleby, December 2012
• Scope and Content
  1. Trig: Mark Mt. Kosciusko snow clad
  2. Observatory - summer - an accident
  3. Observatory - winter
  4. Head of Snowey River
  5. Snowy River
  6. Snow drift - summer - Kosciusko east side
  7. Looking N.W. from Kos.
  8. Lake Claire - highest water in Australia
  9. Blue Lake - winter
  10. Observatory and Fog Crystals
  11. Mount Townsend
  12. Cootapatamba Drift - 600 feet deep - winter
  13. Fog Crystals
  14. Fog Crystals (showing heavy fog coming up)
  15. Cootapatamba Drift - Spring
  16. Drift
  17. Observers at Trig Mark
  18. Main Range 13 miles from Summit
  19. Arctic Tent & Trig Mark Kos.
  20. [snow scene]
  21. Lake Albino
  22. First Yarrangobilly Creek (Tumut District)
  23. Buddong Falls (Tumut District)
  24. Tumut look[ing] S.E.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  No. 10 reproduced in Australian and New Zealand ski yearbook : 1947, p.36. Dated 1897 and acknowledged to Charles Kerry -- ML ref. 796.4406/A¶¶No. 15 reproduced in Wragge's Australasian Almanac 1900 .../ Sapsford & Co., page 98, titled `Cootapatamba lake and big drifts, Kosciusko (October 28th, 1898)' -- SRL ref. 551.5/S
• Description source
  
  Title taken from old printed books catalogue entry
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1019787
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Captions in ink below photograph
  `99/1 3/9 No.126' -- inside front cover
  `2c 21.1019' -- bottom p.24
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Bernard Ingleby is in these photographs as in other Charles Kerry photos at the National Library of Australia, wearing a striped beanie. He had a St. Bernard dog named Zoroaster and in one of the photos there appears to be a St. Bernard.
  
  No. 2 – “Observatory – summer – an accident” shows mountain guide James Spencer. A grazier Goldby (or Golly) had an accident and had to be taken to Jindabyne. Photographer: Donald McRae (1859-1936).
  
  References:
  Sydney Morning Herald, 4 February 1899, pp. 8, 10
  Maitland Daily Mercury, Friday 17 February 1899, p.2 (which says that Donald McRae took the photograph)
• Date note
  
  Weather observatory established 1897, closed 1902 -- Canberra historical journal : Sept. 1987, no.20:3-15
  
  No. 3 after June 1899 as roof hatch is shown
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Kerry, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1857-1928
  
• Name
  Wragge, Clement L. (Clement Lindley), 1852-1922
  
• Subject
  Meteorological stations--New South Wales--Kosciuszko, Mount.
  Photograph albums--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  observatories
  rivers
  snow
  snowdrifts
  tents
  towns
  trig stations
  
• Place
  Wragges Observatory Hut (N.S.W.)
  Kosciuszko, Mount (N.S.W.)
  Snowy Mountains Region (N.S.W.)
  Snowy River (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1091364

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