C. C. Towle papers and pictorial material mainly regarding anthropology and Australian Aborigines of New South Wales ca. 1885-1946

fonds

ca. 1885-1946

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs

873616

0.68 metres of textual material (4 boxes)
1096 photographs, 12 postcards and clippings (11 albums)

C. C. Towle was an amateur anthropologist who co-founded the Anthropological Society of N.S.W. He wrote papers on archaeology in N.S.W., corresponded with other amateur archaeologists as well as some prominent anthropologists and researched Aboriginal sites along the Great Western Highway and Western New South Wales. He presented a large collection of stone implements to the Australian Museum. Towle died in 1946.

Reference:
Library Correspondence File

This collection includes correspondence, newscuttings, notes on the explorers Ernest Giles and W. H. Tietkens, the Anthropological Society of NSW as well as notebooks about Aborigines, particularly in Western NSW. It includes photographs of carved and scarred trees, Aboriginal artifacts, fisheries and middens, burial grounds, stone arrangements and rock art. Many of these photographs were taken by amateur archaeologists Lindsay Black and his son Russell Black.

SERIES 01
Correspondence, notebooks and newscuttings relating to archaeology and anthropology in New South Wales as well as notes on the explorers Ernest Giles and W. H. Tietkens, ca. 1885-1946

SERIES 02
Photographs, postcards and publications of Aboriginal burial grounds, archaeological sites and artifacts, particularly from Western New South Wales, ca. 1920-1944 / photographed mostly by Lindsay Black, Russell Black, C. C. Towle and B. L. Hornsham.

SERIES 03
Mounted photographs of Aboriginal burial grounds, archaeological sites and artifacts particularly from Western New South Wales, 1928-1943 / [probably photographed by C. C. Towle]