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Title
Stuart Campbell - A Lost World in Unknown New Guinea, undated
Creator
Stuart Campbell, 1903-1988
Call number
MLMSS 3995
Level of description
fonds
Date

No date
Type of material
Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
887483
Physical Description
0.01 metres of textual material (1 envelope)
Photographs - 34 photoprints with typescript captions - image 7.5 x 11 cm
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Stuart Alexander Caird Campbell was chief pilot of Douglas Mawson's expeditions to Antarctica, 1929-31. In the 1920s and 1930s he did important aerial survey work in Papua New Guinea and served in the RAAF during World War 2.
Scope and Content
Stuart Campbell's reminiscences of early aviation in New Guinea, 1927-1936, with photographs by him (and W. Korn) particularly of the Fly River area. Each photograph is accompanied by a detailed caption.
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Photographs created before 1955
Copyright status:: Textual records in copyright
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of of New South Wales
General note

Pic.Acc. Update Project - Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 2 and Pic.Acc.5212 as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012
Subject
New Guinea--Discovery and exploration.
Air pilots, Australian--20th century.
Place
New Guinea

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