Photographs and slides taken on bushwalking and canoe trips around Yerranderie and on the Kowmung and Coxs Rivers, April 1931-November 1932 / by Robert Watkin Savage

PXA 1481
SLIDES 195

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April 1931-November 1932

Graphic Materials, Photographs

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2 albums (137 photographic prints) - 22.5 x 21.5 cm.
99 slides - lantern - 8 x 8 cm.
15 photographic prints - 14 x 20 cm.

Colonel R. W. Savage was involved in the Scouting movement from 1920 and the Sydney Bush Walkers from 1930. Also an amateur photographer, he did all of his own processing including enlarging and glass slide making. After WWII he changed to using predominately kodachrome slides

Reference:
Mitchell correspondence file

PXA 1481 / Vol. 1
Album 1
53 photographic prints taken on a bushwalking trip to the Yerranderie-Colong area, April 1931. The trip was made by Robert Savage and his brother 'Harry' who feature in some of the scenic pictures of Colong Caves, Kowmung River, Boyd Range, Boyd River, Kanangra Walls, Mount Maxwell, Kanangra Gorge, The Pinnacles, Caves House. All photographs are described beneath in the album

Album 2
84 photographic prints taken on a canoeing trip along the Kowmung, Coxs and Wollondilly Rivers, November 1932. Includes short manuscript letter enclosed loose in the album addressed to R. W. Savage regarding the trip. Photographs show the group carrying the canoe to the river, camping scenes, panning for gold, canoeing and river views, post marking 'Hoy's' gold mining claim, Bulga Dennis Canyon. All photographs are described beneath in the album

PXA 1481 / Vol. 2
15 further loose prints of images appearing as slides and as prints of the canoeing trip along the Kowmung, Coxs and Wollondilly Rivers, November 1932. All prints are signed and titled in pencil by R. W. Savage

SLIDES 195
99 lantern slides of canoeing trip along the Kowmung, Coxs and Wollondilly Rivers, November 1932. Images are of river scenes, homesteads, landscape views, canoeing. Most of the images appear as prints in the album of the same trip

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Out of copyright: Created before 1955
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