Photographs of Warragamba and Nepean Rivers and proposed dam site, 1914

PXB 584

fonds

1914

Graphic Materials, Photographs

976445

16 photographic prints - gelatin silver - 13.6 x 8.8 cm and 8.9 x 13.5 cm or smaller

Willie Bruxner Robertson was employed by the Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board as an engineer, and retired in 1954 in Wollongong as Supervising Engineer for the South Coast. This collection belonged to Robertson who is one of the members of the camping party shown in the photographs.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

Photographs belonged to Willie Bruxner Robertson, the donor's grandfather.

Comprises 16 photographic prints of a camping trip to the Warragamba and Nepean Rivers, 1914.

1. Proposed dam site
2. Site of proposed dam (cliff about 300')
3. Site of proposed dam (from water)
4. Nepean River. Site of prop's'd [i.e. proposed] syphon from Warragamba [verso annotated with diagram showing dam and syphon]
5. Rapids. Warragamba
6. Creek again
7. Same creek
8. Head of navigation. Warra'g'a [i.e. Warragamba] Rvr.
9. Upper Warragamba
10. Nepean River. Highest flood level at this point 80 ft.
11. Camp. Warragamba Rvr., 1914
12. Confluence of Nepean and Warragamba Rivers
13. [View of Warragamba River]
14. Warragamba River, Easter 1914
15. [View of creek bed], Easter 1914
16. [Portrait of two men at campsite with catch of eels], Willie Robertson on right

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Most photographs captioned verso

Dated from collection.