• Title
  File 01: South Coast, [1930s-1950s] / photographed by Max Dupain
• Call number
  ON 609/Box 26/nos. 1154-1161
  PXA 2164/Folder 74/Items 16-21
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  [1930s-1950s]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records
• Reference code
  9588621
• Physical Description
  8 negatives - black & white
  6 items of textual material - manuscript
  
• Scope and Content
  8 negatives of various coastal and beach scenes on the South Coast of New South Wales including people watching a man do a handstand on the sand, surf crashing towards the shore at Easts Beach, grass growing through sand at Culburra, people walking along the main street at Tathra, a camping scene at Easts Beach, a man standing on a rock and the shadow of three men falling across a beached stingray at Berrara.
• Access Conditions
  
  This material is held in cold storage and requires 3 working days notice to retrieve. Please submit your request through Ask a Librarian - Only applies to ON 609/Box 26/nos. 1154-1161
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Created after 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Titled from original paper bag housing negatives.
• General note
  
  Some negatives are published in Dupain's Beaches. ON 609/Box 26/no. 1154 is similar to one on p. 53 titled 'Handstand, south coast beach' 1939. ON 609/Box 26/no. 1155 on p. 51 titled, 'Surfscape, Easts Beach, Kiama' 1940s. ON 609/Box 26/no. 1156 on p. 54 titled, 'Sandhills at Culburra' 1930s. ON 609/Box 26/no. 1158 on p. 58 titled, 'Late afternoon, Tathra' 1940s. ON 609/Box 26/no. 1159 on p. 49 titled, 'Campers at Easts Beach, Kiama' 1940s. ON 609/Box 26/no. 1160 on p. 64 titled, 'Stingray and shadows' undated.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Additional information on glassine bag housing negative at ON 609/Box 26/no. 1154 read, "Beach scene S. Coast 40's", "B20" and on post-it note "beach - Printed for presentation Sept 98". ON 609/Box 26/no. 1155 read, "Easts Beach South Coast", "X", "Land Book", "B36" and "98". ON 609/Box 26/no. 1156 read, "Grass shadows on sand", "Culburra 30s", "98", "B132" and "Land Book P 195". ON 609/Box 26/no. 1157 read, "Tathra 50s, couple walking 98", "51" and "B39". ON 609/Box 26/no. 1158 read, "Tathra 'street'", "52" and "'Late Afternoon' couple walking - Tathra 50s". ON 609/Box 26/no. 1159 read, "Easts Beach camping 40's" and "B35A". ON 609/Box 26/nos. 1160-61 read, "Berrara Beach camp '37 or '39".
  Some negatives have technical information on glassine bags located at PXA 2164/Folder 74/Items 16-21.
  Negative at ON 609/Box 26/no. 1155 is inscribed with a dot. ON 609/Box 26/no. 1159 is inscribed, "X". ON 609/Box 26/no. 1160 is inscribed, "Berrara Camp".
• Date note
  
  Dated from published images.
• Topic
  beaches
  seascapes (views)
  surf
  camping
  
• Place
  South Coast (N.S.W.)
  Berrara (N.S.W.)
  Culburra Beach (N.S.W.)
  Kiama (N.S.W.)
  Tathra (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE19493148

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