Series 14 - Photographs and Slides


Date Range1859 - 1980s
ProvenanceLawrence Percival Coombes
Description

Photographs and slides of Coombes' family and their travels; CAARC; ARL; Schneider Trophy; World War One. Also includes family documents,greeting cards, ephemera, and creative writing.


Inventory Listing

14-1 Family Photographs - 'Old Photos sent with Blyth by Flossie 1984'

Collection of photographs of LPC's parents, uncle, siblings, some taken in India. Includes photos of: LPC in naval uniform (World War I); Mrs Nancy Coombes as young woman; Rev J.W. Coombes (LPC's Uncle Jos); Felix Call (Kathleen Coombes' husband); Kathleen, Dorothy and Constance (Renie) Coombes (LPC's sisters); 'Keith, aged about 9 years'(LPC's brother); Indian garden scene with Mr J.R. Coombes, Mrs Camellia Ruth Coombes (LPC's parents) and LPC aged about one and a half, maids and unidentified guest.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1900? - 1930?    Quantity 0.7 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00261 Box Number 21 Series 14
14-2 Assorted Family Photographs - England pre-1938

Includes: Rev J.W. Coombes; Mrs Nancy Coombes; Shirley? As baby; toddler and young girl; Mrs Ruth Coombes; unidentified house, cloisters.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1928? - 1938?    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00262 Box Number 21 Series 14
14-3 'English Electric Dinner'

Two black and white photos: one labelled by LPC 'Lord Nelson speaking in photo. I was guest speaker'; LPC as guest speaker.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1960s    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00263 Box Number 21 Series 14
14-4 LPC - Portrait Photograph

LPC in RAF uniform.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1917? - 1918    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00264 Box Number 21 Series 14
14-5 Miscellaneous Photographs - Shirley and Jo, pre-1938

Includes: Shirley and Jo Coombes as young girls, with unidentified friends at beach in England; Baby's bassinet, decorated with frilled lace and blue ribbon; Shirley, Jo and friend 'Christopher' in garden, England; Catalogue of Royal Aircraft Establishment Photographic Society Exhibition 1938 (LPC and exhibitor).

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1928? - 1938    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00265 Box Number 21 Series 14
14-6 Miscellaneous Photographs - Shirley and Jo in Australia

Includes: Shirley Coombes, Jo Coombes, school age - dressing up for plays and some of Nancy Coombes.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1940s    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00266 Box Number 21 Series 14
14-7 Assorted photos - Jo and Family

Includes: Jo's coming of age, 1953; the engagement of Jo Coombes and Blyth Johnson; Johnson children and horse; Timothy Johnson as entrant in Baby of the Year Quest; Johnson daughter.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1953 - 1970s    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00267 Box Number 21 Series 14
14-8 Assorted photos - Macleish family

Graduation photograph of Diana MacLeish (Shirley MacLeish's daughter); Kirsten MacLeish (LPC's great granddaughter).

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1980s    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00268 Box Number 21 Series 14
14-9 Miscellaneous Personal

Personal correspondence and memorabilia including: letters from LPC en route to America to Mrs Nancy Coombes, September 1938; post cards and letters from LPC to Shirley and Jo Coombes; drawings by Shirley Coombes; pantomime programme for 'Sinbad the Sailor'. Also includes envelope containing inventory of furniture, estimate for packing furniture and effects for LPC to Australia, and correspondence re removal.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1931 - 1939    Quantity 0.7 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00269 Box Number 21 Series 14
14-10 Miscellaneous Photographs

Photograph of LPC and Jock Gray at single men's quarters of RAE, Farnborough, 1925; photograph of LPC and probably Gray, captioned on back: 'Clark and Gray. Send this one back'; LPC at desk; Wind Tunnel, St Kilda, en route to ARL, 1940.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1925 - 1940    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00270 Box Number 21 Series 14
14-11 'Australia - Photographs', Personal and CAARC

Black and white photographs, mostly 4" x 3", of CAARC meeting number 4, November-December 1955. The photographs are on sheets (20pp.), loosely bound in folder, and are all labelled. Folder also includes: invitation to LPC from the Hon Howard Beale, Minister for Supply, to luncheon for CAARC delegates, 11 November 1955; letter from R.J. Brearley, National Research Council of Canada to F.W. Houten, Dept of Defence, Production and Supply re return of above file of photographs to LPC; Black and white photographs, approximately 7" x 10", of LPC delivering 1959 James N. Kirby Paper and presentation of Kirby Medal to LPC, Great Hall, University of Sydney; Loose leaf album entitled 'Photographs from Australia', December 1955 - May 1956 including photographs of LPC's family and friends at recreation, renovations to LPC house (Murphy St. South Yarra), and General James Doolittle's visit to ARL in May 1956; press clippings of Dolittle's visit; Menu of Mrs. Nancy Coombes.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1955 - 1960    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00271 Box Number 21 Series 14
14-12 Schneider Trophy Contest Anniversary 1913 - 1981

Drafts and typescripts of articles by LPC, correspondence, photographs and ephemera relating to the Schneider Trophy. Includes: letter from S.W.D. Wolf, RAeS Southampton branch to LPC, with participant invitation list; handwritten draft letter from LPC to Mr Schaffter, RAeS, re LPC's photographs and typescript article of recollections of 1927 Schneider Trophy Race in Venice; letter from S.W.D. Wolf to LPC acknowledging receipt of article and photographs; application forms for functions and souvenir programme, Schneider Trophy Contest 1981; invitation to Schneider Trophy 50th Anniversary weekend, Calshot, Southampton, September 1981; typed draft and photocopy of LPC article, 'The Schneider Trophy Races'; photocopy of LPC paper, 'History of Contest, 1913 - 1926'; handwritten draft of LPC article, 'Kingsford - Smith'. Also includes: black and white photographs illustrating article, 'The Schneider Trophy Races' (2 envelopes); 11 negatives; typed list of numbered captions for photographic illustrations, prepared by LPC. Photographs are not captioned or numbered.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1981    Quantity 2.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00272 Box Number 22 Series 14
14-13 Miscellaneous Family Documents - 'Collected England Trip, 1976'

Collection of family documents. One envelope of certificates of LPC family members contains: Baptismal Certificate of James Robert Coombes, 1859; Baptismal Certificate of Kathleen Esther Coombes, 1886, 2 copies, one torn at folds; Marriage Certificate of Kathleen Coombes to Felix Call, 1920; Marriage Certificate of LPC's parents, James Robert Coombes to Camellia Ruth Pincott, 1885, two copies; Death Certificate of Felix Call, 1926. Also includes: Booklet of printed Testimonials of J.R. Coombes, Madras Provincial Civil Service, 1874 to 1907; Handwritten genealogical tree and notes on Coombes' family history, beginning with Thomas Coombes, LPC's great great grandfather (born 1748 in Buckland, Berkshire); Typescript of poem, 'A Perfect Fluke', by the Foozler, or P.C. Coombes (probably LPC); packet of souvenir postcards of various scenes in England; envelope of black and white postcards of Buckland, Berkshire (Coombes' family seat), some annotated; Miscellaneous photographs of LPC, Mrs. Nancy Coombes and unidentified subjects; printed brochures of historic sites, ephemera and news clipping. Correspondence including: letter to LPC from Sir Morien Morgan, Master of Downing College, Cambridge; letter of sympathy to Mrs J.R. Coombes on death of husband from A. Stuart, Dublin; letter to 'Mama, Sarah, Emma, Ruth' from unidentified writer, 16 November 1878; letter to 'Granny' (probably Mrs J.R. Coombes) from Shirley Coombes, with postscripts by LPC and Jo.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1859 - 1976    Quantity 2.7 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00273 Box Number 22 Series 14
14-14 Photograph Album I - Family

LPC family photograph album, including black and white photographs of family members, from birth of Shirley Coombes on 2 September 1938, to marriage of Jo Coombes and Blyth Johnson, 10 October 1959. Photographs have detailed captions and narrative text of main family events, probably written by Shirley or Jo. Album also includes: loose photographs of family members (most not captioned); a coloured sketch of LPC family tree; Envelope labelled 'Farnborough Amateur Dramatic Society, 'Sinbad the Sailor' (Business Manager Mrs N. Coombes)' containing programme, balance sheet and black and white photographs of pantomime.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1926 - 1959    Quantity 3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00274 Box Number 22 Series 14
14-15 Photograph Album II - World War I

Album includes: uncaptioned portrait photographs of LPC's friends in RAF during World War I; British aircraft in flight (BE 2E's); aerial view of London, St. Paul's Cathedral in foreground; loose photographs of BE 2E's in flight, Kingsford Smith, LPC with Kingsford Smith and other airmen, Burnley, England.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1914 - 1918    Quantity 3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00275 Box Number 22 Series 14
14-16 Photograph Album III - 'Coppa Schneider 1927'

LPC's Schneider Cup 1927 album. Album Cover illustrated by LPC, 1929. Album includes: black and white photographs of sea planes (S5), hotels, sites and competitors in Venice for Schneider Cup 1927; souvenir cards.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1927    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00276 Box Number 22 Series 14
14-17 Photograph Album IV - World War I

Album of black and white photographs taken while LPC was in the RNAS and RAF. Photographs include: British aircraft in World War I, in flight and grounded; LPC's friends and flying instructors; mess, officers' quarters, workshops and armoury, Etingham; HMS Argus.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1917? - 1919    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00277 Box Number 30 Series 14
14-18 Photograph Album V - USA 1938

Black and white photographs of LPC's trip to the Univted States in September, 1938. Subjects include: scenes aboard RMS Scythia; Massachussets institute of Technology; Harvard Library; California Institute of Technology.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1938    Quantity 1.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00278 Box Number 30 Series 14
14-19 Creative Work

The Book of Aeronauts, a fictitious satirical story about the Division of Aeronautics, CSIR, narrated by LPC. Commemmorative volume presented by the Division of Aeronautics, CSIR to Sir George Julius, December 1945.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1945    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00279 Box Number 30 Series 14
14-20 Children's Fiction

Ring binder folder containing children's story, hand written and illustrated in water colours by LPC, entitled Lalar's Diary ('with apologies to Jean de Brunhoff'). Based on the family life of LPC, Nancy, Shirley and Jo Coombes. Also includes loose leaf unfinished sketches and photocopies of text.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1940s    Quantity 2.8 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00280 Box Number 31 Series 14
14-21 Ephemera

Illustrated commemmorative menu for LPC's farewell dinner in RAF mess at MAEE, Felixstowe before transfer to RAE, Farnborough.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1930    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00281 Box Number 31 Series 14
14-22 Certificates

Hon. Fellow, RAS; Fellow, AIAA; Bachelor of Science, University of London.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1920 - 1964    Quantity 5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00282 Box Number 31 Series 14
14-23 Photograph Album VI - Tasmania

Album of black and white photographs of LPC and Mrs Nancy Coombes on holiday in Tasmania, probably during late 1940s or early 1950s. Photographs are not captioned.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1950? - 1960?    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00283 Box Number 23 Series 14
14-24 Photograph Album VII - 'Xmas at 46 Hopton Road, 1937'

Includes black and white photographs of LPC, Mrs Nancy Coombes, Shirley Coombes, Jo Coombes and 'Granny' (Mrs J.W. Coombes) at Hopton Road, Streatham, Christmas 1937, and photos of Easter holidays at Welland, 1938.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1937 - 1938    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00284 Box Number 23 Series 14
14-25 Loose photographs - 'Early Photos of Jo'

Collection includes: black and white photographs of Jo Coombes, Shirley Coombes, Mrs Nancy Coombes, Blyth Johnson; programme for Architects' Revue 1952, with Jo Coombes in cast, clipping from The Australian Women's Weekly, 4 June 1949 of photograph of Jo Coombes and fellow university students.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1949 - 1952    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00285 Box Number 23 Series 14
14-26 Family portraits and miscellaneous photographs

Assorted collection of photographic portraits includes: two black and white graduation photos of Shirley Coombes; Mrs Nancy Coombes and Shirley Coombes in wedding dress; colour portrait of 'Dr Macleish' (LPC's grandson?); two photos of LPC and Nancy Coombes in period costume; loose album sheet of photographs of party at Murphy St, South Yarra.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1955 - 1987    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00286 Box Number 23 Series 14
14-27 Photograph Sets - Investiture and 1964 Trip to England

File contains 3 sets of black and white photos, 6" x 8", and 6 coloured slides of LPC, Mrs Nancy Coombes, and neice Jennifer Kirk at LPC's CBE investiture, Buckingham Palace; news clipping, 'He's a proud CBE now', The Age, no date, c1964; letter from Jenny Kirk to Coombes' family, Melbourne, with enclosure of black and white photos of LPC, Nancy Coombes, LPC's sisters and brother-in-law in England; letter from Shirley Macleish to LPC; letter from LPC to Shirley and Jo; invitation to LPC from the Hon Julian Amery, Minister of Aviation, to reception for Society of British Aircraft Constructors' Flying Display and Exhibition, 7 September 1964; menu of 20th British Commonwealth Society Dinner, 15 October 1964; letter from S.Kenneth Davies, RAC, to LPC; letter from G/Cpt Norman Ryder to LPC.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1964    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00287 Box Number 23 Series 14
14-28 Photographs - HMAS Stuart Presentation

Loose collection of colour and black and white photographs, approximately 6" x 8", of LPC at presentation on board HMAS Stuart. Photographs not captioned.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1963?    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00288 Box Number 23 Series 14
14-29 Photograph Album VIII - Family

Loose leaf album of black and white photos, most not captioned, of Coombes' family's emigration to and early life in Victoria. Photographs include: LPC, Nancy, Shirley and Jo Coombes; LPC and Nancy in 1920s; Shirley's graduation; LPC at retirement dinner, 1964.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1920? - 1964    Quantity 1.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00289 Box Number 23 Series 14
14-30 Photograph Album IX - Overseas Trip 1950

Album of black and white photographs, not captioned, of LPC and Nancy's 1950 trip to England contains: photos of LPC and Nancy, relations, friends and places visited; sketch maps of routes and places in England; photographs taken in Canada while LPC attending 2nd Meeting of CAARC, Ottawa, September 1950; LPC's invitations to official functions while in England and Canada; clipping, 'Obituary' for Mr W.G.A. Perring, The Times, 10 April 1951; coloured photograph of Jo Coombes.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1950 - 1951    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00290 Box Number 23 Series 14
14-31 Photograph Album X - Miscellaneous, recent

Coloured photographs, not captioned, of family events includes LPC, Nancy, friends, grandchildren and LPC's 80th Brithday celebration, 9 April 1979. File also includes 3 black and white prints of LPC's grandson?.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1979 - 1981    Quantity 2.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00291 Box Number 23 Series 14
14-32 Loose Photographs - 'Wallabies'

Two plastic sleeves: one contains black and white photos, 3" x 4", uncaptioned, of Wallaby Club walks and 'Wallabies' (members and friends), includes Mrs Nancy Coombes and unidentified 'Wallabies'. LPC probably the photographer, locations unidentified, but probably include the Dandenong Range and the nearer Dividing Range; the other sleeve contains colour photographs of 'Wallaby'? Trip to Ballarat, Sovereign Hill, Clunes, photos include Nancy Coombes and unidentified Wallabies.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1960? - 1970s, 1960s? - early 1970s    Quantity 0.6 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00292 Box Number 24 Series 14
14-33 Colour Photographs - 'Wallaby' field trips

Envelope labelled by LPC 'Dr J. Bignell, 2 Whernside Ave, Toorak - Wallaby'. Colour prints, some captioned, including: Memorial tablet in Moliagul to John Flynn, originator of the Flying Doctor Service in the outback; 'Dr Bignold's grandmother's house (now derelict'), bluestone villa, somewhere in north central Victoria?; Memorial recording finding of 'Welcome Stranger' nugget, Dunolly?, Victoria; Inscription on the the 'Welcome Stranger' memorial; the mill at Smeaton; regrowth of trees snapped off by hurricane; disused farmhouse and renovated barn at Yandoit, built by Italian farmers; Town Hall, Clunes; Public Library, Clunes; Anglican Church, Clunes; Town Hall, Talbot. Also includes Nancy Coombes and unidentified 'Wallabies'.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1975 - 1977    Quantity 0.8 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00293 Box Number 24 Series 14
14-34 Loose photographs - Stanhope Bay

Black and white photos, 3" x 4", captioned, Stanhope Bay, Dogtrap Bay, Childers Cove, Cape Reamur (South Australia?) and unidentified group of men.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1960s, no date    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00294 Box Number 24 Series 14
14-35 Family Snapshots - Early Years in Melbourne

Assorted black and white photos, 3" x 4", most uncaptioned, include: Shirley and Jo Coombes as young girls and teenagers, at 45 Murphy St, South Yarra, and at beach (probably Mt Martha), with unidentified friends; Mrs Nancy Coombes, Shirley and Jo on board Oronsay, 1938 - 1939; LPC at the beach, and in rubber dinghy; Nancy Coombes at beach; LPC, Nancy Coombes, Shirley MacLeish, Jo Johnson and Louis Mathieson?, Vice Chancellor, Monash University, at awarding of Honorary Doctor of Engineering to LPC, 1975; photograph labelled 'Guess who? Old Gray!'; Mrs Ruth Coombes with Shirley? Coombes as baby, 1928; Shirley Coombes as toddler and young girl, 1930s. Most photos are of Shirley and Jo in Victoria, 1940s, 1950s.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1928 - 1975    Quantity 0.6 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00295 Box Number 24 Series 14
14-36 Photographs - Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary

Colour photographs of LPC and Nancy Coombes' sixtieth wedding anniversary at Leonard St (Jo and Blyth Johnson's home) including: LPC, Mrs Nancy Coombes, Blyth Johnson, Mandy and Sue Johnson, ?Wills; birthday cake; photo of birthday card; flowers.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1986    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00296 Box Number 24 Series 14
14-37 Photographic Emphemera - LPC and Friends

Colour photos of humorous greeting cards, probably made by LPC, include: LPC's eightieth birthday, 9 April 1979; LPC and Nancy Coombes 'dressed' as Venetian gondoliers; Nancy Coombes as 'Little Nancy Etticoat'; LPC and Nancy Coombes - photo captioned 'It's incredible! This is our 58th Christmas and we're still smiling!', 1984; LPC and group of men (ARL?), used for photo-collage greeting card, 'We shall miss you, Lucy and Arthur'; Christmas card from LPC and Nancy with photo-collage illustration of LPC, Nancy, Shirley, Jo, grandchildren and friends. Also includes one black and white photograph captioned by LPC: 'One of the illustrations in the Birthday Card I made for Arthur Wills' 80th birthday. It shows Arthur in centre, tempting Jackie Green (rt.) while Don Woods enjoys his meal. Don died a few years ago. (Taken during the War at a party)'; colour photo of birthday card, captioned 'Happy Birthday Charles', includes LPC, Nancy Coombes and unidentified friends, one of whom is probably 'Charles', Charles Davies (LPC's solicitor, 'Humphgart House', Mt Macedon).

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1960? - 1984    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00297 Box Number 24 Series 14
14-38 Miscellaneous Photographs

Includes: Sepia photograph of Mrs Nancy Coombes, captioned by LPC, 'Nancy just before we came to Australia', c1938; LPC and Nancy in period costume, captioned 'a photo of us in imitation of a past era'; Coombes' boat shed (No 113) at Mt Martha, with painted roller door; Mr J.R. Coombes and Mrs Ruth Coombes, labelled by LPC, 'My father and mother aged in their 40s', early 1900s?.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1900? - 1980?    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00298 Box Number 24 Series 14
14-39 Assorted Photographs - 'Our Selves'

Photos include: LPC and Nancy Coombes by car; 2 sepia prints of LPC by Sopwith Camel (World War I); LPC blowing out candles on 80th birthday cake, 1979; colour photo of Christmas card by LPC, depicting LPC and Nancy, dressed as members of London Walkabout Club.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1917? - 1979    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00299 Box Number 24 Series 14
14-40 Photos - LPC and Nancy

2 colour photos of LPC and Nancy Coombes at family celebration, Leonard St (home of Jo Johnson). Black and white passport size photographs of LPC and Nancy Coombes.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1960s - 1980s, 1960s? - mid 1980s?    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00300 Box Number 24 Series 14
14-41 Miscellaneous Photos - Coombes' friends

From envelope labelled 'Old Charles - Koalas' (identified by Mandy Johnson as Mt Macedon photos with wide date range), mostly colour photographs of 'Charles' entertaining guests, including Nancy Coombes and LPC, planting trees, and wildlife in the garden. Also includes photos of stuffed dogs, and joke photo of 'Charles' meeting 'naked lady' (photo collage with cut-out from 'Double Exposure', post card from Zeus Merfield to LPC, 1962). From envelope labelled 'Pattersons': colour photos, some captioned, of LPC and Nancy Coombes, Pattersons, Charles, Anthea (Charles' neice), Gordon Patterson, Arthur Wills and Alberta, and unidentified subjects. From envelope labelled 'Dances': colour photos of ?J.B.Dance (ARL) and wife; LPC, ?J.B. Dance and unidentified man; interior of Dance home. One black and white photo, 3" x 4", of LPC, ?J.B. Dance and Arthur Wills at official dinner.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1960s - 1970s, mid 1960s? - 1970s    Quantity 0.7 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00301 Box Number 24 Series 14
14-42 Assorted Photos - various subjects

Miscellany of colour photos includes: Two cars parked at Mt Macedon?; LPC and unidentified subject, probably at ARL; Nancy Coombes; LPC, Nancy Coombes and Jo Johnson. Colour photos labelled by LPC of: Ayres Rock, Falls Creek, Lake Hart, Diana MacLeish (1979), and Blyth Johnson's 'Mirror'.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1970s - 1980s    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00302 Box Number 24 Series 14
14-43 Photos and ephemera - Golf, Gum Trees and Gough [Whitlam]

An eclectic file which consists of 2 colour photos, captioned by LPC, 'Nancy takes Ian for a day's golf at Commonwealth Golf Club', 'Ian and Nancy near a flowering gum tree', pasted on back of page of LPC letter to unknown correspondent. Letter deals with contemporary Australian politics and LPC's views on Whitlam's Labour Government.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1970s, early 1970s    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00303 Box Number 24 Series 14
14-44 Negatives

Envelope, labelled 'Schneider Cup', of 18 black and white negatives of photographs of Schneider Cup, 1927.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1927    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00304 Box Number 24 Series 14
14-45 Photographs - Family Cards

Colour photographs of greeting cards depicting photos of Johnson and MacLeish children. Cards include: Philip, Jacki and Kristen MacLeish; Ian, Diana and Michael MacLeish; Felicity, Dierdre, Tim, Mandy and Susan Johnson.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1970s    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00305 Box Number 24 Series 14
14-46 Miscellaneous Slides - 'Wallaby' excursion

Cardboard box containing slides, mainly Wallaby Club excursion to Lorne, 1971. One slide labelled by LPC 'Wallaby - Lorne, Pennington and Sir Mac Burnet'.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1971    Quantity 2.8 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00306 Box Number 24 Series 14
14-47 Slide Box - 'Bangkok and Holland 1961'

Wooden slide box includes uncaptioned slides (some numbered by LPC) of places visited by LPC in Holland and Bangkok, 1961. Also includes aerial views.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1961    Quantity 6.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00307 Box Number 24 Series 14
14-48 Slide Box - 'India 1960; South Australia 1963'

Wooden slide box contains mainly slides of India, some captioned: Village scenes in Mysore; Monuments and tombs in Mysore; Mysore Zoo and Palace; UNESCO building and CSIR, Mysore; aerial views; Old Delhi; Taj Mahal; Aero Engineering Dept, Institute of Science, Bangalore; 'Bangalore - My Destination'; Seringapatam. Box also includes miscellaneous slides of UN building, New York; Unidentified women in evening dress; Pentagon building, Washington, DC; Sydney Harbour, 1959; Coombes' family, labelled 'Start at Essendon - Family Farewell'; 'En route to USA on the 707'; San Francisco airport; Eiffel Tower and Louvre, Paris.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1959 - 1960s    Quantity 6.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00308 Box Number 24 Series 14
14-49 Greeting cards with photos

Includes 2 Christmas cards illustrated with photographs of LPC and Nancy Coombes: 'It's Incredible! This is our 58th Christmas'; 'To Rosie and Nellie - Christmas 1976'.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1976 - 1984    Quantity 2.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00309 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-50 Personal Correspondence - Zeus Merfield

Letter to LPC from Zeus Merfield, Chicago, 1 October 1962. Envelope containing post card, entitled 'Double Exposure', to LPC from Zeus Merfield and advertising clipping for Escort Services, San Francisco.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1962    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00310 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-51 Family Photograph

Colour photo of Coombes' family group at 45 Murphy Street, South Yarra?, includes LPC, Nancy Coombes, Shirley Macleish, Blyth Johnson, grandsons and granddaughters.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1970s, Late 1970s?    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00311 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-52 Photographs - 'Amblers' House in Alma Road'

Envelope labelled by LPC containing 4 black and white snapshots of Ward-Amblers' house and garden, Alma Road, St Kilda, and Ward-Amblers' cottage, Mt Martha, 1940.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1940    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00312 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-53 Slides - 'Canada'

Cardboard slide box containing colour slides, uncaptioned and undated, of LPC's travels in Canada.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1970s    Quantity 1.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00313 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-54 Slides - 'Stratford-on-Avon'

Colour slides, uncaptioned and undated, of Stratford-on-Avon. Includes street and village scenes, thatched cottages, the Avon river and unidentified graveyard.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1976?    Quantity 1.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00314 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-55 Slides - 'No.1: England August 1976 - Streatham'

Box also annotated 'Start July 1976 - Homeward Journey'. Slides of LPC and Nancy Coombes' trip to England, 3 July 1976 including: Nancy Coombes, Ruth Coombes, Keith Coombes, David ?Coombes at Streatham; Floss ?Coombes, Rene Coombes and Nancy Coombes at Coulsdon; Lala Kouvarine. Most captioned.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1976    Quantity 3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00315 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-56 Slides - 'No.2: Tobers Green and Eagle has Landed'

Colour slides include: Tobers Green and the Falcons (?) family in England; Props and locations for film 'Eagle Has Landed' at Maple Durham, England. Most slides captioned.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1976    Quantity 3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00316 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-57 Slides - 'No.3: England August 1976 - Northampton, Bridgnorth, Ludlow'

Colour slides include: Joan Stewart's house at Olney; Castle Ashby, Norhamptonshire; Church, 'Family Vault in graveyard'; Ludlow; Church Streton, Shropshire; church, street scenes in Northampton; Stratford; Bridgnorth.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1976    Quantity 3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00317 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-58 Slides - 'No.4: Streatham, Luton Hoo, Blenheim, Windsor, RAF Memorial'

Colour slides include Bladon, Blenheim Palace, RAF Memorial at Runnemeade, and Gerrards Cross.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1976    Quantity 3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00318 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-59 Slides - 'No.5: Cambridge, Blockley'

Includes: Downing College, Cambridge; Morien Morgan, Master of Downing College; Darwin's house, Cambridge; Peterhouse; St Catherine's; King's College; Nancy Coombes with Prof and Mrs Morgan; Blockley, 'Dorrie (Mrs Dorothy Speakman, LPC's sister), Mary and Nana (Nancy)'; Blockley Church and Old Mill House.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1976    Quantity 3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00319 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-60 Slides - 'No.6: Westcote House; Farnborough'

Includes: Westcote House, Chipping Camden; Farnborough, 'SBAC show', 'aircraft park', 'spinning A/C', 'Lockspeiser 01', 'Directors' enclosure with Sir R. Cockburn, Vera and Haydn Templeton'.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1976    Quantity 3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00320 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-61 'Odd Slides - Canada etc'

Miscellaneous, uncaptioned and undated slides of Canadian scenes, landscapes, aerial views, LPC eating corn on the cob, and 'McKenzie King's country house'.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1970s    Quantity 5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00321 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-62 Slides - 'Tasmania'

Colour slides, uncaptioned, including Burnie Paper Mill, electrolytic zinc works at Roseberry, and scenes of Zeehan.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1967    Quantity 5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00322 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-63 Slides - 'Flight to UK - 1961?; Ian and Philip 1961'

First part of LPC's label unclear, box does not contain UK transparencies. Uncaptioned slides of LPC's grandsons, Ian and Philip Macleish at Mt Martha. Also includes group photo of Shirley and Scotty Macleish, Jo and Blyth Johnson, each pair holding unidentified babies.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1961    Quantity 2.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00323 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-64 Slides - 'Farnboro', 1959

Uncaptioned slides of Farnborough Air Show. Box includes views of airborne jets, unidentified castle, houses and friends.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1959    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00324 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-65 Slides - 'Spares: Bangkok trip'

Includes some European slides. Uncaptioned scenes, buildings, aerial views and people in Bangkok.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1970s    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00325 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-66 Slides - Box 1: 'Schneider Cup'

Box contains 6 glass black and white slides of the Schneider Cup contest. Uncaptioned except for 'Gloster IV'.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1927?    Quantity 2.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00326 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-67 Slides - Box 2: 'Schneider Cup, Kingsford Smith'

Includes some glass black and white slides and colour transparencies of the Shneider Cup contest.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1913 - 1980    Quantity 2.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00327 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-68 Slides - 'Mrs D. Speakman'

Slide box labelled: 'Mrs D. Speakman, The Old Quarry, Blockley, Moreton-on-Marsh, England. Includes mainly Victorian landscapes, some captioned "Wallaby - Lorne'. Processed 1972.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1972?, prob. 1972    Quantity 3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00328 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-69 Slides - 'CAARC 1962'

2 Boxes of uncaptioned colour slides of scenes and places visited, probably on way to and from CAARC Conference, 1962. Also people connected with CAARC. Also includes Shirley Macleish, Jo Johnson and Philip Macleish.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1962    Quantity 3.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00329 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-70 Slides - 'Grandchildren, March 1968'

Uncaptioned colour slides of LPC's grandchildren.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1968    Quantity 2.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00330 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-71 Slides - 'Family, Children'

Colour slides, some captioned, of Johnson and Macleish children.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1964 - 1968    Quantity 2.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00331 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-72 Slides - 'Summer 1965'

Uncaptioned colour slides of LPC's grandchildren.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1965    Quantity 2.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00332 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-73 Slides - 'Mt Martha, Mid 1965'

Colour slides, most captioned, including: Ian, Michael and Diana Macleish; Felicity and Deirdre Johnson; Sir Lawrence Wackett's house; Mt Martha scenes, 1965.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1965    Quantity 3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00333 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-74 Slides - 'Mt Martha: Miss Crellin, Philip, ?Gram., Charles and June'

Assorted slides, no captions.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1960s    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00334 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-75 Slides - 'Mt Martha, January 1967'

Assorted slides, mainly of family members on holidays or at weekends.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1967    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00335 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-76 Slides - 'Mt Martha, February 1962'

Assorted slides of Coombes' family members.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1962    Quantity 2.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00336 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-77 Slides - 'Mt Martha'

Miscellaneous slides of Mt Martha and family. Undated.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1960s    Quantity 2.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00337 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-78 Slides - 'London 1959'

Uncaptioned assorted slides of scenes in and around London.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1959    Quantity 2.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00338 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-79 Slides - 'Sydney'

Contains only 2 slides, uncaptioned.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1960s    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00339 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-80 Slides - 'Newcastle and New England, April 1966'

Includes slides, most captioned, of scenic trip to Newcastle, Nambucca Heads, Watagan Mountains, and BHP Steelworks.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1966    Quantity 3.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00340 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-81 Slides - 'Queensland'

Includes mostly uncaptioned slides of places visited in Queensland. Undated.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1960s    Quantity 2.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00341 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-82 Slides - 'Gippsland Tour 1974'

Assorted uncaptioned slides of places visited in Gippsland.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1974    Quantity 2.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00342 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-83 Slides - 'Hobart 1967'

Assorted slides of places and people in Tasmania.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1967    Quantity 2.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00343 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-84 Slides - 'Hong Kong, Canton'

Label partly illegible. Assorted slides, most uncaptioned and undated.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1960s    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00344 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-85 Assorted Slides

Includes Macleish children, the Vicarage, Christ Church, South Yarra, 45 Murphy St, Tasmania.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1967    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00345 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-86 Unboxed Slides - Wallaby Club

Bundle includes slides of Wallaby Club excursions to Blackwood and Lorne. 'Wallabies' include: Arthur Wills, Dr Gregory, Ces Sanders, Dr Lionel Bull, Arthur Day, Nancy Coombes, Dr Pennington (Apollo Bay), Ian Bainbridge, Harold Moore, Dick Southby, Harold Feint, and Alan Gordon.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1965 - 1971    Quantity 1.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00346 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-87 Unboxed Assorted Slides

Miscellaneous slides of grandchildren and friends.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1964    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00347 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-88 Unboxed Assorted Slides

Assorted slides of family and friends at annual Christmas gatherings.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1958 - 1964    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00348 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-89 Unboxed Assorted Slides

Unidentified people and places. Processed 1963.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1963    Quantity 3.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00349 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-90 Assorted Slides - 'Grandchildren'

Processed 1965.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1965    Quantity 2.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00350 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-91 Wooden Box of Slides

Collection of assorted, mainly colour slides, most uncaptioned, but numbered by LPC. Includes: Shirley, Scotty and Philip Macleish; Interstate trips and places visited - ?Canberra, Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric scheme, NSW, Parkes Observatory, Tasmania; slides labelled 'India - Rejects'; 16 glass black and white slides, possibly of activities held to commemmorate LPC's retirement as Chief Superintendant of ARL, Melbourne; 1 glass black and white slide of airmen standing beside World War I aircraft.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1917? - 1964, mostly 1964    Quantity 5.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00351 Box Number 25 Series 14
14-92 Assorted Slides

Red plastic box of assorted slides, some captioned, on various subjects including: Queensland - Magnetic and Green Islands; NSW - Port Stephens, Newcastle (BHP), Armidale, Taree, Williamtown; Victoria - St Matthew's Church, Glenroy, designed by Blyth Johnson; 'Painting I did for Hartnetts', LPC's painting of boatsheds and dinghys; 'My Painting at Murphy St', LPC's painting of townscape; 'Nana's Birthday', 1974; 'London 1964 - Lord Mayor's Show'; Nancy Coombes - 'Xmas'; Jo and Blyth Johnson; Michael Macleish; 'Streatham ?1960, Kang, Dorrie, Rene' (LPC's sisters). Also includes colour negatives of unidentified places, probably England.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1957 - 1974    Quantity 7 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00352 Box Number 32 Series 14
14-93 Slides - 'England 1964'

Wooden box of slides, most uncaptioned, of family, friends and places visited in England and en route to England. Also includes three glass colour slides of 'Jo with John Cummins' and 'Jo at Fourways', 1955.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1955 - 1964    Quantity 6.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00353 Box Number 32 Series 14
14-94 Family Photographs 1958

Collection of black and white photographs, 3" x 4", pasted on loosesheets of tissue paper, and captioned by LPC. Subjects include LPC, Nancy Coombes and Philip Macleish. Sheets labelled: 'Our Rolling Stone', Philip Macleish; 'Leaving for England 19 September 1958', Shirley and Scotty Macleish's trip; 'Take-off'; 'At the Gardens'; 'Corn on the Cob'.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1958    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00354 Box Number 26 Series 14
14-95 Photographs - CSIR Ski Hut and Mt Buller

2 sheets of black and white photographs, 3" x 4", captioned by LPC, include the CSIR Ski Hut, group of unidentified people, ?Shirley and Scotty Macleish, Jo Coombes and the summit hut on Mt Buller.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1950s, mid 1950s?    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00355 Box Number 26 Series 14
14-96 Family Photographs - Macleish

1 sheet, entitled 'Australia - Melbourne', of black and white photographs, 3" x 3", of Philip Macleish as baby, Scotty and ?Shirley Macleish, and godfather Philip McAuley.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1957?    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00356 Box Number 26 Series 14
14-97 Family Photographs - Voyage to England 1956

4 sheets, entitled 'On the Himalaya', of black and white photographs, 3" x 3", of recreation aboard the Himalaya, Nancy Coombes and fellow passengers.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1956    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00357 Box Number 26 Series 14
14-98 Family Photographs - England 1956

2 sheets, labelled 'Felixstowe' and 'England', of black and white photogrpahs, 3" x 3" include: Nancy and Jo Coombes with friends at Felixstowe Golf Club; Bawdsey; Windsor, Nell Gwynn's House; Windsor Castle.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1956    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00358 Box Number 26 Series 14
14-99 Photographs - Majorca 1956

4 sheets of black and white photographs of sites visited in Majorca by LPC, Nancy and Jo Coombes in 1956.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1956    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00359 Box Number 26 Series 14
14-100 Family Photographs - Don (Scotty) Macleish

1 sheet entitled 'The Merman' of black and white photographs, 3" x 4", of Scotty Macleish in skin-diving gear, Nancy Coombes and Shirley Macleish.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1950s, early 1950s?    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00360 Box Number 26 Series 14
14-101 Family Photograph Album (XI) - 'Holiday on Wheels 1959'

Album, entitled 'Holiday on Wheels - Sketches by Booze', of black and white photographs, captioned and annotated by LPC of trip through NSW. Photographs include: Nancy Coombes, Jo Coombes and friends Ian and Patsy Davis, Cooma; Betty and Ferguson?, 'Myalla', Cooma; Wagga Wagga; Canberra, Cotter Dam, National War Museum; Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric and Irrigation Scheme, and T1 Power Station; Adaminaby Dam; Eucumbene Lookout; Sydney, 'the McCutcheon's house, Pymble', and North Head; Palm Beach, 'At Mrs Friend's House'; 'Rolling Home by the Coast Road'; Pambula Beach; Jo and Blyth Johnson and their new house in Hawthorne. Album also includes loose black and white photographs of LPC, Jo Coombes, and ?Macleish grandson. Map of the Snowy Mountains Scheme. Envelope addressed to Mrs D.G. Macleish containing British Money Order for five pounds sterling. Clipping from the Age, no date, 'Parking Survey by Young Town Planner', about Jo Coombes and local parking survey for Ballarat.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1959    Quantity 0.6 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00361 Box Number 26 Series 14
14-102 Ephemera

Brown vellum strip, 3" x 7", inscribed 'National Aeronautical Laboratory Bangalore' in gold lettering.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1960?    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00362 Box Number 26 Series 14
14-103 Family Photographs - England, Australia

Assorted collection of black and white photographs of various sizes, most taken by LPC, of Coombes' family members and friends. Photographs from envelope labelled 'War time' include: Jo Coombes; 'Dorrie in France'; H.A.F. Goodison (RAF officer); ?Sopwith Camels; aerial view of 'Windsor Castle taken in 1918'; 'RAF Reserve training at Renfrew, Scotland 1924'; photo post card of 2 airmen in ?Sopwith Camel from J?. Carr to LPC; letter to LPC from 'Robbie' Robinson. Photographs, 4" x 5", of Mrs Nancy Coombes, Shirley and Jo Coombes with the Ward-Amblers at Wind tunnel, Bayside, Melbourne, en route to ARL, 1940. From envelope labelled 'Visit to Keith [LPC's brother] and Ena 1946 (or was it 1944?)', captioned photographs include Keith and Ena Coombes, Portchester? House, Harriet Hughes and Margaret Tracy. From envelope labelled 'Photos of our first dog Judy taken in 1944 (given to the Fordys when we left for Australia)', photographs include LPC with dog Judy. From envelope labelled 'Farnboro' and Felixstowe', photographs mostly taken in mid 1930s include: Shirley Coombes and friends at Felixstowe beach, Shirley at Coombebury, Jo Coombes, LPC, Nancy Coombes, Elsibel and 'Robbie' Robinson, Keith Coombes and Tina ? (Keith's girlfriend) at Wynchlea. From Kodak envelope, uncaptioned photographs include Nancy Coombes, Shirley and Jo Coombes in acacademic gowns, Scotty Macleish, unidentified lady on horseback (Mrs Ward-Ambler?). Assorted photographs include: Shirley Coombes at Felixstowe [damaged photograph]; Nancy Coombes; the Coronation Procession, 1937; 'Miss Murphy's (Mrs Coxon's) daughter Ann and Judy's pups'; 'Streatham 1944 near Station and 27 Hopton Rd'; 'Hopton Road 1946 after Kathleen and Frank returned after it was repaired'. From envelope incorrectly labelled 'Old Photos Farnborough, Jo's 21st etc', a portrait photograph of LPC, undated but probably 1950s. Loose leaf (p 21) from ring-binder photograph album, entitled 'A Mixed Bag from South Yarra' includes 3 photographs of LPC, Nancy Coombes, Shirley Coombes and LPC's badly dented car. Loose sheet of 2 photographs originally entitled 'Lockyer's House, Cambridge', but annotated in pencil '1950 The Late W.G.A. Perrin's House at Camberley'.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1918 - 1950?, mostly 1930s and 1940s    Quantity 1.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00363 Box Number 26 Series 14
14-104 Photographic Portraits and Ephemera

Portraits include: Shirley Coombes' graduation; Shirley Coombes and Scotty Macleish in graduation gowns; 2 weddings of unidentified family members, one of whom is probably Jennifer Kirk, in London; baby's bassinet decorated in frills and blue ribbon. Black and White photographs, 3" x 4", of Shirley and Jo Coombes with friend 'Christopher' in garden, England. Ephemera includes: Page of letter from Nancy Coombes, aboard P&O Strathnaver, to LPC, Shirley and Jo, undated; Water colour painting of house and garden, annotated on back 'Jo aged 4 and a half'; sheet of typescript entitled 'Jo's Pugilistic Encounters'; Pencil sketches entitled 'Belles of St Belmont'; clipping of 'Out 'n About' column from the Age?, no date.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1928? - 1950s    Quantity 1.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00364 Box Number 26 Series 14
14-105 Assorted Family Photographs and Portraits

From hard cover sleeve entitled 'Portraits from Norman May Studio, Malvern', black and white portraits include: wedding of Jo Coombes and Blyth Johnson, 1959; Jennifer Kirk (LPC's niece) as young girl; Shirley Coombes as teenager. Photographs include LPC, Nancy Coombes and Macleish grandsons.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1930? - 1959    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00365 Box Number 26 Series 14
14-106 'Photos not required for album' - Part I; Assorted, 1928 - 1939

Collection of black and white photographs, some captioned and dated, of Coombes' family members and friends in England pre-1939. Photographs include: LPC, Nancy Coombes, Shirley and Jo Coombes, Judy the dog, Jim and Rene Kirk, Keith Coombes and Tina (Keith's girlfriend), Florence Coombes, Kathleen Call, Ruth Coombes, Frank Coombes, Elsibel and Robbie Robinson, Lady Sharpe, and Lala Kouvarine. Also includes photograph of certificate granting Hon Life Membership of MAEE, Felixstowe to Bernard Claude Horace Cross, 5 December 1928.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1928 - 1939    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00366 Box Number 26 Series 14
14-107 'Photos not required for album' - Part II; 'Streatham before Jo', 1925 - 1935

Collection of black and white photographs, some captioned and dated of Coombes' family and friends in England, pre-1939. Most photographs are of Shirley as a young girl. Photographs include: LPC, Nancy Coombes, Shirley Coombes, Jo Coombes, 'the maid' Aida, the Rev J.W. Coombes, Flossie (Florence) Coombes, Kathleen Call, Keith Coombes, Jim Kirk, Lady Sharpe, Elsobel and 'Robbie' Robinson, and Lala Kouvarine (neighbour at Farnborough). Also includes: LPC and B.D. Clark at Farnborough, 1925; ? Boothman; Vicarage at Welland, the Rev J.W. Coombes' parish; Nancy Coombes, Fred David, June Swinburne, Judy Henzall, Jo and Shirley Coombes at Mt Martha, Xmas 1951.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1925 - 1951    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00367 Box Number 26 Series 14
14-108 Assorted Photographs - 'Old Photos (Not Children)'

From large buff envelope labelled 'Old Photos Not Children', a collection of captioned black and white photographs of Coombes' family members and friends in England, taken mainly during the 1920s and 1930s. From envelope labelled 'Old Flames!', captioned photographs include: Mrs Long and Mdme Pirani Venice 1927; Andree Claire 1924; Sybil Russell 1920; Mildred Scully 1920; Mrs Boggis 1932; Lady Sharp 1931; Gladys Allen 1920; Nancy Cording 1925; LPC and Harriet Hughes S.S. Scythia 1938. Also includes 'B.D. Clark, J.M. Gray, (Scotsman), Larrat - At the RAE 1924'. From envelope labelled 'Jennifer and Ruth' (?nieces in England), photographs include Ruth Coombes, Keith Coombes, Jennifer Kirk, Rene Kirk. Miscellaneous Coombes' family photographs, taken in England 1925 - 1944, include LPC, Nancy Coombes, Shirley and Jo Coombes, Kathleen Coombes, Frank ? (Kathleen's 2nd husband), Jack Speakman, 'Cousin Wilfred', 'Uncle Jos' (Rev J.W. Coombes), 'Uncle Percy', Jim and Rene Kirk, and Floss (Florence) Coombes. Assorted photographs of LPC and Nancy Coombes' friends in England include: Gladys Armstrong; Tina Cantrell - 'Keith's girl 1938'; Hilda Emmett, Felixstowe 1937; Nellie Cockburn, Newcastle 1923; Gerald Hudson of 204 TDs in Barbados; LPC with Armstrong family, Newcastle 1923; C.L. Berg 1920; Lala Kouvarine? 1946; Doris Armstrong at Wynchlea House 1938; W.D. Douglas (RAE); Dr and Mrs Winn with Nancy, Blue Mtns 1939; Thomsetts with Mrs Ruth Coombes; Jock and Phil Gray at Coronation 1937; Alan Billington; Odette Levey 1941; June Harper; and June Swinburne, Mrs Swinburne and Lady Chauvel at Shirley Coombes' 21st birthday. Collection also includes family and friends' houses in England: Dorrie's house at Newton le Willows (Lancs) 1925 and 'Fourways', Culcheth; McKinnon Woods' house, built out of an old barn, near Farnborough, 1936. Miscellaneous photographs taken in England and Australia include: LPC's lawn mower, captioned 'My conversion of lawn mower to electricity'; 2 photographs labelled 'Photo taken by me [LPC] 1913'; LPC at Turlee (Mt Martha); Sea Plane tank, Farnborough; Farnboro' single quarters 1924; LPC, Nancy Coombes, Shirley and Jo, Scotty Macleish at Burnham Beeches, Dandenong Ranges 1954; and Mt Martha - rough sea. Ephemera includes: Xmas card from Sgt Corollo (USA), undated; "Welcome to Sydney" card from Sir George Julius to LPC; Xmas cards illustrated with photographs from Dr and Mrs Wilfred Attenborough, Farnborough (Nancy's doctor).

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1913 - 1954, mainly 1920s, 1930s    Quantity 1.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00368 Box Number 26 Series 14
14-109 Ephemera - Cards, Mementos and Wartime Travel Documents (UK)

Cards and Mementos include: Dance Card and pencil, marked 'Dick Chenoweth'; Xmas card to LPC and Nancy Coombes from Uncle Jos, Welland (Glos); Xmas Cards to LPC and Nancy from Wilfred ('Nancy's doctor') and Cristobel Attenborough, Milfred-on-sea (Hants); Newspaper clipping of 'News of the Day' column by Stuart Sayers, the Age?, on visit by airman-scientist Lt-Gen James Doolittle to ARL, Fisherman's Bend. Undated clipping also includes photograph of LPC with Doolittle and Dr F.S. Shaw. Envelope labelled '1944 Travel documents on US Transport Command to UK and return' includes: Luggage ticket issued by US Army Air Forces; 'Instructions to Deplaned Passengers 7 April 1944'; Allied Civilian Trans-Pacific Air Travel Request form, completed by LPC, and signed by J.D.E. Hood ,Dept of External Affairs, Nelson T. Johnson, American Legation, and Capt John R. Keegan, General Headquarters, Southwest Pacific Area, 13 March 1944. Ephemera also includes: 'King Neptune' Certificates for LPC and Nancy Coombes, on board SS Strathnaver; Typescript entitled 'Jo's War Diary'; colour pencil sketch entitled 'Come Along, Shirley!' and annotated 'Our very Arch Deacon Foxgrove-Robinson Takes the Waters'. Official correspondence includes letter, marked "Secret", to LPC from H.F.V. Battle, Air Commodore, Chief Overseer at Ministry of Aircraft Production, Millbank, 23 May 1944, and map of Hatfield Airfield, London.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1939 - 1952    Quantity 1.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00369 Box Number 26 Series 14
14-110 Artistic Work

Wood block print, 19 x 24 cm, of Commonwealth Golf Club, Melbourne?, signed by LPC. Undated.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1960s    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00370 Box Number 26 Series 14
14-111 Photographic Netatives - Rolls

7 rolls of photo. negative labelled: 'Wedding'; 'Duggie's Wedding'; 'CAARC 1955'; 'Turlee - Koala ?1953 or 1954'; '1953?'; 'Architects - Womens College'.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1953 - 1957    Quantity 2.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00371 Box Number 26 Series 14
14-112 Photographic Glass Plates

Box of Kodak glass plates, 4" x 3" approx., includes some blank/overexposed plates and 3 developed plates of dolls'? house and doll's furniture. Undated. Plates made in Australia.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1940s    Quantity 3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00372 Box Number 26 Series 14
14-113 Photographs - World War I

Collection of 30 black and white photographs, most captioned by LPC, includes: 'My Camel in air over Eastchurch aerodrome'; 'LPC and Camel'; 'Capt C [LPC] and Lt Hudson outside "The Cottage", Officer quarters at Eastchurch'; 'LPC, Lt Hudson and pupils of 2 Sth Camel flight at Eastcvhurch'; 'Barnstorming at Burkley, Lancs., incls. Mechanic, LPC and Kingsford Smith'; 'Group of Instructors of 204 TDS, incls. Kingsford Smith seated in front; 'Lt Hudson and Capt Coombes'; 'Lt Hudson's Camel'; 'Crash at Eastchurch - pupil taking off'; 'Sgt Rowley 210 Sq. France'; 'My Camel at Eastchurch'; 'Formation flying at Eastchurch on Aero 504s'; 'Fatal crash at Eastchurch, Lt Pick and ?'.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1916? - 1918    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00373 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-114 Photographs - 'Felixstowe'

From envelope labelled 'Felixstowe', black and white photographs, most dated and captioned, include: Nancy Coombes and Mrs Warden, 1926; Doris Armstrong, Felixstowe 1927; Cousin Wilfred; Shirley Coombes and Jack Speakman, Felixstowe 1929; Beach at Felixstowe; 'Boothman (Schneider Cup Winner), later Sir John, carrying Hilda Emmett and Mrs Edmonds'; Lady Sharper, Felixstowe 1932; Mr and Mrs Wardle; Nancy Coombes and Boothman; Nancy Coombes and Shirley; Mt Martha - 'Judy avoids the waves'.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1926 - 1940?    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00374 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-115 Photographs - 'Uncle Jos'

Black and white photographs from envelope labelled 'Uncle Jos' (Rev J.W. Coombes, LPC's uncle), include: 'Uncle Jos's memorial window', Rev Coombes' church at Welland; 'Uncle Jos and Thomsett'; 'Welland 1930'; 'Nancy with Mr Evans Cadillac 1932'; 'Outside Welland Vicarage looking towards Malvern Hills'; 'Corner of Uncle Jos's garden'. Also includes post card to Shirley Coombes from Budapest, postmarked 1922 and inscribed 'The Blue Danube flows here', probably from Uncle Jos.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1922 - 1932    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00375 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-116 Photographs - 'Historic Photos'

From envelope labelled 'Historic Photos', black and white photos, some captioned and mounted, include: 'LPC and Flossie' (LPC as infant about 10mths old); LPC as infant (2 prints); J.R. Coombes and Mrs. Ruth C. Coombes (LPC's parents), taken in Madras c1900 [also 1 restored copy and negative]; Nancy Coombes as young woman; grave and headstone of Caroline Pincott (LPC's maternal grandmother?); photos of greeting cards depicting LPC and Nancy.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1899 - 1985?    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00376 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-117 Photographs - 'Shirley and Jo, Early Pictures'

From envelope labelled 'Shirley and Jo - Early Pictures', black and white photographs, most uncaptioned include: Shirley Coombes and Jo Coombes as toddlers and young girls at Felixstowe; Nancy Coombes with Shirley as baby; Shirley at 15? years; Jo Coombes, 1933; Shirley Coombes, Amber and Aubrey Barr; unidentified friends.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1928 - 1943    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00377 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-118 Photographs and Negatives - '1950 Trip'

From envelope labelled '1950 Trip', black and white photographs include Nancy Coombes in 'garden party dress', Nancy on board Strathnaver and LPC and Nancy in Colombo.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1950    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00378 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-119 Negatives - Felixstowe

3 envelopes of black and white negatives, one labelled 'Old Negs', another 'Good Negs - print' and one unlabelled, include: Nancy Coombes, Shirley and Jo Coombes as babies, toddlers and young girls at Felixstowe; unidentified subjects, probably Coombes' family members.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1928? - 1930s    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00379 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-120 Negatives - 'Hastened Flight to UK 1953'

Black and white negatives from envelope labelled by LPC 'Hastened flight to UK 1953. Prof Stephens and I to attend CAARC meeting'.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1953    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00380 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-121 Negative - Shirley Coombes

One colour negative of Shirley Coombes in Graduation gown.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1952    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00381 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-122 Negatives - Shneider Cup

15 black and white negatives of Schneider Cup, 1927.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1927    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00382 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-123 Assorted Family Photographs - Shirley and Jo, England

Black and white photographs, some contact prints, mainly of Shirley and Jo Coombes as young children in England. Photographs also include: LPC, Nancy Coombes, Edie (the maid), Rev J.W. Coombes, 'Floss, Kang and Frank', Hilda Emmett, 'Robbie' Robinson and unidentified friends. Also includes 4 negs.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1929 - 1938    Quantity 0.7 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00383 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-124 Assorted Family Photographs - Shirley and Jo, Australia

Black and white photographs of Shirley and Jo Coombes in Australia, most taken in early 1950s. Also includes LPC, Nancy Coombes, Judy the dog, Scotty Macleish, Jaquie? Ward-Ambler and unidentified friends.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1938 - 1953?    Quantity 0.8 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00384 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-125 Miscellaneous Photographs

Envelope of assorted black and white photographs includes: RAF crew, World War I; unidentified machinery, from an aeroplane?; Nancy Coombes, Shirley and Jo Coombes with guests at 'Turlee', Mt Martha. Also includes colour photograph of LPC and Lady Chauvel? at Shirley Coombes'? wedding. Back of photo stamped 'Photo by Zeus Merfield'.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1917? - 1954?    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00385 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-126 Miscellaneous Portraits

From hard back folder 'Portraits from Norman Mays Studio, Malvern, UK, an assorted collection of black and white portraits of various subjects includes: RAF Officer, Geraldf Hudson; 'Pantomime at Farnboro' about 1935'; Photograph of sketch of 'Sir Charles Parsons
drawn by Joe Stobart of Drawing Office (C.A. Parsons, Newcastle c1923)'; Coronation coach - 'taken at Coronation procession of King George VI', 1937.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1918 - 1937    Quantity 1.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00386 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-127 Family Portraits

Collection of Coombes' family portraits, most black and white, some tinted includes: LPC, Shirley Coombes, Jo Coombes, Jennifer Kirk (LPC's neice), Rev J.W. Coombes and unidentified subject.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1939? - 1951?    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00387 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-128 Photographs - 'Old Portraits, Groups'

From envelope labelled 'Old Portraits, Groups', 3 black and white photographs, one labelled by LPC 'Junior Scientific Staff RAE 1924', another identified as Hilda Emmett, 1938.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1924 - 1938    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00388 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-129 Photographs and Ephemera - ARL Personnel

Black and white uncaptioned photographs include LPC and unidentified ARL Staff and VIPs at demonstration of 'Simulation of Aircraft Flutter on Analogue Computer' and 'Fatigue Test'. Also includes humorous pencil sketch by LPC satirising the Public Service Board (PSB) and 'Pseudo Scientists'.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1960s, early 1960s?    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00389 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-130 Photographs - Family Events

From envelope labelled 'Photos - Philip's Wedding and Michael's degree', 2 colour portraits include: LPC, Nancy Coombes, Shirley Macleish, Philip Macleish and bride at Philip's wedding; Michael Macleish in graduation gown.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1980s, mid 1980s    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00390 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-131 Portraits - Family Weddings

Black and white mounted photo portraits include the wedding of Shirley Coombes to Donald Macleish (1955), and 'Wedding of Keith [LPC's brother] to Ena, Mother (Mrs J.R. Coombes on Keith's left)'.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1940s - 1955, late 1940s?    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00391 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-132 Photograph - Period Costume Portrait

Black and white enlargement, 10 x 12, of LPC and Nancy Coombes dressed in period costume (early nineteenth century?) and posed in front of grandfather clock.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1980s    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00392 Box Number 30 Series 14
14-133 Photographs - 'CAARC Party at 45 Murphy St 1956'

From envelope labelled as above, black and white photographs, assorted sizes of LPC, Nancy Coombes and unidentified guests at CAARC party held at Coombes' home, 45 Murphy St, South Yarra in 1956. Includes photo-collages of guests. Also includes photo of LPC and ? Wills, captioned 'Taken when Wills left the lab last Oct. to go to our Head Office'.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1956    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00393 Box Number 31 Series 14
14-134 Slides - Miscellaneous

Wooden slide box includes slides of LPC in Canada (1957); LPC in Canberra (1958); CAARC (UK); CAARC (Canada); Shirley Macleish, Ian Macleish and Philip Macleish; CACDS.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1950s    Quantity 7 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00394 Box Number 32 Series 14
14-135 Photographs - ARL and CAARC

Photographs removed from red ring binder folder. Black and white photographs include: '?Farewell to H.A. Wills - Montage of many photos'; 'Miss Nylam, Joan Howlett, D. Evan, M.Gamble' (ARL secretaries?); LPC fixing his car; unidentified personnel of ARL; 'McDonough Memorial' - gatehouse at entrance to ARL; Lt Gen James H. Doolittle visit to ARL, Fisherman's Bend, 10 May 1956; 'Sir David Rivett and Sir Bev Lockspeiser washing up at CAARC party at 45 Murphy St', 1948; LPC and 2 unidentified subjects at ARL, 17 October 1958; CAARC party at 45 Murphy St, 1956; CAARC barbecue near Marysville, includes Woods, Wills, W.G.A. Perring (Director of RAE), and Prof Cherry; ?ARL engineers, 1956; photo-montage of ARL personnel, 17 October 1958.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1938 - 1958    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00395 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-136 Photographs and Ephemera - ARL and CAARC

Loose leaf album sheets of black and white photographs of CAARC delegates at 1948 meeting include G.C Watt, T.F.C. Lawrence, Prof T.M. Cherry, Prof A.V. Stephens, Dr J.H. Parkin, E.C. Wackett, Lockspeiser, A.M James, H.B. Howard, Sir David Rivett, Dr M.W. Woods, H.A. Wills and LPC. Photographs also include ARL personnel and Nancy Coombes. Ephemera includes hand made card by LPC, 'Disclamation of Responsibility'; joke letter to LPC appointing him member of the 'Bargee Caste' during his visit to India; ARL Christmas cards; Menu from Hotel Australia, 19 May 1949, for dinner in honour of David Rivett and Arnold Richardson.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1948 - 1950?, 1948 - mid 1950s?    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00396 Box Number 27 Series 14
14-137 Oversize Photograph, Sketch Book and Ephemera

Includes: mounted black and white photograph of LPC dressed as Elvis Presley; LPC's sketch pad; and assorted oversize ephemera such as greeting cards.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1960s - 1970s    Quantity 3 cm,
Inventory Identifier COOM00397 Box Number 9d1 Series 14
14-138 'Historic Photos Etc'

Mostly assorted black and white photographs, and some printed matter. Subjects of photographs include members of the Aircraft Advisory Committee; Commonwealth Advisory Aeronautical Research Council, Third Meeting, London, 1953; photograph from LPC's visit to the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range c. 1932 - c. 1955    Quantity 2 cm, 1 folder
Formats Ephemera and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier COOM00411 Box Number 33 Series 14
14-139 'Crash of Crusader Recovery of' and Other Slides

Six photographic slides. Subjects are people, aeroplanes, boats, etc. Possible content date, mid-century.

Housed in a Konica photographic folder labelled '21'.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1950?, No dates - possible content date, mid-century.    Quantity 1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Photographic Transparencies
Inventory Identifier COOM00412 Box Number 33 Series 14
14-140 Slides - Four Miscellaneous

Four photographic slides. Subjects are an anchor, planes and people. Slide featuring portrait of a man and a woman is a duplicate of a photograph in inventory item 4 in Series 16.

Housed in a Konica photographic folder labelled '9'.

Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes
Date range 1950?, No dates - possible content date, mid-century.    Quantity 1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Photographic Transparencies
Inventory Identifier COOM00413 Box Number 33 Series 14

Published by the The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on AustehcWeb, July 2008
With support from The Coombes Family, in particular Jo Johnson and Shirley Macleish, The Aeronautical Research Laboratory, DSTO Australia, J.R. Baxter , A.E. Billington, L.M. Bland, F.G. Blight, R.L. Brooks, R. Bruton, B.G. Catchpole, A. Chilton, D.C. Collis, B.L. Cumming, J.B. Dance, W.B. Duncan, A.B. Emslie, C. Frame, F.A. Fox, R.I. Garrod, D.G. Hurley, S.T.M. Johnstone, A.G. Jones, C.N. King, F.G. Lewis, E.S. Moody, R.V. Pavia, A.O. Payne, D. Secomb, D.G. Stewart, R.A.Wallis, H.L. Wain, J.C. Wisdom and And others who contributed to the L.P. Coombes Appeal
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