Series 5 - Photographs


Date Range1930 - 1980s
Quantity
ProvenanceLucy Crosbie Morrison
Description

Aborigines, Queensland, Tasmania, New South Wales, South Australia, Melbourne Botanic Gardens, Northern Territory, abroad, Victoria. Many photographs taken in national parks, especially in Victoria. Also included are some photographs of Aborigines taken on the Mackay expedition to Central Australia, and some notable photographs of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens.


Inventory Listing

MORR00142 Wonnangatta Station; Coronation dash

Six black and white prints of Wonnangatta Station and Howqua River. Accompanying envelope inscribed ' C.E. Bryant photos used December 1950'. Photographs titled: 'Along the Howqua River...', 'The body of one of the men was found in the Conglomerate creek valley at the 'back' of the Station', 'The tiny cemetery at Wonnangatta', 'The Wonnangatta River above the Station', 'Wonnangatta Station', 'The approaches to Mt Howitt from the Howqua valley'; photograph and newspaper cutting from The Argus: 'Coronation Pictures: In Ten Days: Planes' Dash' - related to air transport of Coronation photographs from Britain.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range c. 1950    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-1 Series 5
MORR00143 Aborigines

Black and white prints, many unidentified. Subjects include: groups and individuals; corroborees; fabrication and use of tools and weapons; rock painting. Locations include: Central Australia (Mackay Expedition, 1930); Mt Tombah, New South Wales; Northern Territory; Kulkyne; Eaglemont; Mootwingee, east of Broken Hill; Ayers Rock; Delamere; Wessel Island; North Wessel Island.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1930 - 1950s    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-2 Series 5
MORR00144 Queensland

Black and white prints, mostly unidentified, many associated with Wild Life. Locations include: national park at Tambourine Mountain; Townsville; Lamington National Park, Beechmont; Waree National Park, Springbrook. Subjects include: bush scenes, mountain ranges, water courses.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1950s, no date    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-3 Series 5
MORR00145 Tasmania

Black and white prints, some unidentified, many associated with Wild Life. Locations include: Lake St Clair, Cradle Mountain and other location in the Tasmanian central highlands; Chauncy Vale; district surrounding Queenstown; Port Arthur; reprint: circular from Tasmanian Field Naturalists' Club, 8 March 1954, about Easter Camp to Safety Cove, near Port Arthur, at which Crosbie Morrison was to be a guest.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1940s - 1950s, Mid-1940s - mid-1950s    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-4 Series 5
MORR00146 New South Wales

Black and white prints, most identified. Locations include: Mt Warning, near Murwillumbah; Murray and Darling Rivers; Mount Kosciusko.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1950s    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-5 Series 5
MORR00147 South Australia

Black and white prints: Browns Lake, Mt Gambier (plus additional copy clipped from a magazine); mouth of Murray, Goolwa; Murray River, Renmark; view on River Torrens from Elder Park, Adelaide; Victoria Square, Adelaide; First Waterfall, Morialta Reserve; two reprints: newspaper cutting 'Travelling Back into Time' by Andrew McKay, clipped from The Herald; travel brochure on Kangaroo Island holidays, December 1964.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1940s - 1964, 1964 (mostly undated from 1940s - 1950s)    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-6 Series 5
MORR00148 Botanic Gardens

Black and white prints collected in preparation for Crosbie Morrison's book Melbourne's Garden. Most unidentified, but include comments on their merit, and specifications for their reproduction. Includes: various views of the gardens; flora of note; ariel views of the gardens; rotunda and other buildings; birds; members of the public; gardeners at work; staff at work at the National Herbarium.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1932 - 1940s, 1932 (mostly undated from 1940s)    Quantity 2.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-7 Series 5
MORR00149 Botanic Gardens

Black and white prints collected in preparation for Crosbie Morrison's book Melbourne's Garden. Most unidentified, but include comments on their merit, and specifications for their reproduction. Includes: various views of the gardens; flora of note; ariel views of the gardens; rotunda and other buildings; birds; members of the public; exterior and interior of the National Herbarium; staff at work at the National Herbarium. File also includes a letter to Crosbie Morrison from Russell Grimwade regarding photographs for the book.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1940s, no date [early to mid-1940s]    Quantity 2.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-8 Series 5
MORR00150 Northern Territory

Black and white prints, some identified as being of Arnhem Land. Includes: aerial photographs; rock formations; jungle views, including huts and machinery apparently abandoned after the second world war; interior of a tropical dwelling.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1944    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-9 Series 5
MORR00151 Abroad

Black and white prints, all identified, mostly scenic views intended for publication in Wild Life. Includes: mountains in Banff, Alberta, Canada; Nevada Falls, Yosemite Park, California; jungle in New Britain, New Guinea; Lake Chugenji, Nikko, Japan; Mount Kenya; Kenya National Park; Aberdaire National Park, Kenya; Bougainville, New Guinea; Christmas Island; Cocos-Keeling Islands; islands off the Malayan coast. File also includes a reprint - Severn Wildfowl Trust: Annual Report 1948.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1940s - 1950s, Mid-1940s - early 1950s    Quantity 1.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-10 Series 5
MORR00152 Victoria

Black and white prints, Victorian scenery. Locations and subjects include: bush huts on the Mt Howitt Track, in the Baw Baw mountains, in the Dandenong Ranges; wool wash building near Portland; Emerald; Glenelg River; Mt Gambier; Tarpaulin Bend, Murray River; lakes near Creswick; Marysville; Tarra Valley National Park; Albert River, Hiawatha, Gippsland; Fossil Beach; Kiewa River near Wodonga; Stawell Park, Creswick; near Kilmore; Tower Hill, Koroit; near Wallan; near Lake Hattah, Kulkyne National Forest; Yarra River at Melbourne; Phillip Island; valley of the Howqua River, near Mansfield; Mallacoota; Borough Huts, Grampians; Eurobin Falls, Mt Buffalo National Park; from Reid's Lookout, Mt Buffalo National Park; Razorback Spur from the Gable End; Mildura District; Cumberland Valley; the Heads from Arthur's Seat; Goulburn River, Seymour; Thirkell's Creek; view from Echo Point, Mt Buffalo National Park; view from 'The Monolith', Mt Buffalo National Park; Mt Bogong; Mitta Mitta Valley; Lake Little Hattah; near Lake Konardin; Fossil Beach, Mornington; Port Campbell.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1942 - 1953, most undated    Quantity 3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-11 Series 5
MORR00153 Miscellaneous

Black and white photographs. Locations and subjects included: PCM with Lady Dorothy McMillan; portrait photographs of PCM; PCM on a visit to Broken Hill; an unidentified spider; photo of the Australian Natural History Medallion; PCM handling a giant Gippsland worm; PXM giving a wild life talk in front of a television camera; PCM at Birra Burra; PCM and an unnamed man at the 10th birthday broadcast of 'Wild Life'; PCM at his office desk; PCM with a koala; PCM with unidentified group of people, possibly taken on the Mackay Expedition; aboriginal children at Hermannsburg; PCM and LCM on a picnic with Edwin Hills and Doris Hills; several photographs of PCM photographing wild life in the field; photograph of three men in a cave, possibly includes PCM, related to PCM's work with Army Education, 1944; PCM and LCM and an unidentified man in New Zealand; PCM and LCM at Palm Valley in Central Australia; PCM dictating to his secretary, Miss E. Stebbins; PCM examining the bark of a tree.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1930s - 1950s    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-12 Series 5
MORR00154 Photographs collected for use in Graham Pizzey's biography of PCM

Miscellaneous black and white photographs and captions. All are prints unless otherwise stated. Includes: negative and two prints of family photograph, showing PCM, LCM, James Morrison and Tom Morrison; PCM aged four or five, with caption; negative, three prints and caption of the screening of PCM's film 'Beyond the Alice' at McCoy Hall at the National Museum, 1953; PCM handling a giant Gippsland worm; group of men including PCM, being weighed before boarding aeroplanes on the MacKay expedition to Central Australia in 1930; PCM on the Mackay Expedition, covered in flies; PCM surrounded by a swarm of Pheidole megacephala (Madeira ants); Graham Pizzey with camera; cutting from a magazine of group of boobook owls, photographed by Ronald K. Monro and published in Wild Life in 1938; PCM receiving the Natural History Medallion from Russell Grimwade, 1947; group photograph including PCM and LCM taken on RAOU expedition to Central Australia in 1952; publicity photograph of PCM looking at strips of film; PCM and LCM with Irving Benson at the official opening of the Olympic Arts Festival, 1956; PCM looking at reproduction of the Magna Carta, with Frank Selleck (Lord Mayor of Melbourne), Irving Benson (Chair of the Board of Trustees, Melbourne Public Library) and Colin McCallum (Chief Librarian); print and negative of portrait photograph of PCM aged about five; photograph by PCM of female Australian magpie, used for the design of his personal bookplate; photograph of young white faced herons by Ronald K. Munro, published in Wild Life in December 1942; whiskered tern photographed by PCM at Fisherman's Bend in Melbourne; PCM on a weekend excursion to Mt William reporting for the Argus, with (from left) Ernie Godfrey, A.S. Kenyon, and W.A. Waters; sooty terns at their breeding station on Michaelmas Cay off Cairns (this photograph was published along with PCM's report of the Great Barrier Reef expedition in the Times in May 1928 - see 10-9); portrait photograph of PCM aged about 40; portrait photograph of PCM aged 25; photocopy of PCM photography the Tasman Glacier near Mount Cook in New Zealand; Morrison filming at Ayers Rock in 1952. File also includes letter from Graham Pizzey to Nick Walker, manager of Publications at the Museum of Victoria, also copies of Graham Pizzey's and James (Jim) Morrison's signature, used in the biography.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range c. 1905 - 1980s    Quantity 1.6 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-13 Series 5
MORR00155 Photographs collected for Graham Pizzey's biography of PCM, but not used

Miscellaneous black and white prints, including: PCM using a device to suck ants out of the ground; PCM preparing to photograph a worm snake; PCM and a group of aborigines, taken on the Mackay Expedition in 1930; PCM demonstrating the sound of a moving earthworm.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1930 - 1950s    Quantity 0.8 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-14 Series 5
MORR00156 Various

Black and white prints. Includes: Wilsons Promontory; Broken Hill; opening of memorial to Major Mitchell at Portland, Vic; PCM, Captain Bennett (navigator) and Howard Love (wireless operator), Mackay Expedition; PCM and Lady Dorothy McMillan; PCM and LCM at Portland; Mrs R.T.M. Pescott, LCM, Mr Julian Huxley, Mrs Alf Butcher, Mrs C.E. Bryant; unidentified photographs.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1930 - 1958    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-15 Series 5
MORR00157 Photographs by Ronals K. Monro

THIS ITEM IS MISSING. Ann McCarthy 7 August 2008.

Large black and white prints prepared for display, some captioned. Includes: baby cockatoos; black swans.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1930s - 1940s, No date
Inventory Identifier 5-16 Series 5

Published by the The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on AustehcWeb, August 2008
With support from R.E. Ross Trust, Lucy Crosbie Morrison and The University of Melbourne
Listed by Stuart Brash, Anne-Marie Condé, Libby Robin, Ann McCarthy, Michael Jones, Gavan McCarthy and Tim Sherratt.
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