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66122
  • Title
    Rock fishermen climbing cliffs at The Mattings, Dover Heights, ca. 1953
  • Call number
    PXB 308
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1953
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    66122
  • Physical Description
    Photographs - 20.5 x 25.5 cm.-25.5 x 20.5 cm. - 6 silver gelatin photoprints : 1 sepia toned
  • Scope and Content
    1. Ron going down short rope section of track
    2. Going down track, dangerous section, 200 ft straight down if you slip
    3. Phil coming up section of track, rough weather
    4. Beginning descent, fine weather ...
    5. Beginning descent long rope section about 70 ft to bottom
    6. Coming up hardest section, about 10 ft from peg top of long rope
  • General note

    2 images reproduced in `The rock fishermen' by Ronald McCrossin in Walkabout (Australia) June 1st, 1953, pp. 18-20. Location number: NSL:M Q980/W 1934-1974 Mitchell Library
    Subject of 5 of the photographs possibly Ron McCrossin, the author of the article
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