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The data collection relates to research on the history and heritage of the Great Barrier Reef. It comprises material sourced from public and private collections within Australia and overseas. The collection that has been amassed comprises:
hardcopy material including original, photocopied and photographic prints of books, travel brochures, postcards, posters, advertisements.
Hardcopy and digital photographic copies of images (maps, photographs, brochures, posters) produced by collecting institutions for which reproduction and publication costs have been paid.
A large number of digital reference files (images, pdfs) for the purpose of analysis. These are images of archival texts (magazine, newspaper articles, diaries, webpages, book pages), artistic works, and all the above mentioned source types. These are personal images made on the understanding that they are for the researcher's purposes only and cannot be reproduced without prior permission of the holding institution.
Notes
1,342 (tourism) +5680 (Aboriginal labour) = approx. 7022 JPEG files (material on CDs not counted) 42 (tourism) + 534 (Aboriginal labour)= 576 TIFF files (material on CDs not counted)
148 BMP Files
72 (tourism) + 670 (Aboriginal labour) = 742 PDF files
Approximately 20 Digital copies of motion film
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Available: 22 07 2013 to 22 07 2018
Data time period: 1800 to 31 12 2012
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