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A.J. Campbell Collection
Image: Returning from N. E. Id. with 'Spoils' of the Day."
Source: Museum Victoria
This collection consists of 2,772 images taken by Archibald James Campbell. These are made up of a combination of black and white prints and glass negatives. Many of the images of birds and nests were used by Campbell in his book Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, including the Geographical Distribution of the Species and Popular Observations Thereon, published in 1900. There is also a significant number of images taken by Campbell on his various field trips around Australia with groups such as the Ornithologists Union, Victorian Field Naturalists, The Working Men's College Photographic Club and his family.
The collection came into Museum Victoria's care on 22 December 1915 and forms part of a much larger holding which includes 1,884 specimens and an archive of letters, manuscripts, notes and sketches. In the early 1990s this collection was separated into two. The archival material most generally related to Campbell's ornithological and the specimens remained in the Ornithology Department and the other images and glass negatives were retrieved from the strong room under the stair in McCoy Hall and registered into the History and Technology Collection. Later in 2006 more albums were discovered in the Museum Library and transfered into the History and Technology collection.
The History and Technology collection breaks down as follows:
518 - Album photographs
1486 - Glass negatives
756 - Photographs
1 - Printers Block
In 1954 A.J's son AG Campbell died and left a large amount of material to the Museum. This material is also held by Museum Victoria - see Ornithology Department.
Items per page: 10 50 (showing 151 - 200) 2033 items
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Glass Negative - Large Egg in Small Nest, by A.J. Campbell, Australia, circa 1900
Large egg in small nest possibly black faced cuckoo-shrike or white winged triller.
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Glass Negative - by A.J. Campbell, Dunk Island, Queensland, circa 1900
Boat at jetty on river, palm, rainforest.
From: Dunk Island, Australia Images: 1 -
Photograph - by A.J. Campbell, Phillip Island, Victoria, 1901
Three men and a woman searching for eggs.
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Glass Negative - Naked Man Climbing Gum Tree, by A.J. Campbell, Australia, circa 1900
Naked man climbing a river red gum to reach a nest in the hollow.
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Glass Negative - by A.J. Campbell, Australia, circa 1900
Burnt forest, part cleared, stumps in foreground.
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Glass Negative - 'Hanging Nest & Bee Honeycomb', by A.J. Campbell, Australia, circa 1900
Hanging nest and bee honeycomb.
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Glass Negative - by A.J. Campbell, Australia, 1915
Magpie nest with tawny frogmouth nest and eggs on top.
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Glass Negative - by A.J. Campbell, Australia, circa 1900
Tall eucalyptus forest and cycads ground cover.
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Photograph - by A.J. Campbell, Warburton District, Victoria, circa 1895
The upper reaches of the Yarra River. (This image also appears as PD000938).
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Photograph - by A.J. Campbell, Warburton District, Victoria, circa 1895
The upper reaches of the Yarra River. (This image also appears as MM 025914).
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Photograph - by A.J. Campbell, Warburton District, Victoria, circa 1895
The upper reaches of the Yarra River. (This image is very similar to PD000941).
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Glass Negative - by A.J. Campbell, Upper Yarra, Victoria, circa 1900
A group of men and a young boy picking raspberries.
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Photograph - by A.J. Campbell, Upper Yarra, Victoria, circa 1895
The upper reaches of the Yarra River seen through eucalypts and tree ferns.
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Glass Negative - by A.J. Campbell, Australia, circa 1900
Line drawing from book: spiders and spider webs.
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Glass Negative - Man in Limestone Cave, by A.J. Campbell, Australia, circa 1900
Man in limestone entrance.
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Glass Negative - Noddy Colony, by A.J. Campbell, Abrolhos Island, Western Australia, circa ...
Man in noddy colony, perhaps Abrolhos Island.
From: Pelsaert Island, Australia Images: 1 -
Photograph - by A.J. Campbell, Lerdederg River, Victoria, circa 1900
Looking down on the Lerderdeg River as it flows from the Lerderderg Gorge.
From: Lerderderg River, Australia Images: 1 -
Glass Negative - by A.J. Campbell, Australia, circa 1900
Men admiring auracana trees -(not Werribee Gorge).
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Photograph - Nest of the White-Browed Scrub Wren, by A.J. Campbell, Victoria, circa 1895
A nest which appears to be constructed from reeds.
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Glass Negative - Two Men on a Mallee Fowl Mound, by A.J. Campbell, Victoria, circa 1895
Image taken by A.J. Campbell in preparation for his definitive work, 'Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds including the Geographical Distribution of the Species and Popular Observations ...
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Glass Negative - Exposed Eggs in Mallee Fowl Mound, by A.J. Campbell, Mallee, Victoria, ci ...
Image taken by A.J. Campbell in preparation for his definitive work, 'Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds including the Geographical Distribution of the Species and Popular Observations ...
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Photograph - by A.J. Campbell, Echuca District, Victoria, circa 1900
A man with a horse drinking from a water hole.
From: Echuca, Australia Images: 1 -
Glass Negative - Grass Trees, by A.J. Campbell, The Grampians, Victoria, 1910
Half a plate of flowering grasstrees in burnt woodland Grampians.
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Glass Negative - by A.J. Campbell, Kangaroo Island, South Australia, 1905
Farmhouse, forest at rear.
From: Kangaroo Island, Australia Images: 1 -
Photograph - by A.J. Campbell, Victoria, circa 1890
An almost identical image of the woman seen in MM 69985. She wears a white blouse beneath a dark jacket. The jacket is pinned at the throat with a narrow broach. The woman appears to ...
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Glass Negative - 'An Eagles Look-out', by A.J. Campbell, Werribee, Victoria, pre 1900
Image taken by A.J. Campbell in preparation for his definitive work, 'Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds including the Geographical Distribution of the Species and Popular Observations ...
From: Werribee, Australia Images: 1 -
Glass Negative - Collecting Party in Bush, by A.J. Campbell, Werribee, Victoria, circa 190 ...
Egg collecting party make camp in the bush of Werribee around 1900.
From: Werribee, Australia Images: 1 -
Photograph - by A.J. Campbell, Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, circa 1890
A man standing at the top of a small water fall.
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Glass Negative - by A.J. Campbell, Phillip Island, Victoria, 1902
Step slope into sea, man amongst trees. (could be Moonah).
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Glass Negative - Boy sitting on Megapode nest, by A.J. Campbell, Queensland, circa 1900
Boy sitting on Megapode nest (scrub-fowl or brush-turkey).
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Glass Negative - Man Riding a Punt, by A.J. Campbell, Australia, circa 1900
European man standing in punt, wagon and camp on bank.
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Photograph - by A.J. Campbell, Victoria, circa 1900
Portrait of a bearded man. He wears a tweed jacket with the top button done up. (An enlargement of MM 69961).
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Photograph - by A.J. Campbell, Upper Yarra, Victoria, Dec 1895
A group of three: a woman standing, a young man seated and an indistinct figure leaning against a post. They are in front of a small wooden house with vines trained along the verandah p ...
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Glass Negative - by A.J. Campbell, The Nobbies, Phillip Island, Victoria, 1902
The Nobbies, Phillip Island.
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Glass Negative - Swagman Resting under the Shade of a Tree, by A.J. Campbell, Australia, c ...
Swagman at rest, posed picture.
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Glass Negative - PS Trafalgar with Wool Barge in Tow on Murray River, by A.J. Campbell, Ne ...
A PADDLE STEANMER, THE S.S. "TRAFALGAR" ON THE MURRAY RIVER.
From: Murray River, Australia Images: 1 -
Photograph - by A.J. Campbell, Victoria, circa 1890
A man, possibly fishing, standing by a creek flowing through a gorge.
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Photograph - by A.J. Campbell, Jackson's Creek, Victoria, circa 1905
Looking across a creek to a bush-covered hill.
From: Jacksons Creek, Australia Images: 1
