Professor Griffith Taylor collection [picture] / Thomas Griffith Taylor
- Bib ID:
- 3302657
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Taylor, Thomas Griffith, 1880-1963
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. PIC Glass Plate #PIC/12247/1-199, 205-1357 copy
- Description:
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- between 1900 and 1960
- ca. 2,700 slides, negatives b&w ; 12 x 16.5 cm. or smaller.
- Biography/History:
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Thomas Griffith Taylor, geographer, was born on 1 December 1880 in England, migrating to New South Wales in 1893. He excelled in science and mining engineering, worked as a demonstrator in geology and lectured in commercial geography. Taylor joined the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) as the Weather Service's official representative. He led the successful western geological party and supervised the first significant topographical and glaciological interpretations of extensive areas. The race for the pole between Scott and Amundsen brought prestige to every Antarctic adventurer. In 1913 Taylor was awarded the King's Polar medal and elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Between 1912 and 1920, confident and ambitious, Taylor produced some of his most famous work on Australian meteorological conditions and climatic controls in agriculture and settlement expansion. In 1948 Taylor accepted an invitation from the interim council of the Australian National University to join a team of consultants advising on the establishment of research schools and spent three months touring Australia. Retiring as professor of geography at the University of TorontoToronto in 1951, Taylor decided to settle in Sydney. He was elected president of the new Canadian Association of Geographers and in 1954 he was made a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the sole geographer in that fraternity and in 1959 he became the first president of the Institute of Australian Geographers and was awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the University of Sydney. He was still publishing, on Antarctica and on the contribution of geographical studies to world peace, in the year of his death.
- Notes:
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- Priority photographic orders not available for this material.
- PIC Glass Plate #PIC/12247/1-199, 205-1357 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-149708712
- Arrears category 1
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2033 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1963
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1960
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