Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1946-2010 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
10 boxes, 4 albums
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Jim Gasteen was born in Brisbane in 1922 and worked as a grazier and farmer in Queensland and New South Wales. He was a self-educated land specialist and provided extensive land and biological research assistance to various Queensland Government departments, local councils and other organisations. He was honoured as a Member of the Order of Australia in 1993 for his work as an advocate of balanced land use management. He died in August 2017.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, c1946-2010.
Collection alternatively titled as: Jim Gasteen collection
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Notebooks, photographs, slides, correspondence, reports and other material relating to land use and conservation, and the establishment of National Parks in Queensland.
It includes images of people (Album 4), stone axes (Album 1 and 4), middens (Album 4), Kata Tjuta and Uluru (Albums 1, 3 and 4), Jane Table Hill (Rirrmerr) (Albums 1 and 4) and burial sites (Albums 1, 3 and 4).
Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions. This resource contains images of culturally sensitive sites.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access except for the following, which are Restricted access: Album 1 Items 326, 327; Album 3 Items 2, 5, 6, 7 ; Album 4 Items 23, 26, 27, 48.
Please note: Restricted access: Cultural Access Conditions apply.
Please complete the Cultural Access Application form. The Library's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services and Collections Team will receive the request and review the application.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright applies. Contact the Fryer Library.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Alma MMS ID
Millennium Local System Number
Libraries Australia ID
OCLC Number
Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Gasteen, Jim, 1922- (Subject)
Genre access points
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Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Revised
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Linda Justo, 5-Aug-2021. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.