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DSIR album
- Date
- [Between 1926 and 1954]
- Reference
- PA1-o-135
- Description
Album of photographs relating to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Reasearch presented to Dr Ernest Marsden in 1954. Includes detailed photographs of various laboratory procedures and apparatus, including meat dehydration plant in the Meat Research Laboratory; mass spectrometer; electron microscope; Borthwick Beta-Ray apparatus; soil consolidation machines; geothermal bores; knock resistance tests, with a CFR engine; separating constituents of butter fat, the Fats Research Balance Room; members of the Soil Survey Conference in Napier, 1950, and members of the Geological Survey Conference in 1952; Rongotai Aerodrome under construction; the Magnetic Observatory building in Christchurch; the Dominion Observatory, and the Seismological Observatory; Crop Research Division buildings; Hop Research Station; members attending the Grasslands Conference in 1933; and members attending the Seventh Pacific Science Congress in 1949.
Inscriptions: Album page - Presented to Dr. E. Marsden with the good wishes of the senior staff of the D.S.I.R. and in appreciation of the help & encouragement he has given them throughout the years of his association with the Department, 1926-1954 (With 30 signatures)
Dr Ernest Marsden was Director of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research from 1926-1947
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Brown album, 26.5 x 32 cm
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Marsden, Lady Joyce : Assorted photographs and negatives from the papers of Sir Ernest Marsden
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Group portraits, Brown album, 26.5 x 32 cm
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UnknownDrying kilns and tobbacco plants, DSIR Crop Research Division
Date: 1954
From: Marsden, Lady Joyce : Assorted photographs and negatives from the papers of Sir Ernest Marsden
Reference: PA1-o-135-44
Description: View of five drying kilns and a tobacco crop at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research's Crop Research Division. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1954. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Tobacco research. Drying kilns. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Siver gelatin print, 24 x 18.8 cm, mounted on album page
Hop plantation, DSIR Crop Research Division
Date: 1954
From: Marsden, Lady Joyce : Assorted photographs and negatives from the papers of Sir Ernest Marsden
Reference: PA1-o-135-43
Description: Hop plantation at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research's Crop Research Division. The plants are being used to trial stringing methods. Photographed by an unkown photographer in 1954. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Tobacco research. Drying kilns. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Siver gelatin print, 24 x 18.8 cm, mounted on album page