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The Mary Gillham Archive Project begins!

1 February 2016

Mary Gillham left an archive comprising written notes, journals, diaries, slides, photographs, illustrations and books. The cope and variety of material in the archive is vast and is what the Mary Gillham Archive Project set out to tame over the following two years.

A box of folders, photographs and negatives
Mary's teaching collection of shells which she had collected from around the world
Some of Mary's slide boxes
Some of Mary's slide boxes
Mary's travel journals and school books
Memories of international travels
The files which contain the bulk of Mary's wildlife notes
Travel memories, starting in the bottom left with the Balearics in 1954 through to Madeira in 2001
Mary's teaching collection of shells collected from around the world
An audio recording of a lecture Mary delivered in 1973
An early draft of Mary's book on Tasmania: