Historical information
These nine photographs were taken over two decades from the late 1950s to 1979 at the Army Survey Regiment, Fortuna, Bendigo. The two photos taken in 1961 are annotated with named personnel and the date. The other photos are not annotated with dates, locations and names of personnel, although the technicians in the last three photos taken in 1979 are positively identified. The photos were most likely taken in the Ballroom, Ante Room and Attic, Cartographic Squadron’s main production rooms on the top floor of Fortuna Villa. Scribing was the cartographic process of drafting topographic features such as drainage, relief, vegetation, roads and culture on specially coated map reproduction material. The cartographic technician scribed out the map feature such as a creek to a specified line width on the map sheet, using a tool affixed with a metal or sapphire tipped cutter.
Physical description
This is a set of photographs of technicians scribing topographic features at the Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. The photographs were printed on photographic paper and are part of the Army Survey Regiment’s Collection. The photographs were scanned at 300 dpi.
.1) - Photo, black & white, c1950s. unidentified personnel in Cartographic Squadron
.2) - Photo, black & white, c1960s. unidentified personnel in Cartographic Squadron
.3) - Photo, black & white, c1960s. unidentified personnel in Cartographic Squadron Attic
.4) - Photo, black & white, c1960s. Cartographic Squadron Attic
.5) - Photo, black & white, Oct 1961. L to R: PTE P. Carseldine, PTE H.S. Pasley, PTE C.A. Brown, WO2 M.A. McLaren, CPL Jennifer H. Murray. Cartographic Squadron
.6) - Photo, black & white, Oct 1961. CPL Jennifer H. Murray. Cartographic Squadron
.7) - Photo, black & white, 1979. SPR Mick Ellis in Cartographic Squadron
.8) - Photo, black & white, 1979. SPR Mark Casey in Cartographic Squadron
.9) - Photo, black & white, 1979. SPR Sharon (Jones) Treble in Cartographic Squadron
Inscriptions & markings
.1 to .4 - annotated “Scribing”
.5 – annotated “Scribing PTE P. Carseldine, PTE H.S. Pasley, PTE C.A. Brown, WO2 M.A. McLaren, CPL Jennifer H. Murray. Oct 1961”
.6 - annotated “Scribing CPL Jennifer H. Murray. Oct 1961”
.7 to .9 - annotated “Scribing”