Cover image for Peter Volkert Payens (Photographer)
Agency:
Peter Volkert Payens (Photographer)
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Start Date:
01 Jan 1914
End Date:
31 Dec 1994
Description:
Peter Payens was employed by the firm Brown and Dureau Pty Ltd on aerial survey work under contract to the Tasmanian Government in the late 1940s. This was pioneering work that contributed greatly to our knowledge of Tasmanian geography. Several of Peter Payens' aerial oblique photos have been used in at least two scientific publications.;;During 1979 Peter gave many of his negatives to Jack Thwaites. In a letter dated 24/8/1979 he notes " will take the opportunity to gather aerial photographs and negatives together to bring them back to Tasmania where they rightly belong". In this same letter Peter writes about his wife, Dora Kahan who had been in charge of the Lady Gowire Child Care Centre and was the first woman to land on Lake Pedder.
Information Sources:
Letter to State Archivist dated 20/2/1995 from K D Nichols;;NS3278/1/11 - Correspondence files of Jack Thwaites.
Series Created By Agency:
NS3277 Aerial Negatives by Peter Payens01 Jan 194031 Dec 1949

NS1714 Aerial Oblique Photographs and Negatives of Tasmania01 Jan 194531 Dec 1950