| Description | There are estimated to be at least 7,000 photographs in the archive. The subject matters are diverse and include general images of insects, other animals, plants, people, locations, events, insect collection, together with specific images relating to locusts, their biology, ecology, habits and control. The bulk of the photographs and negatives are stored in the Compactor Room (formerly in 3 filing cabinets). Some photographs have been filed in alphabetical order by photographer, others in sequencetial order by a code numbers.
Photographs are on Bay 6 Shelves 1-3; Bay 7 Shelves 1-4; Bay 8 Shelves 1-8.
Negatives are on Bay 6 Shelves 3-4; Bay 7 Shelf 4; Bay 8 Shelf 3.
Additionally there are two specific sets of photographs located elsewhere in the archive. These are:
1. Desert locust swarm structure research photographs by Z. Waloff (see Bulletin of Entomological Research, 1972, pp.1-72) (Map Chest 9 in Map Room).
2. Pedgley's Tihama aerial photographs, Landsat images and associated ground truth data (Green Boxes 321-324 on Compactor Shelving), which comprise:
i) Tihama aerial photographs (Green Box 321);
ii) Tihama Landsat-1 images: 24 Sep 1972-28 Mar 1973 (Green Boxes 322-324);
iii) Tihama Landsat-1 images: May-Jun 1973 (Green Box 324);
iv) Tihama Landsat-1: ground truth data (Green Box 323). |