Simpson, E S, fl. 1897-1922 (mineralogist)
Dates
- Existence: fl. 1897 - 1922
Biography
E.S. Simpson worked for the Geological Survey of Western Australia as a chemist/mineralogist 1897-1922. Simpson took photographs in the course of this work.
Sources:
Typescript copy of 'Index to Photographers'.
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Baked slate [?] Walsh's Quarry, Kalgoorlie District, 1901
152 x 107 mm. A view showing a sheer rockface containing a vertical stratum of baked slate (?sheared porphyrite) in a quarry in the Kalgoorlie District. Photograher E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 60.
Camillerips Gold Mine, on gold mining lease 2PP near Donnybrook, 1904-01-28
151 x 107 mm. A view looking at the mine workings, situated among partially cleared and burnt woodland. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 168.
Diatomite deposit, Lake Gnangarra, Perth area, 1902-10-21
152 x 107 mm. A view looking over the marshy, reed grown lake bed, with two figures standing beside an excavated trench in the foreground. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 71.
Diatomite deposit, north end of Little Badgerup Lake, Perth area, 1903-03-12
120 x 92 mm. A view showing cracked mud and reeds on the lake bed of Little Badgerup Lake. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 86.
Diatomite deposit, south end of Little Badgerup Lake, Perth area, 1903-03-12
117 x 92 mm. A similar view to the previous plate, taken from the south side of the lake. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 87.
Gneissix granite slope, near Donnybrook, 1904-01-30
151 x 108 mm. A view showing a wooded slope near Donnybrook showing the characteristic 'blackboy' trees. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 172.
Limestone Hills, Willow Gully, Northampton area, 1903-05-15
152 x 107 mm. A view looking across level scrubland towards the sharply pointed Razorback Mount. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 22.
Quartz outcrop on hill northeast of Mount Misery, 1903-06-25
152 x 108 mm. A view showing quartz outcrops on a granitic hillside in Yandanooka District. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 11.
Razorback Mount, Oakabella, Northampton area, 1903-05-15
152 x 107 mm. A view looking across level scrubland towards the sharply pointed Razorback Mount. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 22.
Sandstone Quarry on gold mining lease 66, 1904-01-28
151 x 107 mm. A view showing a stone quarry in a woodland clearing with wooden winching equipment and quarried sandstone blocks in the foreground. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 166.
View from Razorback Mount, Oakabella looking 285, 1903-05-15
152 x 107 mm. A view looking past the sharp summit of Razorback Mount (on which a man stands) towards level wooded land in the distance. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 24.
View from slopes of White Cliffs, four miles south of Mingenew, 1903-06-22
A view looking along the slopes of the White cliffs towards sandplain and scrubland in the distance. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 7.
View from top of White Cliffs, four miles south of Mingenew, 1903-06-22
152 x 108 mm. A view looking along the White Cliffs towards the sandplain and the distant Irwin-Lockier River Valley. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 8.
View from top of White Cliffs, four miles south of Mingenew, 1903-06-22
152 x 107 mm. A view looking across the scrubland sandplain towards the low White Cliffs. Photograph by E.S. Simpson.
View of fossil Otozamites Feistmanteli, 1900
107 x 136 mm. A studio photograph showing the fossil, found three miles south of Mingenew. Photograph by E.S. Simpson and R.H. Irwin. Negative No. 321.
View of Ginginup Hill, Gin Gin, 1903-12-16
151 x 107 mm. A view of Ginginup Hill showing the base and cap of sandstone and grit with chalk halfway up the hill. Photogrpah by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 165.
View on the Chapman River, Geraldton Area, 1903-05-17
152 x 107 mm. A view looking across the Chapman River towards the further wooded bank. The photograph, taken near the mouth of the Chapman River, shows the riverbed in the foreground and a bank of foraminiferal limestone on the far side. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 60.
Wild flowers in (?) Nokenana Valley, Northampton area, 1902-08
152 x 108 mm. A similar view to plate 31. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. B.
Wild flowers in (?) Nokenana Valley, Northampton area, 1902-08
152 x 108 mm. A view showing a hillside covered in (?) everlasting daisies, probably taken at the same time as plate 38. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. A.
Wild flowers (?) Nokenana Valley, Northampton area, 1902-08-21
152 x 107 mm. A view showing (?) everlasting daisies growing on hillside, with Kings Mount, Sugarloaf Peak and Razorback Mount in the far distance. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 26.