Hugh Geves Pechey photographs

Collection

Accession number
33547
Date
[between 1942-1962?]
Author / Creator
Pechey, Hugh Geves, 1925-2021, photographer
Abstract
Large collection of slides and photographs with corresponding negatives, mostly taken during the professional career of Hugh Geves Pechey, a civil engineer with the Commonwealth Department of Works. There are some photographs of his holidays in Queensland in the mid-1940's, but most of the photographs relate to his work and span the time that Hugh worked in Papua New Guinea (1949-1953) and around Queensland (1953-1962). Pechey worked on aerodromes while in Papua New Guinea and in Townsville, Rockhampton, Proserpine, Normanton, Winton, Longreach, Cairns, Mackay and Coen.
Scope and content

The first five albums contain slides taken by Hugh Pechey when he was stationed at Coen Aerodrome, and are of his work and social life around North Queensland between 1963 and 1965.

System of arrangement
Arranged into 7 series.
Description
8 photograph albums and 1 box of negatives (photographs)
Administrative / Biographical history

Hugh Geves Pechey was born in Sydney in 1925 but grew up in the suburb of Manly in Brisbane. He boarded for two years at Toowoomba Anglican School and for four at Anglican Church Grammar School (Churchie) before winning a scholarship to UQ in 1942. He had intended to study law but it was cancelled as a course due to War Emergency Regulations, so instead studied engineering. He started work as a civil engineer with the Commonwealth Department of Works in 1946 and spent 43 years with them. Pechey predominantly worked on the design and construction of road and airfield pavements and in the first 20 years of his career inspected every government aerodrome in Queensland and some in Papua New Guinea (where he worked between 1949 and 1953). He retired in 1990.

Copyright status

Multiple copyright statuses.

Conditions of use
Licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Preferred citation
33547, Hugh Geves Pechey photographs, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
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