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Last Name Laird

Given Name Norman Ramsay

alt. Names N. R. L. ;

Marriage 1: Alison Duff in 1938 c., divorced in 1947 ; 2: Hazel Newman in 1950

Children

Year born 1915 in Sydney, NSW

Year died 1978

Place of death

Father's occupation Thomas Laird (1880 c. -1915 after)

Relatives Elizabeth (1880 c. -1915 after) (mother) ;

Education cinematographer ; Bachelor of Science at the then Victoria College ;

Country of Activity Australia

Worked for Canberra’s Institute of Anatomy ; Royal Australian Air Force ;

Patronage

Collaborators anatomist William Colin Mackenzie (1877-1938) ; photographer and naturalist -> Harry (Henry) James Burrell (1873-1945) ; Photographer-in-Charge at Tasmania’s Department of Lands and Surveys ;

Techniques botanical illustration ; animal, herpetological, and zoological photography ; aerial surveillance photography ;

Sample(s) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4652285 (after download) ;

Archival sources https://www.anbg.gov.au/bot-biog/bot-biog-L.html (just mentioned) ; https://de.findagrave.com/memorial/212971360/norman-ramsay-laird ;

Published sources Richardson, Benjamin J.: Norman Laird (1915-1978). Pioneering Tasmanian Filmmaker, Writer and Naturalist, in: Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 157, 2023; 27-39 ;

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