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February 25, 1948. 
Mr. Charles P. Mountford, 
25 First Avenue, 
St. PeterS;, South Australia. 
Dear Mr. Mountford: 
Replying to your letter of January 30th may I say that I was well aware of 
the contents of Dr. Grosvenor’s letter of May 17, 1945 in which he advised you that 
your proposal of March 5, 1945 has been approved. In this letter, however, there 
was no specific mention of photographs. Specifically covering this matter is his 
letter of May 24, 1946 from which I quoted the following paragraph: 
“It should perhaps be restated that all still pictures shall become 
the property of The Society, whereas the motion picture films made by 
you will belong to the Australian Government. However, I should like to 
stipulate that The Society be permitted to make duplicates of the motion 
pictures for its film library.” 
Your reply of June 27, 1946 stated “As set out in my proposal all still 
photographs, -- both color and black and white - - will be the property of the NGS.” 
These two letters thus became part of the agreement supplementing the other terms 
outlined in your general proposal dated March 5, 1945. 
Considering the problems posed by your letter of December 31, 1947 to Dr. 
Wetmore and yours to me of January 31, 1948 may I suggest the following arrange¬ 
ment: All black and white negatives may be developed and printed in Australia; 
you and Mr. Walker may make tentative selection sending a full set of prints to us 
with those selected by you so indicated; when we confirm selection the negatives 
you select may be retained and the balance sent to us. All color stills exposed by 
Mr. Walker must be sent here for processing but prints will be supplied as requested. 
We are anxious to cooperate fully with you and the Australian authorities 
but we must insist that we have first choice of all the photographs obtained on the 
expedition for first publication in the National Geographic Magazine. Four years 
after that s as the agreement states, any of the photographs are available to you for 
your own books or other publications with acknowledgment to the National 
Geographic Society. 
It is understood that the selection of negatives which you will retain will 
be those pictures which are research material and may not be suitable for general 
illustration. A full set of prints will be supplied to you. 
Two new questions have been indicated in your personal letters of January 
30, 1948 to Dr. Wetmore. One is the matter of “News Photographs” which you wish 
for your own Department. By this I assume you mean pictures which may be used 
in Australian newspapers with press releases about the Expedition. This is a point 
which has not been mentioned until now but is one which may be arranged readily 
with Mr. Walker who will be instructed to cooperate. Such news photographs as 
you and Mr. Walker may consider suitable for Australia may be issued from your 
Department. The movie film which Mr. Walker may make is intended only to 
supplement your own, and to insure complete coverage. Copies will be available to 
you for your lectures. 
Please accept my assurances that we shall cooperate fully to make the 
lectures and the published results of this Expedition the best possible to the credit 
of yourself, the Australian Government, and the National Geographic Society. 
Yours truly, 
