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Alice Manfield was known in the Mount Buffalo area as 'Guide Alice'. She was a keen photographer. Her father, James, pioneered the tourist industry on the Buffalo Plateau and built a family hostel that pre-dated the government-built Mount Buffalo Chalet. Alice divided her time between conducting alpine tours, writing on local flora and fauna, and serving behind the bar at her mother's Temperance Hotel. In 1924 Alice published a small book about the lyrebirds of the Mount Buffalo region, a copy of which is held in the Victorian State Library's collection.