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Aborigines' Friends' Association dormitory at Point McLeay where children were taught whiteman's way, about 1880
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal life at Point McLeay Aboriginal Mission in the late nineteenth century. Printing block number 201.
Waiting for the mails, Point McLeay
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal people on Point McLeay Aboriginal Mission. Printing block number 141.
Aboriginal hut, Hermannsburg
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal life at Hermannsburg in the early and mid-twentieth century. Printing block number 173.
Aboriginal women, Alice Springs
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal life in Alice Springs in the early and mid-twentieth century. Printing block number 183.
Aboriginal camp children, Ooldea
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal life at Ooldea in the early and mid-twentieth century. Printing block number 186.
Aboriginal mothers and children, taken outside store, Alice Springs
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal life in Alice Springs in the early and mid-twentieth century. Printing block number 189.
Aboriginal people love dogs and apparently cannot have too many, photo taken at Ooldea
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal life at Ooldea in the early and mid-twentieth century. Printing block number 192.
Five Aboriginal women wearing light-colour skirts, facing right
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal people on a mission. Printing block number 200.
Woodwork, Point McLeay, teacher Mr W. T. Lawrie
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal life at Point McLeay Aboriginal Mission in the early and mid-twentieth century. Printing block number 205.
State School, Point McLeay
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal life at Point McLeay Aboriginal Mission in the early and mid-twentieth century. Printing block number 206.
Fife and Drum band, Point McLeay
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal life at Point McLeay Aboriginal Mission in the early and mid-twentieth century. Printing block number 207.
The school band, Point McLeay
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal life at Point McLeay Aboriginal Mission in the early and mid-twentieth century. Printing block number 208.
Group of eleven children brushing teeth - a daily exercise with the toothbrush
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal life at Point McLeay Aboriginal Mission in the early and mid-twentieth century. Printing block number 210.
Constructed houses for Aboriginal families, built by Church Missionary Society
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal life on missions in the mid-twentieth century. Printing block number 53-66.
SA Chief Protector (Mr M. T. McLean) and Aboriginal children at Point Pearce Station
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal life at Point Pearce Station in the early and mid-twentieth century. Printing block number 191.
Aboriginal teachers reading the Gospel of St Mark in Pitjantjatjara, Ernabella
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal people from Ernabella community in the mid-twentieth century. Printing block number 57-66.
Printing blocks for publications
This series comprises 69 printing blocks created for the photographic images in the publications published by the Aborigines' Friends' Association, such as annual reports, annual reviews, quarterly reports, and other publications and articles. Each block contains a metal print plate with a wooden base, depicting subjects including missionaries, Australian Aboriginal people on missions or pastoral stations, and Australian Aboriginal life in the early and mid-twentieth century. Please see the item records SRG 139/57/1-69 for further information on each printing block.
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The domitory [sic] children at Mapoon Mission, Queensland
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal people at Mapoon Mission, Queensland, in the early and mid-twentieth century. Printing block number 196.
Aborigines Advancement League : SUMMARY RECORD
Papers of the A.A.L. comprising minutes, correspondence, reports, publications, papers relating to Wiltja Hostel (Millswood), problems with alcohol, relations with police, Point Pearce School, benefactors' estates, brief history of the League (1969), papers about specific cases relating to Northern Territory Aboriginal workmen and families on cattle stations, and on Eyre Peninsula (Smoky Bay district).
Miss Beulah Lowe is engaged full-time in translation work for the eastern Arnhem Land Aboriginal people
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting the missionary's life on the mission in eastern Arnhem Land in the mid-twentieth century. Printing block number 74-66.
A young Aboriginal child
A printing block, depicting a young Aboriginal child. 'Enticott' written on the block.
Traditional weaving by Aboriginal women
Traditional basket weaving by Aboriginal women exhibition at Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute. Photographs taken by the Aboriginal Unit of the State Library of S.A.
Glass lantern slides featuring Aboriginal people and missions
Comprising hand-coloured lantern slides of the Kramer Family Missionary work among Aboriginal people in the centre and northern Australia (also includes a small number of slides from Papua New Guinea), plus the Kramer Family abroad. Lantern slides include Hermannsburg Mission garden, the first church built at Alice Springs, and their first home 'Ebenezer'. Most images are of Arrernte (Aranda) people from Alice Springs and central Australia including Hermannsburg (Ntaria) on the Finke River. There are some images from Mapoon (also known as Marpuna or the Batavia River Mission), Queensland and some images from Groote Eylandt, north eastern Australia, encompassing Angurugu, Alyangula and Umbakumba. Anindilyakwa / Enindhilyagwa / Warnindilyakwa people and including Yolgnu people. Many of the lantern slides have been hand-coloured. The slides were likely to have been used for lectures and/or presentations for Mission circuits and the public. There are a small number of slides taken whilst on family holidays, likely to be in locations overseas, for example Switzerland and Europe. For more details and information see CONTENTS.
Traditional weaving by Aboriginal women
Traditional weaving by Aboriginal women exhibition at Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute. Photographs taken by the Aboriginal Unit of the State Library of S.A.
A group of eight girls who conduct at Darwin their own laundry on a profit-sharing basis
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal life on mission. Printing block number 152.
Women and children digging yelka bulbs for food purposes
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal life at Cockatoo Creek, Central Australia in the early and mid-twentieth century. Printing block number 171.
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Aranda[Arrernte] children, a snapshot at Hermannsburg
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal life at Hermannsburg in the early and mid-twentieth century. Printing block number 174.
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Aranda[Arrernte] mothers and children at Hermannsberg
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal life at Hermannsburg in the early and mid-twentieth century. Printing block number 176.
Dairying. Milkers, Hermannsburg Mission Station
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal life on Hermannsburg Mission Station in the early and mid-twentieth century. Printing block number 177.
Three women doing fancy needlework, Hermannsburg
A printing block and a printed image from the block, depicting Australian Aboriginal life at Hermannsburg in the early and mid-twentieth century. Printing block number 179.