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At the copper mine
Members of the 87th Squadron with a truck in a open area. A note on the back identifies it as 'at copper mine'. One of a number of photographs of Darwin (PRG 1435/4/166 - PRG 1435/4/174).
Group of young men, possibly Customs staff
Group of young men, possibly Customs staff, near a memorial erected in 1884 to H.W.H. Stevens, R.C.S. Buckland, J.R. Hineston; some carry tennis racquets and two dogs, a terrier and a dalmatian, are in the foreground. According to researcher Dr. Matthew Stephen, this image depicts a 'mock' memorial. All the men mentioned on it are actually alive at the time. It might be a 'present' of some kind, a special occasion from the Palmerston 'lads'.
Photographs of the Northern Territory
Photographs of Aboriginal people and places in the Northern Territory, including Point Charles, Brocks Creek, and Powell Creek in the early twentieth century.
Adelaide views album
Album of photographs of Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, many of them taken by Samuel Sweet (images 1-80). Images 81-82 of Ceylon, nos. 83-95 of Malta, 96-101 of Windsor Castle and St George's Chapel, Windsor, 102-103 of Oxford, and 104-107 of English coastal town/s. Items 108-111 (loose in back of album) are prints from clasical scenes. Attribution for the photographs are as follows: images 1-50, 73 are by Sweet; images 77-79, and possibly 80 are by Charles Bayliss. Overseas scenes (images 81-111) have not been copied.
Aboriginal Australians
A series of photographs of Australian Aborigines, taken by photographer J.J. Noyce in the late 1960s / early 1970s. There is limited information on the back of the prints - see 'contents' for details of items. Images 13-15 are restricted.
Bonds Tour of Central Australia
A photographic album of photos taken by Shirley Cameron Wilson on a Bonds bus tour to Central Australia and the Flinders Ranges. Key images of the Bond's bus are: 9. A group of men digging out a Bonds Tour bus stuck in a creek bed; 10. Bonds Tour bus with back wheels in a creek bed; 11. Bonds Tour bus (registration number 217 333), driving across a wide creek; 12. Bonds Tour bus and passengers beside a cliff; 14. Bonds Tour camping tents beside a cliff, with the bus at one side; 18. Front wheel of the Bonds Tour bus (Darwin run) being dug out by the driver; 49. Bonds Tour bus (Darwin run), covered in tarpaulin, on railway carrier; 52. Wilpena Chalet, operated by Bonds Tours in the Flinders Ranges, with Mount Ohlssen Bagge in the background; and 53. Dining room of the Wilpena Chalet, operated by Bonds Tours in the Flinders Ranges.
Heinrich family album
Heinrich family album, compiled by Ilona Oppenheim from loose family photographs. Notes found on the verso of photographs are noted in the caption in inverted commas. Topics include life at Hermannsburg Mission in the Northern Territory in the nineteen twenties, with photographs of some Aboriginal people and visitors to Hermannsburg, including scientists, government officials and tourists. Photos 293-295 are restricted from view pending assessment of Aboriginal content. These images include 293. Ceremonial tjuringa stones of the Hermannsburg area (restricted); 294. 'Manangananga' sacred cave (restricted); 295. 'Holy cave 17 April 1929 (Dad's birthday)'. Large group of Aboriginal people from the Hermannsburg Mission gathered at a sacred spot (restricted). Photos 296-302 have not been digitised. These are duplicated elsewhere in other Heinrich albums or lantern slides.
Base camp in the saddle
Base camp in the saddle. Fort Point, with the Gulnare in distance. Copy 2 is marked '19' [also at B 4650][2 copies].
Lieutenant John McIntosh arriving in Longreach
Lieutenant John McIntosh standing amidst a crown of admirers after landing in Longreach, 13 August 1920, 11 days after arriving in Darwin, completing the 208 day flight from England to Australia in which he participated with Lieutenant Raymond Parer. Their aircraft, a single-engine de Havilland D.H.9 biplane, G-EAQM, can be seen in the background.
Lieutenant Raymond Parer arriving in Longreach
Lieutenant Ray Parer (centre) with his mother Myria (or Maria, nee Carolin) as they are making their way to their car, standing amidst a crown of admirers after landing in Longreach, 13 August 1920, 11 days after arriving in Darwin, completing the 208 day flight from England to Australia in which he participated with Lieutenant John McIntosh. This was the first time mother and son had been reunited since Parer embarked for active service in 1917.
Ghan locomotives
View of the Ghan locomotives hauling the first passenger train to Darwin, taken from the Parafield Railway Station. The locomotives are bright red with 'The Ghan' logo. It arrived in Darwin on 3 February 2004.
Photographs of Marjorie Andrew
Photographs selected from an album, showing holidays and work in South Australia and the Northern territory from 1937 to 1938. Comprising South Australian views and scenes: Holidays to Tumby Bay and the Eyre Peninsula, Barmera, Victor Harbor, a paddle steamer holiday on the Murray River, Point McLeay Mission Station (now Raukkan), portraits with family and friends, Henley-on-Torrens Regatta, and ships. Northern Territory views and scenes include: group portraits of friends and colleagues from the Allied Works Council in Alice Springs, including the A.W.C. hostels, Anzac Day celebrations in Alice Springs, holiday views of the McDonnell Ranges and surrounding locations and beaches near Darwin, and sites in Darwin, some showing military locations and the destruction after the bombing raid in 1942. Also includes some photographs of Australian troops and camps at the end of the Second World War, on the Indonesian island of Morotai. To view images, do an ARCHIVAL NUMBER search for PRG 1708/3.
Views of South Australia
Album of views by Capt. Sweet of South Australia including Adelaide, North Adelaide, Glenelg, Port Adelaide, Norton Summit, Clarendon, Farina and the Botanic Gardens. See 'contents' for more details.
Ray Parer and John McIntosh in the England-Australia Air Race, Bandar Abbas
Ray Parer and John McIntosh in front of their DH9 G-EAQM 'PD'. They arrived at at Bandar Abbas on 5 March 1920 and left the next day. The Airco DH.9 with Lieutenant Ray Parer as pilot and John McIntosh as co-pilot, departed Hounslow 8 January 1920 (after the Vickers Vimy crew had already successfully completed their flight), and landed at Darwin 2 August 1920. They were the first single-engined aircraft to complete a flight from Engalnd to Australia and although ineligible for the competition - their flight having taken 206 days and the Vimy crew already having been successful - they were awarded a £1000 consolation prize.
Ella Shepherdson and friends, Thursday Island
"My wife and friends on Thursday Island, our first trip to Darwin". The Shepherdsons travelled to Darwin by boat along the Queensland coast. Thursday Island was a pick-up and drop-off point for passengers and cargo-missionaries in Papua New Guinea.
Karlu Karlu/Devils Marbles
"?Devils Marbles en route to Darwin by bus". View, possibly of the Devils Marbles/Karlu Karlu from a bus to Darwin.
Town in Northern Territory
"?En route to Darwin by bus". View of houses in a town, taken from a bus on the way to Darwin.
Town in Northern Territory
"?En route to Darwin by bus". View of houses in a town, taken from a bus on the way to Darwin.
Photographs relating to George Dankel
Photographs relating to George Dankel, comprising early farming scenes and including Aboriginal people and Aboriginal dwellings. One of the images has been positively identified as created by D. Darian Smith, with the remainder strongly attributed to the photographer. On comparison with SLSA images of Hermannsburg and the Aranda (Arrernte/Aranta), it is possible that the location of the images is Alice Springs, Terowie, Finke River and McDonnell Ranges area (see PRG 1559/8/1-295). One image has been withdrawn from access and viewing online (PRG 638/5/16) : Unknown location, a group on twelve young Aboriginal children standing with four men, ca. 1930 (negative, black and white, 9 x 14 cm). This image has been restricted from general viewing for cultural reasons. To discuss accessing this image contact the Library's enquiry service 08 8207 7250 or info@slsa.sa.gov.au.
Album relating to early South Australia and Northern Territory
Photographs, sketches and news clippings pasted onto loose album pages, relating to the early history of South Australia and the Northern Territory. Includes captioned photographs of the kangaroo hunting expedition near Lake Albert in November 1867 at which Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, was a guest. Other items in the albums include photographs and copies of sketches of Aboriginal people, and images of surveyors and land selectors in the Northern Territory. A number of unrelated clippings and images have been added to the album, possibly by Daly's children.
Adelaide River. Railway bridge
Railway Bridge over Adelaide River 72 miles from Darwin on the railway line.
Adelaide River. Herd of Pigs
Pigs bred near Pt. Darwin on the Adelaide River watched by a Stockman and an Aboriginal man with two women.
Telegraph Station
Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Telegraph Station marks the original site of the first European settlement in South Australia. It was established in 1871 to relay messages between Darwin and Adelaide and linking with an underwater cable network to London providing the first communication between Australia and England. In 1874 twenty five square miles around the station was procalimed a reserve and the town in the middle was named Stuart. The Telegraph Station precinct contained the following outbuildings - policemen's quarters, harness and buggy sheds, stationmaster's residence, battery room, blacksmith's shop and a kitchen-mess room. These buildings are shown in the photograph which was taken from the east side.
Telegraph Station
[General description] The Alice Springs Telegraph Station with its group of outbuildings, constructed from local stone. It is set against the picturesque MacDonnell Ranges near a permament waterhole named Alice Springs after the wife of Charles Todd who was the head of the overland telegraph project at the time. The station is one of twelve repeater stations on the line between Adelaide and Darwin. Established in 1872 it operated for 60 years. [On back of photograph] 'Telegraph Station, Alice Springs / c. 1900 / compare with B 8349 which is stated to be 1896'.
Telegraph Station
Telegraph Station and stockyard, Alice Springs. The stone station and outbuildings were established in 1872 to relay messages between Darwin and Adelaide. It was one of twelve stations along the Overland Telegraph Line. The first postmaster was Johannes Mueller.
Brock's Creek
Passengers next to the engine at the Railway Station, Brock's Creek. Darwin and Pine Creek Railway.
Burra
View of Henry Hampden Dutton and Murray Aunger in a 1908 Clemens Talbot car at Burra during their journey crossing Australia from Adelaide to Darwin in 1908, accompanied by Henry Dutton's fox terrier 'Dick'. The car is outside a garage surrounded by well wishers; it is now in the Birdwood Museum in perfect driving condition.
Darwin
S. S. "Stjeh" at anchor, west of Fort Hill, Senior Surveyor's residence on left. Steamship "Atjeh" was a 954 tons vessel.
Mounted Constable Charles Brookes at Simpsons Gap
Mounted Constable Charles Brookes, at Simpsons Gap, May 1891 MC Brookes was based at Heavitree Gap, which is about 12 miles ride ESE from Simpsons Gap. Photo was very likely taken during Lord Kintore's survey when he travelled from Darwin to Adelaide along the Overland Telegraph line, arriving in Alice Springs 8 May 1891.
Escape Cliffs Settlement, Northern Territory
Storehouse and assistant storekeepers residence showing the use of logs and thatch to make buildings. Escape Cliffs Settlement was the site of the fourth attempt to establish a settlement in the Northern Territory. It was situated near the mouth of the Adelaide River, north east of Darwin. It was abondoned in 1867 following conflicts with the local Marananggu people.