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Rice's Creek school
Rice's Creek school building which was purchased by Daisy Bates and taken to Ooldea. When it closed, the school building was dismantled and taken to Ooldea in 1938 as a school for about thirty Aboriginal children, who were being taught in a dilapidated structure which did not provided shelter from wind or rain. The school was under the charge of the United Aborigines Mission. See 'The Advertiser', Saturday 10 September 1938, page 14, for further details. A researcher has suggested that the school was not purchased by Daisy Bates.
First passenger journey Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie : Storage tanks
Water storage tanks.
Daisy Bates
Sketch of Daisy Bates by Kerwin Maegraith from an original sketch done at Ooldea.
High Commissioner
High Commissioners visit to Ooldea well.
High Commissioner
High Commissioners visit to Ooldea Well.
High Commissioner
High Commissioners visit at Ooldea Well.
High Commissioner
High Commissioners visit at Ooldea Well.
High Commissioners Visit
High Commissioners visit at Ooldea.
High Commissioners Visit
High Commissioners visit at Ooldea.
Supplies
Packing supplies to Ooldea.
Railway Camp
Railway camp at Ooldea.
Condenser
Condenser near Ooldea.
An album of photographs mostly from Point Pearce and Koonibba, South Australia
A collection of 71 black and white prints, of a settlement and of Aboriginal people at Koonibba Mission Children's Home, taken during the first half of the twentieth century at Koonibba Mission. Images feature Aboriginal helpers at the home pre 1926. See 'contents' for details of items. Some of these were taken at Point Pearce and also Colebrook.
First passenger journey Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie : newspaper cuttings
Newspaper cuttings : continuation of 'Ooldea via the east-west railway' by Capt. S.A. White, M.B.O.U. from The Register 16th November 1917 (B 14102/44); 'A Desert Oasis', 'First Train on the way' and 'Train leaves Port Augusta' extracts from Advertiser 23rd October 1917.
Daisy Bates's Eucla camp
The description on the reverse side of the photograph reads: "Eucla Area Nation. The two men are dead. The young man next the native woman was her fourteenth husband. When next she came to me at my Ooldea camp she had a fifteenth husband, since dead. All belonged to waters far north of Eucla area."
Photographs taken during surveys for the Transcontinental East-West railway route
A set of 47 of 55 lantern slides showing early survey work, terrain, water sources, vegetation, camel transport, settlements and landmarks along routes under consideration for the transcontinental railway between Kalgoorlie and Port Augusta, 1901-1909. Slides include views of rock holes, soaks, tanks; trees and timber including quandong, black oak and sandalwood; vegetation such as spinifex, salt bush; terrain including gibber plain, granite outcrops, sand dune and salt lakes; camels and camel transport; and locations identified as Kalgoorlie, Eucla, Ooldea Soak, Tarcoola. Some slides cover the visit to Eucla and the Nullarbor Plain of the Engineers-in-Chief (1903); two slides show teams of men and survey equipment on the Nullarbor Plain. An additional glass plate negative which was found with the slides and appears to relate to this group of lantern slides has been placed with them.
Lantern slides taken by Ruby Hyde
Fifty one lantern slides taken or collected by Matron Ruby Hyde during her years at Colebrook Home at Quorn. Five of the slides require special permission for viewing due to their cultural sensitivity. Another two slides require permission from an archivist. To see individual images do a NUMBER search on B 70884.
Aboriginal dwellings near a town
Dwellings made of corrugated iron and scrap materials on the outskirts of a town, location unknown, seen on the horizon. An old Aboriginal man is lying at the entrance to the middle dwelling. (A note for a caption for this image has the location as Ooldea, which is not likely. The town is in two parts with several buildings of large size, and a stone church can be seen.).
Aboriginal decorated shield
Decorated wooden shield from the west coast of South Australia, either Yalata or Ooldea, and made for sale.
Aboriginal undecorated shield
Undecorated shield made from mulga wood from the west coast of South Australia, either Yalata or Ooldea, and made for sale.
Aboriginal boomerang
Boomerang from the west coast of South Australia, either Yalata or Ooldea, decorated with white clay inside incisions.
Daisy Bates with Aboriginal warriors
Daisy Bates kneeling in the centre of a group of Aboriginal warriors who are holding long spears; location unknown but possibly near Ooldea where Daisy Bates lived from 1918 for sixteen years.
Faith Thomas : SUMMARY RECORD
Records of Faith Thomas, including photographs of children at Colebrook Home at Quorn, other papers relating to Colebrook Home (thesis, correspondence, attendees, publications, newspaper cuttings), papers relating to her training and work as a nurse, subject files on topics of interest to Faith (mostly relating to Aboriginal people), papers and photos relating to Faith's cricket career (also other sports), videos, sound recordings, and trophies.
Photos from a report on the reconstruction of the East West Telegraph Line
A series of photos taken to illustrate the reconstruction of the East West Telegraph Line report prepared by Don Burnard. Two have been lost: 1. Geographical map of the East-West Trunk Route; and 7. Party layout.
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Country north of Fowler's Bay [cartographic material]
Pastoral plan of land between Fowler's Bay and Ooldea. Includes names of leaseholders, telegraph line, Delisser's survey line and road. Ink and watercolour on tracing paper.
Norman family photographs
Photographs collected by the Norman family. A listing has been made by number (1-921) and by alphabetical order, attached to this record (see attached special list for details). A further 30 original photographs of Echuca, Maloga, Aboriginal people, and the Norman and Magarey families (some have captions on backs) have been added to this series and continue the numbering sequence to 951.
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.