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Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation photo album

Lewis (Family), c. 1941, Photograph, PRG 247/143

Photograph album of the aircraft and production factories of the Australian aircraft manufacturer Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) during the World War II era.

ELDO Project, Gove

1967, Photograph, B 78426/1-9

Buildings, machinery and equipment, at the Down Range Guidance Station, Gove. The station tracked and guided ELDO (European Launcher Development Organisation) vehicles that were launched from Woomera into a polar orbit [See B 78413 - B 78425 for views of the station].

Terry Clark Collection : SUMMARY RECORD

Clark, Terry, c. 1950, Mixed material, PRG 1718

A collection of negatives, colour transparencies, photographic prints and videos by Woomera photographer Terry Clark.

Phillip's Ponds Eating House

c. 1890, Photograph, B 26070

Phillip's Ponds Eating House, on the outskirts of Woomera, which may have been on a Cobb and Co route to head north to Alice Springs. This building was central to the advance party to establish the Woomera Rocket Range in the late 1940s, early 1950s. The building is to the right of the man made Phillip Ponds catchment dam [information provided by a researcher].

Norm Saunders

1947, Photograph, B 46100

Norm Saunders, Kangaroo shooter with a shot kangaroo by his Maxwell truck.

Atomic bomb test, South Australia, 1953

1953, Photograph, B 72429

Press photograph, with grey gouache highlights, of the first nuclear test on the Australian mainland, Totem 1, which was carried out at Emu Field in the Great Victoria Desert, north-western South Australia on 15 October 1953. Verso with wet stamps dated OCT 19 1953, and pastedown newspaper clipping (from an American newspaper): 'ATOMIC CLOUD: In South Australia - A cloud formed over the Woomera rocket range after a recent atomic test conducted by British scientists. - A.P. wirephoto.' See History note in 'More info'.

Recovery site of Sparta 'RV-2' missile

1967, Photograph, PRG 1464/3/49

Photo of three men, identified (left to right) as Des (?), Recovery Officer Don Tungate, and Marty Babcock at the RV-2 recovery site, Woomera Rocket Range. M.H. (Marty) Babcock, Manager of System Development, Sparta Project, TRW Systems, sent Tungate the photo with a personal note (PRG 1464/3/50) and his business card (PRG 1464/3/51). Black and white photo taken by TRW Systems. TRW Incorporated (California, USA) was responsible for system development of the Sparta Project. The photo was intended for publication on page 51 of Tungate's 'Woomera Odyssey: A personal narrative' (PRG 1464/5).

Bullock team

c. 1920, Photograph, B 44491

A bullock team at work near Woomera.

Aboriginal Hunter

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1876, Photograph, B 23516

GENERAL: Aboriginal hunter. An Aboriginal man in a kangaroo fur cloak, holding a woomera, and shield with incised diamond pattern. There is a boomerang in the woven bag over his shoulder. Sweet Adelaide 457.

Country Womens Association

1957, Photograph, B 44353

Country Womens Association Display during Education Week, 11th -17th August, 1957. Sponsored by the Woomera Community and C.W.A.

Norm Saunders

1947, Photograph, B 46099

Norm Saunders, Kangaroo Shooter with dead rabbits and a wedge tailed eagle.

Aboriginal man at Ernabella

Smith, Robin, c. 1970, Photograph, B 68994

An Aboriginal man crafting a woomera from mulga wood, with a young boy beside him.

Photographs of South Australian Hotels

Zajac, d-mo, 2006, Photograph, B 71547/1-73

Collection of photographs on CD-ROM of hotels in Clare, Crystal Brook, Port Augusta, Port Pirie, Snowtown, Port Wakefield, and Whyalla, with some scenes of surrounding areas. See 'contents' for details of individual images.

Weapons Research Establishment employees

1958, Photograph, PRG 1464/3/1

Uncaptioned group photograph of 16 men and 6 women, including members of the British contingent of staff and scientists working for Weapons Research Establishment (W.R.E.) in South Australia. Several men are wearing military officers' uniforms, including U.K. Squadron Leader Donald Tungate, Royal Air Force (front row, far left). Location is probably Salisbury, SA (or possibly Woomera).

Wild Dog Creek

1966, Photograph, PRG 1464/3/3

Wild Dog Creek, Woomera Rocket Range.

Launch of 'Sparta Missile SV-3' at Woomera, Australia

1967, Photograph, PRG 1464/3/15

Missile launch at '08.37 20 April 1967'. Annotated colour enlargement of a photo taken by TRW Systems. TRW Incorporated (California, USA) was responsible for system development of the Sparta Project.

Wild Dog Creek causeway

1968, Photograph, PRG 1464/3/19

Wild Dog Creek causeway, Woomera Rocket Range.

Don Tungate at missile recovery site, Woomera Rocket Range

c. 1975, Photograph, PRG 1464/3/28

Range Recovery Officer, Donald Tungate (left) and an unidentified member of the 'Ranges Team' (in white clothing, holding headphones) survey a nose cone on the ground. Uncaptioned Polaroid colour print.

View of Painted Hills range, South Australia

c. 1968, Photograph, PRG 1464/3/46

Colour photo of the Painted Hills range, located southeast of Lake Eyre North. The print was intended for publication on page 108 of Tungate's 'Woomera Odyssey: A personal narrative', in which he also refers to the Lake Cadibarrawirracanna hills and the recovery of a motor in the sand after the launch of 'Skylark 606' (PRG 1464/5).

View of Peculiar Knob, South Australia

c. 1971, Photograph, PRG 1464/3/48

Colour aerial photo of the arid terrain surrounding 'Peculiar Knob' south east of Lake Eyre North. The print was intended for publication on page 144 of Tungate's 'Woomera Odyssey: A personal narrative' in which he refers to an area 'north of The Twins fence' [The Twins Watercourse] (PRG 1464/5).

Carved wooden panels

Dunstan, Douglas A., 1980, Artwork, D 8288(Misc)

Carved [mahogany?] wooden panels by Douglas A. Dunstan commemorating SA's Sesquicentenary and the Evolution of the Book. See 'Contents' for details.

Glass lantern slides featuring Aboriginal people and missions

Kramer (Family), c. 1910, Photograph, PRG 1322/51/1-49

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.

Photograph albums belonging to Hermann and Hilda Heinrich

Heinrich, Hermann Adolph, 1919, Photograph, PRG 1559/7/1-234

Records comprise photographs taken from three photograph albums belonging to Hermann and Hilda Heinrich. Captions found on the photographs have been noted in quotation marks. Some captions have been provided by Ilona Oppenheim. Photographs show activities in and around Hermannsburg Mission, people of the Mission, Alice Springs, Darwin, Henbury Station, Gosse Ranges, Palm Valley and other places in Central Australia.