• Title
  File 09: Walkabout magazine : South Australian photographs [Rapid Bay, BHP workers, uranium mine, Coober Pedy]
• Call number
  PXA 907/Box 79
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  1941-1966
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  412957
• Physical Description
  41 photographic prints - 20 x 25 cm or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  Numbers in brackets = original Walkabout negative numbers
  
  RAPID BAY
  
  1. [Metropolitan Vickers limestone tram, Rapid Bay, 1947] / I.Hiddilston for Australian Geographical Society (3257)
  
  BHP WORKERS
  
  2. Norwegian splicing [steel cable] in the shipwright's shop, BHP Whyalla, published Walkabout June 1947 / I.Hiddilston (G.3000)
  3. [Working on slipway, n.d.] / (3008)
  4. Welder, plate and bar shop, Whyalla, 1947 published Walkabout June 1947 / I.Hiddilston (G.3011)
  5. [Shipbuilders], 1947 / I.Hiddilston (3013)
  6. [Riveting inside hull of ship], Whyalla, published Walkabout June 1947 / I.Hiddilston (G.3012)
  7-9. [Workers in the smelters], Whyalla, 1947 / I.Hiddilston (G.3018 G.3019 G.3025)
  10. Loading foot hole with explosive, limestone [mine], Rapid Bay, 1947 / I.Hiddilston (G.3262)
  11. Ingots of silver [from] smelter, Port Pirie, 1947 / I.Hiddilston (G.3305)
  12. Dore metal from cupellation furnace, Port Pirie, 1947 / I.Hiddilston for Australian Geographical Society (G.3309)
  13. Scooping molten lead out of vat, Port Pirie, 1947 / (3054)
  14. Lead moulding, Port Pirie, 1947 / (3058)
  15. Drilling foot holes for blasting limestone, Rapid Bay, 1947, published Walkabout Jan 1949 / I.Hiddilston (G.3264)
  16. Machinist, Port Pirie (?), 1947 / I.Hiddilston (G.3313)
  17-23. [Shipbuilding yard developed for the War effort, (no.23 is a portrait of Whyalla superintendent, R.T. Kleeman)], Whyalla, [1941], (no.19 published Walkabout Sept 1941) / (7586 7587 7588 7590 7591 7592 7598)
  24. [Two men with swags on the last stage of the journey to Whyalla to work for the War effort, ca. 1941] / (7621)
  25. [Meal break for shipyard workers under a poster of Churchill with the words: "Churchill's message. Come then ... Let us to the Task, to the Battle and the Toil, each to our Part, each to our Station, fill the Armies, rule the Air, pour out the Munitions, strangle the U-boats, build the Ships, and honour the Brave. Let us go forward together in all parts of the Empire. There is not a week, nor a day, nor an hour to be lost."], Whyalla, [ca. 1941] / (7622)
  
  URANIUM MINE
  
  26. [Miners enter] East Painter Uranium Mine, Aug 1947, published Walkabout June 1948 / R.Bean for Australian Geographical Society (G.3625)
  27. Flinders Ranges from East Painter Mine [tailings dump], Aug 1947 / R.Bean for Australian Geographical Society (G.3626)
  28. Mr Betheris, mine manager, uses Geiger-Mueller radio activity counter, Aug 1947, published June 1948 & Dec 1952 / R.Bean (G.3629)
  29. [Mr Betheris inspects] diamond drill, East Painter Mine, Aug 1947, published June 1948 & Dec 1952 / R.Bean (G.3630)
  30. East Painter mining camp, Aug 1947, published June 1948 / R.Bean for Australian Geographical Society (G.3632)
  
  COOBER PEDY
  
  31-39. [Aerials of] Coober Pedy, Sept 1946, no. 5 published Walkabout Nov 1946 & June 1952, and no. 6 published Walkabout Sept 1954 / P.Payens (G.2465 G.2466 G.2467 G.2468 G.2469 G.2470 G.2472 G.2473 G.2474)
  40. Christmas party at [the front door of] an underground home, Cooper Pedy, Nov 1966 / ANTA (3364)
  41. [Underground Commonwealth Savings Bank and Post Office, Coober Pedy, pre-1957] / (P.4193)
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright restrictions may apply:
  Copyright holder:: Tourism Australia
  Rights and Restrictions Information:: On behalf of Tourism Australia, the State Library of New South Wales is authorised to approve reproduction and use of all images in this collection, for publication and broadcast (all media), without further consultation.
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Tourism Australia
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Australian Geographical Society
  Australian National Publicity Association
  Australian National Travel Association
  Bean, R.
  Hiddilston, I.
  Payens, P. V.
  
• Name
  Australia. Postmaster-General's Department
  Betheris, Mr
  Commonwealth Bank of Australia (to 1959)
  Kleeman, R. T.
  Walkabout (periodical)
  World War (1939-1945)
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  boys
  Broken Hill Proprietary Company.
  
• Topic
  interiors
  aerial photographs
  banks
  Christmas parties
  explosives
  Geiger counters
  goods trains
  lead
  limestone quarries
  managers
  metalworkers
  miners
  post offices
  shipwrights
  shipyards
  silver
  smelters
  swagmen
  underground houses
  uranium mines
  war workers
  welders
  
• Place
  Coober Pedy (S. Aust.)
  East Painter Uranium Mine (S. Aust.)
  Port Pirie (S. Aust.)
  Rapid Bay (S. Aust.)
  Whyalla (S. Aust.)
  
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