• Title
  Photographs of the Simms family of La Perouse, ca. 1900-ca. 1950
• Call number
  PXE 1368
  FM2/2067
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1900-ca. 1950
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  909886
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  27 photographs, 1 newsclipping - 31.8 x 38.2 cm and smaller
  30 negatives
  
• Collection history
  Photographs formally in the possession of Dr. Eunice McClure. Reference: Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  PXE 1368
  1. Wes Simms with French officers holding boomerangs
  2. Wes Simms with 5 men, 3 with boomerangs
  3. Jack and Wes Simms with 5 men, 1 woman showing a boomerang to a naval officer
  4. Jack Simms making boomerangs
  5. Rita [May] Simms, wife of Robert Simms (colour)
  6. Australian Aborigine with weapons
  7. Australian Aborigine with weapons
  8. Wes Simms in Australian army uniform
  9. Edward Simms with kangaroo
  10. Sally McKenzie
  11. Renee Foster
  12. Edward Simms with American soldier and boomerang (newscutting)
  13. Robert Simms, younger brother of Wes Simms, with boomerang
  14. Robert Simms
  15. Auntie Ol and Florence Hancock
  16. Olive Simms and Doris Dan
  17. Auntie Olive and ? in front of old Chidley home, La Perouse
  18. Wesley Simms, La Perouse, Botany Bay
  19. Joby Simms, Wes Simms
  20. Billy Samules, La Perouse
  21. Mag Duncan
  22. George Longbottom (brother-in-law Jean Stewart), Ernest Noble and Uncle Wes
  23. Joseph Simms
  24. Billy Samuels, boxer
  25. Old Joby Simms and Uncle Wesley Simms
  26. Unidentified woman and two children
  27. Three men outside a shed
  28. Two stacks of boomerangs
  
  FM2/2067
  Negatives
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Pic.Acc. Update Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc. 5798 as part of the eRecords Project, 2012-2013
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1255997
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Photographs are identified
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  5. Rita [May] Simms, wife of Robert Simms (colour). Identified by family as May Simms. Verso of image inscribed Rita.
• Name
  Simms, Wesley
  Simms, Joby
  Simms, Jack
  Simms, Olive
  Longbottom, George
  Samuels, Billy
  Simms, Rita
  
• Subject
  Photographs.
  Photography of families.
  Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales--La Perouse.
  boomerangs
  World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Aboriginal Australian
  
• Topic
  families
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  
• Place
  La Perouse (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9324190

View Media Files

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

12.

13.

14.

15.

16.

17.

18.

19.

20.

21.

22.

23.

24.

25.

26.

27.

Show more