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9659598
  • Title
    Photographs mostly of New Guinea
  • Call number
    PXA 7405
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1923-1930
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    9659598
  • Physical Description
    29 photographs - gelatin silver
  • Scope and Content
    1. A. Davis. First Superintendent Lithgow Ambulance Station, with son seated. At right G. Purdie volunteer bearer, 1923
    Transferred from P1/Davis, A.

    2. Katoomba Ambulance 1927. G. Field Station Officer
    Transferred from SPG/Katoomba Ambulance Men

    3. Plane D.H. 9 Ross & Taylor Dived into Sela Harbour
    Transferred from SPF/Aeronautics - Ross & Taylor

    4. Last[?] Bathurst to Sydney cycl race. Bowenfels at junction of old & present Great Western Highway
    Transferred from SPF/Cycling

    Transferred from SPF/New Britain - Rabaul and SPF/New Britain - Rabaul - Baths
    5. Part of Chinatown Rabaul
    6. Rabaul Baths

    7. Native dance Kabaul, King's Birthday 1927
    Transferred from SPF/New Britain Natives - Rites and Ceremonies, 1927

    8. Famous Lae tree
    Transferred from SPF/New Guinea

    9. Bridge Bulolo...
    Transferred from SPF/New Guinea - Bulolo (Morobe Province) - Bridges, c. 1928-1930

    Transferred from SPF/New Guinea - Morobe province - Edie Creek, c. 1928-1930
    10. On the Goldfield Edie Creek, A. Roach, H. Wales
    11. Taken at Edie Creek, Harry Darby's big wash up in 1929...
    12. Edie Creek 1928. Old warden's court left rear and wireless station in foreground...
    13. Mateer and South's claim on the Merri Creek just before farms Edie Creek near the old warden's office. Working the sluice boxes

    Transferred from SPF/New Guinea - Salamaua, c. 1923-1930 and SPF/New Guinea - Salamaua, 1929
    14. Salamoa the port for Edie Creek...
    15. Hangman's scaffold Salamaua...
    16. Salamaua Hotel 1929

    17. Old P.O. & Courthouse Salamaua N.G. 1929
    Transferred from SPF/New Guinea - Salamaua - Public Buildings - Post Office & Courthouse, 1929

    18. M. Cameron's Billiard Saloon Salamaua 1928. Cameron in front...holding billiard cue
    Transferred from SPF/New Guinea - Salamaua - Shops etc. - Cameron’s Billiard Salon, 1928

    Transferred from SPF/New Guinea - Wau ; SPF/New Guinea - Wau, c. 1928-30 and SPF/New Guinea - Wau, 1930
    19. In action on Wau courts...
    20. Mt Kaindi, Wau Creek
    21. Ray Parer's house Wau aerodrome eventually collapsed
    22. Our mountain home Wau 1928-30
    23. Government Offices Wau 1930

    24. Hoop pine bunya and Kauri at the Wau
    Transferred from SPF/New Guinea - Wau, Morobe Province, c. 1928-1930

    25. Lae aerodrome
    Transferred from SPF/New Guinea - Wau - Aerodrome, c. 1928-1930

    26. Native [?], Wau. Natives grass thatching
    Transferred from SPF/New Guinea - Wau - Residences

    27. Warden [?] on left
    Transferred from SPF/New Guinea - Wau - Residences - Wardens House

    28. [Photograph of Indigenous men possible on goldfield]
    Transferred from SPF/New Guinea Islanders
    Notes verso of photograph

    29. Wunawutung Hotel New Britain
    Transferred from SPF/Rabaul - Hotels - Wunawutung Hotel
  • General note

    Transferred from the Small Pictures File (Self Indexing File), Mitchell Library Reading Room, 2013.
    Transferred from PXA 2144/Box 12/nos. 99-119 in June 2021.
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