Box 02: Photographs by Jeff Carter from the Fairfax Media archive: arranged by subject - Cannery; Caterpillars; Cattle; Caves; Chair lifts/skiing; Cooma; Desert/drought; Dingoes; Dover Heights cliff rescue ladder; Eggs; and Eucalyptus oil distilling

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probably between 1957 and 1977

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9684355

79 photographs - various sizes - gelatin silver

CANNERY, undated (6 photographs)
Includes portraits of Ralph Spalding with fruit boxes at Leeton Co-op Cannery Ltd; jam maker Arthur Harrison; quality control laboratory; and photographs of canning factory.

CATERPILLARS, 1966 (5 photographs)
Includes photographs of caterpillar procession or train; and Bluebird film unit filming caterpillars.

CATTLE, 1965 and undated (5 photographs)
Includes photographs of yoking of bullock teams; cattle feeding in bushland; and drought-affected cattle.

CAVES, ca. 1965-1971 (11 photographs)
Includes photographs of caves probably in Central Australia; rock art, including stencilled hand and x-ray painting from Northern Australia; tourist guide Lance Rust; tourists exploring caves; cave sacred to the Loritja tribe; Indigenous Australian guide and Mare Carter in Western Arnhem Land; copies of Wandjina cave paintings in the Kimberleys made by explorer George Grey in 1837; and vandalised rock art near Alice Springs, N.T.

CHAIR LIFTS/SKIING, ca. 1962-1968 (6 photographs)
Includes photographs probably of Nobby's Hill aerial cableway, Gold Coast, Queensland; and skiier applying cornflour to ski.

COOMA, N.S.W., 1971, 1977? and undated (4 photographs)
Includes photographs of Cooma Post Office and Court House; view of Cooma; flags in park; and view of Motel Cooma.

DESERT/DROUGHT, ca. 1964-1968 and undated (11 photographs)
Includes photographs of Sturt's Stony Desert; landscape near Mount Connor [Conner?]; dead native grasses; landscape near Mount Hopeless, S.A.; bridge over Darling River at North Bourke, N.S.W.; Arrabury station homestead; and arid landscapes.

DINGOES, ca. 1966-1971 (3 photographs)
Includes photographs of dingoes, including chained pet dingo and dingo in Central Australia.

DOVER HEIGHTS CLIFF RESCUE LADDER, undated (9 photographs)
Includes photographs of Dover Heights cliff rescue ladder and its builders Harold Simpson, Alfred Elboz, Brian Simpson, and Judith Whalley.

EGGS, ca. 1949-1968 and undated (11 photographs)
Includes photographs relating to poultry farm (probably Brinawa Poultry Farm, N.S.W.) and employees Ruth Jeffery and Gordon Orange; daily production cards and other equipment, Brinawa Poultry Farm, N.S.W.; James Carter doing tapestry; and photographs of newspaper articles relating to Egg Board, 1949-1951.

EUCALYPTUS OIL DISTILLING, [1957] (8 photographs)
Includes photographs of William "Sharkey" Simpson and George Simpson distilling eucalyptus oil in bush, near Batlow, N.S.W.
(dated from photographs held by the National Library of Australia)

In copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Copy: Copy photographs of newspaper articles, 1949-1951, possibly made at a later date.