Box 05: Photographs by Jeff Carter from the Fairfax Media archive: arranged by subject - Minnamurra Falls; Miscellaneous - Industry/Workers; Miscellaneous - Portraits; Miscellaneous - Various; Mount Stromlo Observatory; and Muschrooms

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MINNAMURRA FALLS, N.S.W., ca. 1960s and undated (13 photographs)
Includes photographs of Minnamurra Falls; tourists and visitors; ranger Howard Judd; and Whispering Galleries.

MISCELLANEOUS - INDUSTRY/WORKERS, ca. 1962-1971 and undated (17 photographs)
Includes photographs of rabbit shooters camp; German Charlie's trailer with bulldozer in main street of Tibooburra, N.S.W.; blacksmith; Peter Haar working on a shoe; construction of high school, Darwin, N.T.; workers bottlin oysters at Shell Point, Woolaware Bay, N.S.W.; barracks area, Cabramurra, N.S.W.; bores and bore sinking equipment; 1968 Ord cotton crop outside the Kununurra ginnery, W.A.; workers outside Labor office, Port Hedland, W.A.;

The rig and camp on a gibber flat between sandhills on Fort Gray station
Bore casing ready to line the hole as it is drilled. Lengths are screwed together with "collars"
Serge Cook takes a collar off a length of bore casing
One of the 4 drag lines (mechanical excavators) on the job at Coleambally canal. Each weighs 130 tons, can take 5 ton bites of earth

MISCELLANEOUS - PORTRAITS, (12 photographs)
Includes photographs of dancer at Jolly Roger nightclub; Cook Barry Skinner fills the outfit's water supply tins from stock trough; Signpost, Birdsville, Qld; Elsmere Caines, wife of overseer Neville Caines, with children Yvette, Steven, Sharyn, Smithville Outpost, N.S.W.; Herbert Stanley Hall and his 40-year old parrot; tourist on a marooned bus Kulgera; snooker; Elliot Price at one of the bores on Muloorina, S.A.; "Yankee" and camel riders, Wallera Ranch; and Lindsay Hain, Mayor of Cooma, in general store.

MISCELLANEOUS - VARIOUS SUBJECTS (5 photographs)
Includes photographs of view from Jamberoo of area around Kiama, N.S.W.; Council Chambers, Bourke, N.S.W.; Todd Street curio shop and art gallery, Alice Springs, N.T.; main street of Myrtleford, Vic., with Italian businesses; and Wild Country Park at Foxground, N.S.W..

MOUNT STROMLO OBSERVATORY, A.C.T. (14 photographs)
Includes photographs of Mount Stromlo Observatory; phonig timing device; employees at Mount Stromlo including Clement Bright (technical assistant), Herman Wehner, Ronald Galbreath, Peter Alexander (technical assistant), Dr Theodore Dunham, Dr Bengt Westerlund (Uppsala University, Sweden), M.J. Miller (time service technician), and Willy van Pelt; grinding machine; atlas from photos of H2 region of Southern Milky Way; quartz clocks and time keeping equipment; and control panel of reflector.

MUSHROOMS (3 photographs)
Includes photographs showing various stages of mushrooms; mushrooms growing in a disused railway tunnel; and wild mushrooms, Glenrock Farm.

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