| Accession No. |
Captions: |
| PIC 3404/1 |
1938: Darwin, Cavenagh street, banyan
tree. Fang Chong Loongs extreme left. |
| PIC 3404/2 |
1938: Darwin, Cavenagh Street,
Kyriakos "Zero in the tropics". |
| PIC 3404/3 |
1938: Darwin, Victoria Hotel. Police
utility truck with two black trackers. |
| PIC 3404/4 |
1938: Darwin, far side of golf course
near the salt pans. Aboriginal in front of his humpie. |
| PIC 3404/5 |
1938: Darwin, far side of golf course
near the salt pans. Aboriginal humpie. |
| PIC 3404/6 |
July 1938: Groot Eylandt, looking WSW
along the sandspit from west of base area. |
| PIC 3404/7 |
July 1938: Looking west across scrub from
ridge of sandhills, boundary of Aboriginal reserve. Port Langdon is to
right. |
| PIC 3404/8 |
July 1938: Port Langdon end of ridge of
sandhills marking the boundary of the Aboriginal reserve. |
| PIC 3404/9 |
July 1938: Looking NNE from ridge of
sandhills marking the boundary of the Aboriginal reserve. Port Langdon to
left. |
| PIC 3404/10 |
July 1938: The Interior mens tents
looking approximately north west across Port Langdon. In the foreground are two
Shell tents. Aerial of pedal radio is visible from one. The officers
tents are not visible. The reticulation tank is to the right. |
| PIC 3404/11 |
July 1938: The Interior mens tents
looking approximately south across Little Lagoon. Photograph taken from a
sandhill. The officers tents are on the extreme right. The reticulation
tank is on the extreme left. |
| PIC 3404/12 |
July 1938: The carpenters
workshop. |
| PIC 3404/13 |
August 1938: The Buick truck by the
carpenters workshop with a load of coral rock. |
| PIC 3404/14 |
July 1938: Shell drums of fuel lying on
the Port Langdon beach. The Shell pipeline leading from Port Langdon can be
seen in the background. |
| PIC 3404/15 |
July 1938: shell drums of fuel lying on
the Port Langdon beach. One of the younger Interior workmen and dog. |
| PIC 3404/16 |
July 1938: The temporary jetty into Port
Langdon used for unloading the Cape Leeuwin" etc. Note the unserviceable
tractor on the beach. |
| PIC 3404/17 |
July 1938: The Shell pipeline from Port
Langdon with the launch Renown in background. Facing south
west. |
| PIC 3404/18 |
July 1938: a temporary tank built by
Shell, showing tramlines. |
| PIC 3404/19 |
July 1938: Tom who served at table in
front of mess tent. The tent furthest away on the right was occupied by Lewis
and F. Rose. |
| PIC 3404/20 |
July 1938: F. Rose in front of his tent.
Note wooden door and canvas fly. Other tents had flies of corrugated iron. |
| PIC 3404/21 |
5.9.1938: F. Rose boiling his washing in
a four gallon kerosene tin. |
| PIC 3404/22 |
July 1938: Police station with Mrs.
Pryor. Note slabs of coral rock to anchor tent walls against wind. On the
shores of Port Langdon. |
| PIC 3404/23 |
September 1938: Constable Pryors
notice on boundary of Aboriginal reserve. Port Langdon beach. |
| PIC 3404/24 |
September 1938: Notice painted by Frank
Maynard and F. Rose on reverse side of constable Pryors notice. Port
Langdon shore end of ridge of sandhills in background. |
| PIC 3404/25 |
September 1938; Labourer at Groote
Eylandt with "bulls breakfast" straw hat. |
| PIC 3404/26 |
September 1938: Labourer at Groote
Eylandt drinking from a canvas water-bag. Wearing a battered felt hat. |
| PIC 3404/27 |
September 1938: Labourer at Groote
Eylandt with battered felt hat and fly net. |
| PIC 3404/28 |
July 1938: photograph taken from the top
of the Shell tank in a SSE direction towards Little Lagoon showing:
- Pipeline leading from the Shell tank. The pipeline was not yet
mounted on concrete stumps
- Sandhills between Little Lagoon and Gulf of Capenteria
- Engine House, construction completed
- Storehouse, construction completed
- Carpenters workshop
- Boatshed, construction completed
- Concrete stumps of Control Building in course of
construction
- Launch CA1 at buoy
|
| PIC 3404/29 |
July 1938: Photograph taken from the base
of the Shell tank in a SSE direction. Engine house and boatshed visible. On the
left of the picture are the concrete stumps to carry the pipeline from the
Shell tank. The pipeline itself can be seen to the right of the stumps. |
| PIC 3404/30 |
November 1938: The meteorological
enclosure. Cumulonimbus cloud with rain falling over the centre of the island.
Edge of Control Building on extreme left. View SSW across Little Lagoon. |
| PIC 3404/31 |
November 1938: Control Building with
meteorological office on the left showing the Dines anemometer mast.
Little Lagoon in background. |
| PIC 3404/32 |
October 1938: Barracks taken from the
jetty. Pipeline concrete stumps shown in foreground. |
| PIC 3404/33 |
October 1938: Control Building (left) and
Barracks (right) from the jetty. Behind the Barracks can be seen the store and
the engine house. Between the Barracks and Control Building can be seen the
Buick truck and the wind sock. |
| PIC 3404/34 |
October 1938: Shelves in storehouse. |
| PIC 3404/35 |
November 1938: Interior of Mess Room in
Barracks. Swing doors leading into mens sleeping quarters. Mens
dining table to right. Library books on small table. |
| PIC 3404/36 |
July 1938: Shell tank looking SSE. |
| PIC 3404/37 |
August 1938: Shell tank in course of
being painted. Looking SE. To the right can be seen the Control Building in
course of construction. Between the tank and Control Building is the Shell
storehouse. |
| PIC 3404/38 |
25.10.1938: Bill Driver planting out
lantana slips. |
| PIC 3404/39 |
July 1938: Sheep on the base. |
| PIC 3404/40 |
14.9.1938: Making the roadway in from of
the Store and Engine House. |
| PIC 3404/41 |
25.10.1938: Tassie Elmer
working on the well. |
| PIC 3404/42 |
25.10.1938: Tassie" Elmer working
on the well and swinging a 10 lb hammer. |
| PIC 3404/43 |
November 1938: Baxter-Tyrie playing the
physician on the steps of the Control Building. |
| PIC 3404/44 |
December 1938: Lowther hoisting the CAB
flag on the flag mast outside the Control Building. |
| PIC 3404/45 |
29.9.1938: Frank Maynard using
meteorological theodolite to graduate Direction Finding station. |
| PIC 3404/46 |
2.10.1938: Lou Kohler cutting Frank
Maynards hair. |
| PIC 3404/47 |
August 1938: Episode of retrieving the
Shell flattie sunk at mooring buoy. The policeman Pryor (with light
shorts and hat). Behind him Henry Lucas. The CA1 is in the foreground. Little
Lagoon |
| PIC 3404/48 |
August 1938: Episode of retrieving the
Shell flattie sunk at mooring buoy. Percy Stamp and Hughie Polden.
The Renown and the CA1, Little Lagoon. |
| PIC 3404/49 |
August 1938: Episode of retrieving the
Shell flattie sunk at mooring buoy. Left to right: Hughie Polden,
the CA1 coxswain and Henry Lucas. The CA1 and the Renown on little
Lagoon. |
| PIC 3404/50 |
September 1938: Episode of retrieving the
anchor of the launch Renown. Police boys Mini-Mini and
Bosun in the dinghy CA41 being towed by the CA1 prior to diving for
the anchor. Little Lagoon. |
| PIC 3404/51 |
September 1938: Episode of retrieving the
anchor of the launch Renown. Police boy Mini-Mini about
to dive for the anchor. 213 flies can be counted on Mini-Minis body.
Little Lagoon. |
| PIC 3404/52 |
September 1938: Episode of retrieving the
anchor of the launch Renown. Constable Pryor and the police
boys Mini-Mini and Bosun with the anchor. Little
Lagoon. |
| PIC 3404/53 |
September 1938: Episode of retrieving the
anchor of the launch Renown. Constable Pryor and the police
boys Mini-Mini and Bosun with the anchor on board.
Little Lagoon. |
| PIC 3404/54 |
4.10.1938: The Leisha
bringing stores in Little Lagoon. |
| PIC 3404/55 |
4.10.1938: The Leisha and the
Queen May, unloading stores Little Lagoon. |
| PIC 3404/56 |
4.10.1938: Unloading the cargo of the
Leisha onto the unfinished jetty, Little Lagoon. |
| PIC 3404/57 |
4.10.1938: Unloading the
Leisha cargo onto the unfinished jetty using the barge Queen
Mary. Little Lagoon. |
| PIC 3404/58 |
December 1938: The Oituli in
Port Langdon to meet the tanker. |
| PIC 3404/59 |
December 1938: The Oituli the
Renown and the Queen Mary unloading drums of fuel from
the tanker in Port Langdon. |
| PIC 3404/60 |
December 1938: The Shell
flattie, the Renown and the Queen Mary
unloading the tanker in Port Langdon. |
| PIC 3404/61 |
December 1938: The Queen Mary
unloading drums of fuel from the tanker in Port Langdon. |
| PIC 3404/62 |
December 1938: The Queen Mary
unloading drums of Shell fuel from the tanker in Port Langdon. The
flattie is alongside the Queen Mary. |
| PIC 3404/63 |
December 1938: Percy Stamp unloading
drums of fuel from the Queen Mary, Port Langdon. |
| PIC 3404/64 |
July 1938: Roy Atkinson and Noel Withell
in front of the police station on Port Langdon beach. |
| PIC 3404/65 |
July 1938: F. Rose complete with fly net
on the ridge of sandhills to the north east of the base marking the boundary of
the Aboriginal reserve. |
| PIC 3404/66 |
October 1938: Hughie Polden in front of
his tent. |
| PIC 3404/67 |
November 1938: On the steps of the
Control Building. Front row (left to right): William Driver, Baxter Tyrie,
Harold Watson.
Back row (left to right): Reg Holt, F. Rose. |
| PIC 3404/68 |
November 1938: On the steps of the
Control Building. Front row (left to right): William Driver, Baxter Tyrie,
Harold Watson.
Back row (left to right): Reg Holt, F. Rose. |
| PIC 3404/69 |
October 1938: Coxswain Withell
photographed by pandanus screw palm near Control Building. Compare photograph
31. |
| PIC 3404/70 |
October 1938: OReilly in Hughie
Poldens tent. |
| PIC 3404/71 |
4.11.1938: Reg Holt. |
| PIC 3404/72 |
October 1938: Henry Lucas of Shell
standing on jetty holding a shot stingray. |
| PIC 3404/73 |
19.10.1938: One of the Shell workmen with
a shovel nose shark hanging from the jetty. |
| PIC 3404/74 |
5.11.1938: Henry Lucas standing on jetty
with head of shovel nose shark thrown up on Little Lagoon beach. |
| PIC 3404/75 |
July 1938: Aborigines on board the
Holly. |
| PIC 3404/76 |
July 1938: Three half-caste girls and
three small Aboriginal girls. Constance the schoolmistress is to the right of
the photo. Compare photograph 88. |
| PIC 3404/77 |
July 1938: One of the three little
aboriginal girls running. |
| PIC 3404/78 |
July 1938: Missionary P. Taylor, his
sister Elizabeth Taylor and Fred Gray at Fred Grays settlement. Note the
house is not yet roofed. |
| PIC 3404/79 |
July 1938: Fred Gray with missionary P.
Taylor at Fred Frays settlement. |
| PIC 3404/80 |
August 19338: Edith Linde just returning
from a swim carrying a whisk to keep the flies away. |
| PIC 3404/81 |
May 1941: Edith Rose (nee Linde) in front
of Fred Grays house. Note the way the paperbark on the roof is anchored.
Compare photograph 83. |
| PIC 3404/82 |
July 1938: Fred Grays house in
course of construction with only a tarpaulin roof. |
| PIC 3404/83 |
August 1938: Edith Linde with Fred
Grays bitch Bunty in front of Fed Grays house (now
roofed). Note the way the paperbark on the roof is anchored. Compare photograph
81. |
| PIC 3404/84 |
October 1938: Fred Gray in Hughie
Poldens tent. |
| PIC 3404/85 |
August 1938: Mr. Gray with a pet flying
squirrel on a paperbark tree in front of his house. |
| PIC 3404/86 |
August 1938: aborigines bringing in bags
of soil from the billabong for the garden in front of Fred Grays house.
Jim, employee of F. Gray is to right. Fred, the half-caste, wearing shorts is
in the middle of the photograph. Just by the large paperbark tree to the right
of the photograph was the well. From it water was pumped for the garden with a
brass hand-operated divers pump. |
| PIC 3404/87 |
August 1938: Barachin showing Mr. Gray
how to make fire. |
| PIC 3404/88 |
July 1938: Narachin, Fred Grays
cookboy at the back of his house, at that time in course of construction with
only a tarpaulin roof. |
| PIC 3404/89 |
August 1938: Bungara, Narachins
wife, heavily pregnant. |
| PIC 3404/90 |
July 1938: Nargwarra with a
meteorological balloon at Fred Grays homestead. |
| PIC 3404/91 |
July 1938: Jineerni with a meteorological
balloon at Fred Grays homestead. |
| PIC 3404/92 |
August 1938: Kulpejer, Mr Grays
chief Aboriginal garden-assistant, with the billabong as background. |
| PIC 3404/93 |
July 1938: Kulpejer (left) with
Mandewarra (right) in front of Mr. Grays house, with only a tarpaulin
roof. |
| PIC 3404/94 |
August 1938: Group of huts for Aboriginal
married couples in an endeavour to break them of their nomadic habits and to
make them sedentary. |
| PIC 3404/95 |
August 1938: Hand stencil on one of the
inside stringy bark wall of one of the huts illustrated in photograph 94. |
| PIC 3404/96 |
August 1938: Fred Gray in the area being
cleared for gardens. |
| PIC 3404/97 |
August 1938: Agriculture at Fred
Grays settlement. Clearing the land. |
| PIC 3404/98 |
August 1938: Agriculture at Fred
Grays settlement. Clearing the land. Jim, employee of Mr. Gray and
half-caste, Harry (in trousers) in picture. |
| PIC 3404/99 |
August 1938: Agriculture at Fred
Grays settlement. Clearing the land and burning off. Jim, employee of Mr.
Gray and half-caste, Fred (with shorts) are in the picture. |
| PIC 3404/100 |
August 1938: Agriculture at Fred
Grays settlement. Two workers. |
| PIC 3404/101 |
December 1938: Kulpejer, Mr. Grays
chief Aboriginal garden-assistant with a crop of casava. Agriculture at Fred
Grays settlement. |
| PIC 3404/102 |
25.12.1938: Going over to Fred
Grays settlement on the launch Renown. Percy Stamp with
OReilly. |
| PIC 3404/103 |
25.12.1938: Going over to Fred
Grays settlement on the launch Renown. Hughie Polden. |
| PIC 3404/104 |
25.12.1938: Christmas dinner at Fred
Grays settlement. Percy Stamp, OReilly, Hughie Polden and Fred
Gray. |
| PIC 3404/105 |
25.12.1938: Christmas Day at Fred
Grays settlement. Percy Stamp, Hughie Polden, OReilly and Fred Gray
outside Fred Grays house. |
| PIC 3404/106 |
25.12.1938: Hughie Polden, Fred Gray,
Percy Stamp and OReilly at Fred Grays settlement with Aborigines
after dinner. |
| PIC 3404/107 |
25.12.1938: Fred Gray at pump at
billabong. |
| PIC 3404/108 |
August 1938: Aboriginal women and
children in bush. Photographed by Edith Linde near Fred Grays
settlement. |
| PIC 3404/109 |
8.11.1938: Five Aboriginal lads on sand
ridge near Laycock Hill. |
| PIC 3404/110 |
8.11.1938: Five Aboriginal lads with Fred
Gray on sand ridge near Laycock Hill. |
| PIC 3404/111 |
8.11.1938: Five Aboriginal lads on sand
ridge near Laycock Hill. |
| PIC 3404/112 |
August 1938: Aborigines at Fred
Grays settlement. Taken by Edith Linde. Note: woomeras but no spears,
which as a precaution were taken from the Aborigines while they were at the
settlement. |
| PIC 3404/113 |
31.9.1938: From right to left: Moata,
Police boy Bosun and a third Aborigine. The other old
man mentioned on p. 207 is not in the photograph. The dug-out canoe apparently
is the same as that illustrated in photograph 114. |
| PIC 3404/114 |
20.10.1938: Nartingar and another
Aborigine with firewood for Interior camp kitchen. These were not the police
boys as stated on p.238. Sand spit in background. |
| PIC 3404/115 |
20.10.1938: Nartingar on the spit near
the base when he with another Aborigine brought over a load of firewood for the
Interior camp kitchen. |
| PIC 3404/116 |
20.10.1938: an Aborigine who with
Nartingar brought over a load of firewood to the base. |
| PIC 3404/117 |
3.11.1938: Nartingar on the
sandspit. |
| PIC 3404/118 |
3.11.1938: Nartingar smoking a Malay-type
pipe. Sandspit. |
| PIC 3404/119 |
3.11.1938: Nartingar drawing water from a
hole dug just above high water mark. Sandspit. |
| PIC 3404/120 |
3.11.1938: Naringar drinking from a
bailer shell. Jetty is in the background and Laycock Hill is just visible under
his right arm. Photograph taken in a north east direction from sandspit towards
Little Lagoon. |
| PIC 3404/121 |
3.11.1938: Drinking from a bailer
shell. |
| PIC 3404/122 |
November 1938: Mini-Mini spearing fish in
Little Lagoon near to Fred Grays settlement. |