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Accession Nos.: PIC 3404/1-122 AN: 21563161
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PIC 3404/1 1938: Darwin, Cavenagh street, banyan tree. Fang Chong Loong’s 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 men’s 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 men’s 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 Pryor’s 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 Pryor’s notice. Port Langdon shore end of ridge of sandhills in background.
PIC 3404/25 September 1938; Labourer at Groote Eylandt with "bull’s 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:
  1. Pipeline leading from the Shell tank. The pipeline was not yet mounted on concrete stumps
  2. Sandhills between Little Lagoon and Gulf of Capenteria
  3. Engine House, construction completed
  4. Storehouse, construction completed
  5. Carpenters’ workshop
  6. Boatshed, construction completed
  7. Concrete stumps of Control Building in course of construction
  8. 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 men’s sleeping quarters. Men’s 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 Maynard’s 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-Mini’s 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: O’Reilly in Hughie Polden’s 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 Gray’s settlement. Note the house is not yet roofed.
PIC 3404/79 July 1938: Fred Gray with missionary P. Taylor at Fred Fray’s 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 Gray’s house. Note the way the paperbark on the roof is anchored. Compare photograph 83.
PIC 3404/82 July 1938: Fred Gray’s house in course of construction with only a tarpaulin roof.
PIC 3404/83 August 1938: Edith Linde with Fred Gray’s bitch ‘Bunty’ in front of Fed Gray’s 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 Polden’s 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 Gray’s 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 diver’s pump.
PIC 3404/87 August 1938: Barachin showing Mr. Gray how to make fire.
PIC 3404/88 July 1938: Narachin, Fred Gray’s 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, Narachin’s wife, heavily pregnant.
PIC 3404/90 July 1938: Nargwarra with a meteorological balloon at Fred Gray’s homestead.
PIC 3404/91 July 1938: Jineerni with a meteorological balloon at Fred Gray’s homestead.
PIC 3404/92 August 1938: Kulpejer, Mr Gray’s chief Aboriginal garden-assistant, with the billabong as background.
PIC 3404/93 July 1938: Kulpejer (left) with Mandewarra (right) in front of Mr. Gray’s 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 Gray’s settlement. Clearing the land.
PIC 3404/98 August 1938: Agriculture at Fred Gray’s 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 Gray’s 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 Gray’s settlement. Two workers.
PIC 3404/101 December 1938: Kulpejer, Mr. Gray’s chief Aboriginal garden-assistant with a crop of casava. Agriculture at Fred Gray’s settlement.
PIC 3404/102 25.12.1938: Going over to Fred Gray’s settlement on the launch ‘Renown’. Percy Stamp with O’Reilly.
PIC 3404/103 25.12.1938: Going over to Fred Gray’s settlement on the launch ‘Renown’. Hughie Polden.
PIC 3404/104 25.12.1938: Christmas dinner at Fred Gray’s settlement. Percy Stamp, O’Reilly, Hughie Polden and Fred Gray.
PIC 3404/105 25.12.1938: Christmas Day at Fred Gray’s settlement. Percy Stamp, Hughie Polden, O’Reilly and Fred Gray outside Fred Gray’s house.
PIC 3404/106 25.12.1938: Hughie Polden, Fred Gray, Percy Stamp and O’Reilly at Fred Gray’s 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 Gray’s 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 Gray’s 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 Gray’s settlement.
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