Wilcannia, 1935-1937 / photographed by Rev. Edward ("Ted") Alexander Roberts
Wilcannia, 1935-1937 / photographed by Rev. Edward ("Ted") Alexander Roberts
Wilcannia, 1935-1937 / photographed by Rev. Edward ("Ted") Alexander Roberts
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1935-1937
Call Numbers
SLIDES 183
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
168 slides (3 boxes) - 8.2 x 8.2 cm - glass, including 12 Dufay colour
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
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Physical Access Conditions
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Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
1 Wilcannia
2 Bridge cottage
3 Wilcannia
4 Wilcannia park
5 PO Wilcannia
6 Bridge cottage & Wilcannia bridge (Dufaycolour)
7 Bridge cottage & Chevrolet ute (Dufaycolour)
8 Donkeys with bridge cottage in background
9 River Darling from air
10 River Darling from air
10p Wilcannia bridge - sheep crossing
11 Irrigation<...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Wilcannia, 1935-1937 / photographed by Rev. Edward ("Ted") Alexander Roberts
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 957930...
Date note
Number 65. Pooncarie Sunday School : the children stand in front of Holland's Talkies posters advertising the film "Millions in the air" for Tuesday May 4, which gives a date of 1937
Alphanumeric designations
Contents list number added to the top right hand corner of the glass slide; most slides also have Roberts own number on the top right which was not used to arrange the collection
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by John Roberts and Brian Roberts,
Exhibited in
- Shot : 400 photographs, 200 photographers, 3 centuries
State Library of New South Wales (October 2023 - October 2024)
Administrative / Biographical history
Edward ("Ted") Alexander Roberts was born in Arncliffe in 1907. He completed training to be a Methodist minister in 1935 and his first posting was to Wilcannia where he spent about two years. He died in 1974 having spent the whole of the intervening period as a minister in various parts of (mostly country) NSW and Darwin.
He left a collection of...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SLIDES 183
Record Identifier
nZNvLD6n
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nZNvLD6n
Other Identifiers
Reference code
937270
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