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A summary of the fruit growing industry in Australia / Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics.

Statistical bulletin. The fruit growing industry,. Australia.

INDEX and REGISTER (1 box)
Index: 'Detailed file of all Walkabout slides, transparencies and negatives & photos'
Register (includes W series)

BLACK and WHITE NEGATIVES (12 boxes, approximately 2500 negatives) 

Nos. 1-160. Quarter plate. Sampled images include:  NSW outback; Bourke; outback scenes; country towns; hotels; residences; stations; sheep and cattle; homesteads; post offices; Charleville, south west Queensland; Mt Isa mine and miners and houses (Laurence Le Guay ca. 1947, published in Walkabout April 1947: 'Civilisation in the Spinifex The Story of Mt Isa and her Mine', by R. Emerson Curtis);  neg 123,124, 135 Qantas pilot and passenger standing next to DH86 aircraft ca. late 1930s; and passenger on stretcher being loaded onto aircraft;  neg 29  Bourke 1947 image, two men by wall with notice "Keep your feet off the walls".

Nos. 161-340

Nos. 341-500. Quarter plate. Sampled; images include: rural scenes, logging, mining, houses.

Nos. 501-683. Quarter plate. Sampled; images include: Cane, rural QLD, tropical rural scenes, towns, houses.

Nos. 685-880. Quarter plate. Sampled; images include: - rural scenes, mining, eucalypts, farms, country towns, cities, houses.

Nos. 881-1070. Quarter plate. Sampled; images include: Mining, rural and outback scenes, towns, settlements.City terrace houses.

Nos. 1071-1195. Quarter plate. Sampled; images include: outback; Aboriginal woman series; stations, camping.

Nos. 1196-1310. Quarter plate. Sampled; images include: outback landscapes, anthills, stations, neg 1230 Aboriginal getting a hair cut, neg1271 bottle tree. 

Nos. 1311-1455. Quarter plate. Sampled; images include: abattoirs, cracked mud/desert/outback landscapes, stockmen mustering, branding; Negs 1417and after possibly Roy Dunstan, good action shots.

Nos. 1456-1600. Quarter plate. Sampled; images include: rural scenes, mustering, banana plantation, country towns c.1940s, ANTA Dodge truck on tour, River Murray cliffs?, Wyndham meatworks, WA; Neg 1599 Liveringa WA; little corellas WA. Possibly series continues from previous box. 

Nos. 1602-2000. Quarter plate. Images include: WA photos - Yampi Sound/Cockatoo Is 1948 (J K Ewers);John Martins Christmas Pageant Adelaide 1957 (K P Phillips);Flinders Ranges SA (K P Phillips)1949; other miscellaneous Melbourne, Canberra, tropical houses, landscapes, scenes etc.

Nos. 2001-2171. Quarter plate. Sampled; images include: many aerial shots of Canberra c.1940s (neg no 2001 and onward);outback scenes - rivergums; country/farming scenes, farmers harvesting grapes, pressing grapes (neg 2071).

Nos. 2172-2598. Quarter plate. Sampled; images include: images of grapes, river gums, water, Melbourne, birds nest and eggs; /also contains images of Aboriginal Australians, from neg Nos. 2217-2238 

Nos. 2599-2670. Quarter plate. Sampled; images include: rural scenes, water, fauna, Perth, timber - especially Ray Bean photographs of Western Australia karri forests; includes neg 2663 and 2667  Fire lookout [on top of tree] in a jarrah forest, Pemberton, published Walkabout July 1948 (including cover shot) & Oct 1959.

Nos. 2671-2890	
 
Nos. 2822-2890. Half plate negs; sampled, images include manufacturing c.1940s - aircraft (neg 2822) manufacture, factories, metal smeltering, locomotive manufacturing (neg 2870).

Nos. 2891-2998. Sampled. Images includes more large (half plate) images of manufacturing, engine assembly lines, men working (neg 2938); also bird images.

Nos. 2999-3497	
 
Nos. 3498-3587. Images include: Marree-Birdsville Stock Route - Photos by Ray Bean. Walkabout feature article/photos (published in several issues, 1948).Quarter plate.

Nos. 3588-3724. Images include Marree-Birdsville Stock Route - Photos by Ray Bean. Walkabout feature article/photos (published in several issues, 1948).Quarter plate.

Nos. 3725-3818. Sampled; images include Kerowagi Central Highlands, PNG 1955 Photographer A. Maths;  several tree shots - by types (stringy bark, brush box, palm, cyprus, bunya bunya, macrozamia etc ); several 15x11cm negs of copies of images of Ayers Rock; 1949 images of Mt Gambier and Blue Lake, country houses and garden, suburban housing 1948 Victoria by Ray Bean.

Nos. 3821-3955. Sampled. Quarter plate and some half plate. Images include: taxidermists working in National Museum Melbourne (Oct 1949 Walkabout); Reading room of NSW Public Library and Australian Museum interiors, by Russell Roberts (ca 1945-1955); River/rural scenes by Reg Johnson 1949 (Flinders Ranges, Mitta Mitta River, Mt Buffalo National Park., Walkabout Oct 1949);Mt Kosciusko; PNG images by A Maahs; Melbourne (Flinders Stn, War Memorial) ca. 1940;Canberra diplomatic missions, residences, ca 1950; The Prime Minister’s Lodge 1950 by John O Henshaw; surf/fishing Sydney by Bev Clifford 1958. 

Nos. 3994-4280
	 
Nos. 4285-4690. Quarter plate. Flora (boab trees, eucalypts) and fauna (including 'flying kangaroo' published 1959);mining (Mt Isa); Newcastle steelworks; Aboriginals ('police boy' and camel; Wolfran mine tungsten miners);aerial views Sydney Harbour and Manly; surf lifesavers; outback scenes; tuna fishing; Perth city views; army in NT (ca.1940);Memorial stone Rev John Flynn

Nos. 4693-4949. Quarter plate. Images include: army in NT (ca.1940); surf lifesavers; Melbourne street scenes; timber industry, including Powelltown, Vic, and horse drawn timber trams; Barossa wine festival; stockmen; agricultural shows - horse jumping, wood cutting; Victoria River Downs, NT and Aboriginal stockmen, by Roy Dunstan; aerial views Sydney; views, Hobart; scenic views, Blue Mountains; Cape Barren geese.

Nos. 4950-5070. Quarter plate. Partially catalogued. Roy Dunstan Gyoja Tjungarrayi / 'One Pound Jimmy' series from 1935, by Walkabout/ANTA photographer Roy Dunstan. This series contains several images of 'One Pound Jimmy', but not the negative of the image made famous on the 1950 postage stamp and on the cover of Walkabout in Sept 1936 and again Sept 1950 (Neg number 5005). It contains the famous image (neg 5007) of 'One Pound Jimmy' used in Ansett advertising, and other advertising. Two more images from this Roy Dunstan series are kept in the State Library of Victoria Charles Weetman collection.

Nos. 5071-5338
Quarter plate. Images include: Chinese vegetable gardener; Northern Territory Aboriginal Australians - Bathurst and Melville Islands, mission, climbing palms, hunting, fishing (turtles); school children; Victoria Downs Station (Aboriginal Australians receiving rations),(Roy Dunstan photos); Australian flora and fauna; NT Aboriginals hunting (stingray, turtles etc) Grose and Quail Islands; aerial image, Mt Isa.

Nos. 5355-5506. Quarter plate. Sampled; images include: Daintree; military parade; cattle mustering / stockmen (c.1948); wood chopping and show jumping at agricultural show; koalas; four David Moore images from 1957:  neg 5458 College St Sydney; Neg 5459 Macquarie St Sydney; neg 5466 Traffic on Sydney Harbour Bridge; and neg 5467 Sydney Harbour Bridge at night; Aboriginal turtle hunter leaping from boat (neg 5483 and 5484);birds- flocks of terns and birds with nests (5495-5498); Pt Kembla blast furnace - damaged negs; Women window shopping (Sydney?c1950s) (5460, 5461)

Nos. 5508-5799. Images include: Aboriginal climbing tall tree, Malanda (5508); sugar cane; wild life; Sydney sesquicentenary parade; stockmen; kookaburras; Flexible quarter plate negs.

Nos. 5823-6274. Images include towns, rowing; skiing; sheep and cattle stations; women in a pineapple plantation (published Walkabout May 1945); white dingo Redcliffe zoo c.1940; woman with kangaroo; two women in park / botanical garden. Flexible, quarter plate negs.

Nos. 6277-6530. Images include semi trailer loaded with wool; men loading wool; school children; cattle droving NSW; buck jumping; horses; cattle; country house; man, woman and dog on beach c 1940s; Perth city; horse pulled-timber trams. Quarter plate negs

Nos. 6531-6765	 
Nos. 6766-6873	 
Nos. 6875-6942	 
Nos. 6943-7017	half plate negs
Nos. 7018-7160	half plate negs
Nos. 7161-7661	 
Nos. 7663-7851	 
Nos. 7852-7931. Includes half plate negs; aerial views of Sydney and coast
Nos. 7932-9312	 

ADDITIONAL NOTES about negative numbers 2172-2598 featuring Aboriginal Australians.
2217-2238 possibly Northern Territory / Bathurst and Tiwi Islands
2217 Aboriginal men on canoes (possibly Walkabout Jan 1941 p 27 and July 1941 (cover) 
2218 Aboriginal man leaping off canoe to spear fish (possibly photographed by Roy Dunstan)
2219 Aboriginal Girl
2220 Aboriginal man with head band (image used in article 'Aboriginal Ballet' by John K Ewers, in Walkabout December 1947 p 29 Caption says " Beeanamu.. the Wargaitj dancer, whom Shawn said was in "world" class."
2221 Aboriginal man on rock with spear, looking at water
2222 Aboriginal man with American man, also published in Walkabout December 1947 article 'Aboriginal Ballet' by John K Ewers; caption says "Shawn with Beeanamu, whom he declared would be a sensation on the stage of London or New York." Photographer not named.
2223 Aboriginal girls in a row bending over (dance)
2225, 2227,2228,2229,2230 Aboriginal men with spears, dancing – possibly Walkabout December 1947 article 'Aboriginal Ballet'  p 31
2231 Aboriginal poles (Pukumani, Tiwi Islands?)
2233 Two Aboriginal men sitting
2234 Two Aboriginal men standing, in head dress, face painted
2235  Two Aboriginal men painting (pukumani?) poles
2236,2237 Aboriginal men dancing
2238 Aboriginal man lying on ground, face painted.

COLOUR TRANSPARENCIES, slides, 35 mm (8 boxes, comprising 5 boxes 'T Series' and 3 boxes 'unsorted')
 
The colour transparencies (35mm) are held in boxes and paper packages; each package has different numbers of transparencies. The negative sleeves have more information about the photograph than the black and white negatives: often they include information about location and name of photographer and date. The transparencies contain images of the 1960s and 1970s, and include more images of city life than the black and white negatives. They contain works by some well-known photographers, such as David Moore, David Beal, Robin Smith and Jozef Vissel. For example box ON 126 T2001-2800 includes images by David Moore of a sheep station, and children on a beach, and other images by Robin Smith.

GLASS NEGATIVES (6 boxes, 345 glass negatives, various sizes)

Nos. 2059-4989. Images include: Australian fauna; aerial views Sydney; pearl industry; Melbourne city buildings / monuments; Western Australia timber industry / tree felling; Qld and NSW timber industry; New Norcia monastery WA; sheep stations; cattle mustering; Qld tropical fruit; Hume dam; other agriculture; mining – Kalgoorlie / Mt Lyell; Pt Arthur, Tas; SA orchards and vineyards; horse racing - Melbourne Cup, Oakbank, SA

Nos. 5000-7052. Images include: NT Mt Riddock Mica mine; NT outback / stations / mustering - images from 1936 'Camooweal to Alice Springs' (see also related series of images in 3498-3587, 3588-3724 and 4950-5070); sheep stations; Sydney Harbour Bridge / other Sydney scenes; Canberra buildings 1930s-40s; farms; SA fruit growing / wine industry; Brisbane; tropical QLD beaches / Heron Island; country scenes; wheat silos Darling Harbour, Sydney.


FILM STRIPS 35 mm and miscellaneous formats (chiefly colour transparencies (1 box)

PROOF SHEETS and NEGATIVES, black and white (1 box) 

BLACK and WHITE NEGATIVES and SLIDES (1 box, comprising G series, New Series and W series)

Series 02: Walkabout magazine : Index, register, negatives, colour transparencies and proof sheets, ca. 1934-1974

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