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9 film negatives of RAAF Australian soldiers in New Guinea during World War II. Men include Bob Curtis and Clem Seal

File 18: New Guinea, 1943 / photographed by Max Dupain

1. Tel el Kebir. Camp of Australian H.Q. after the evacuation of Gallipoli, Egypt
2. Royal Air Force on the Italian front, climbing over the alps
3. The capture of Jerusalem
4. The landing at ANZAC Cove, dawn, 25th April 1915

Photographs [World War 1914-18]

PXE 1247
245 photographic prints
Includes many undated portraits of Frank Browne including one by John Hearder, along with many undated family portraits, family pets and Frank Browne among dining parties at restaurants; many pictures of Australian Party rallies, some including Frank Browne addressing the audience, ca. 1955; many pictures on board the oil tanker 'Miller's Canopus'; stills from American movies of the 1920s and 1930s including, 'A Woman of Affairs', 'The Torrent', 'The Kiss', 'The Divine Women', 'A Painted Veil', 'Wild Orchids'; polaroid photographs of scenes in Hong Kong and Sydney Harbour; 36 photographs of allies in action in various theatres of conflict during World War II, including New Guinea and Syria. Most of the pictures have captions on their reverse side and were taken by the Commonwealth Department of Information - does include some World War II photographs taken by the United States Army; several pictures of cargo ships in Sydney Harbour; panorama of Bondi Beach, no date and 1 photograph of a baby, ca. 1890

3 drawings being 2 cartoons of Billy Hughes - 1 by L. F. Reynolds - and a casual sketch

1 postcard showing a male athlete, no date

ON 479
125 colour negatives featuring group portraits, pets, fishing scenes as well as some street scenes and coastal views

8 black and white negatives showing a woman departing on a train

Forms part of MLMSS 3345

Pictorial material from the Frank Browne papers, ca. 1890-1976

This pictorial material is part of the Le Courrier Australien papers, 1925-1965, papers at MLMSS 2587 ADD-ON 1851.

Section titles originally written in French and have been translated into English.

PXE 1397

Item 1 
‘Troops and Units of Free France’ 
27 black & white photographs
Photographs depict Free French Colonial Troops, Air Force, Marines, Cavalry and Cadets going into action in England, Egypt, Tobruk and Abyssinia;  Free French Cruiser and stolen German plane by Free French; Cadet Philip De Gaulle (son of the General), General Le Gentilhomme and review of the troops by General De Gaulle.

Item 2 
‘Photos of De Gaulle’
228 black & white photographs of General De Gaulle, most captioned in French or English. Contains duplicates.
Some captions on verso include: Strategy conference in North Africa President Roosevelt meets Mr Churchill; King sees United Nations Day Parade; Churchill, De Gaulle meet at Marakesh; Review and parade of troops fighting for France; General De Gaulle and M. Soustelle, Commissioner for the Center of National Information in France meeting some newly-arrived volunteers; General De Gaulle inspects French boy cadets; General De Gaulle visits Morocco; Madame Elizabeth De Gaulle; General De Gaulle decorates fighting French heroes returned from Middle East; Queen Mary visits the General in London, and so on.

Item 3 
‘British Official Photographs’
5 photographs mounted with detailed captions.
‘They fight for Free France’; ‘With the Free French Navy’; ‘French Airmen with the R.A.F. go into action’ British War Office photograph; ‘R.A.F. teaching young French men to fly’;
‘Prime Minister at Tank Demonstration’.

Item 4
‘Proofs of photographs showing General De Gaulle and his family’
105 copy prints of photos in preparation for publication, many duplicated from photographs contained in Wallet 2.

Item 5
‘Free France North Africa, Noumea’
44 photographs depicting the Free French Air Unit in Libya, General Alexander decorating Free French Officer Bir Hacheim, ‘French Legion’ German Army fighting against Russia, Radio Noumea speaker Mr Laborde, the Courrier Australien Sydney office, and so on.

Item 6
‘Insignia of the Free France Unit’ 
4 photographs of the insignia for the Free French Movement, predominately of the 35 Regiment of Artillery Division (French of Cameroun).

Item 7
‘War Photos – Bombing in France and Liberation’
99 photographs, most with English or French captions, depicting men of the Maquis occupying Oyonnax (Ain); Secretary General  of the War Commission Lieutenant-General Souques; Aerial and ground photos of R.A.F. raid on Le Havre and Renault Factory Paris when in Nazi hands;  the F.F.I. and their weapons; a French Soldier returning to his family; Parisians salute victory; liberated French civilians welcome American troops; Attack on St. Nazaire, and so on.

Item 8 
‘Photos of the Liberation of Laval, Normandy, 6 August, 1944’
35 large photographs depicting scenes of the rebirth of French town Laval, Normandy.


ON 505

Box 1
16 black & white glass plate negatives in total;
1. 12 plates depicting the ‘Sciences’
2. 3 plates depicting the ‘Resistance’

Box 2 
79 5x4” black & white negatives in total (originally housed in negative boxes)
1. 2 negatives titled ‘Sciences’
2. 7 negatives titled ‘Land and People’ and 6 titled ‘French at Home’
3. 10 negatives titled ‘Colonial’ and ‘Miscellaneous’
4. 13 negatives titled ‘Sciences: Films, Portraits and Experiments’
5. 41 negatives titled ‘Free French: Army, Navy, Air, Nursery’.

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File 18: New Guinea, 1943 / photographed by Max Dupain

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Pictorial material from the Frank Browne papers, ca. 1890-1976

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