Kimberley Plateau
Australia lecture, part 8 of 9 sheets of slides
Date: 1958 to 1959
From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia
By: Battarbee, Reginald Ernest, 1893-1973; Hurley, James Francis, 1885-1962
Reference: PA12-8822
Description: Transparency slides of Australia selected by Mr Williams as a representative collection to be used in a series of lectures on his return to England. This sheet shows areas of Australia including Mount Conner and Ayres Rock with one image of rock paintings on Ayres Rock in Central Australia; a wallaby and an echidna; a house at No. 48 Hume Street, Sydney; Sydney Harbour Bridge; Perth from Kings Park; Alice Springs and the Macdonnell Ranges; loading iron ore at Frances Creek Iron Mine; aerial view of the camp at Mount Tom Price iron mine; the Kimberley Ranges; a gold nugget; the "golden mile" at Kalgoorlie; karri trees in South Australia; the Great Boulder Mine at Kalgoorlie; Narrows Bridge at Perth; a photo of a water colour painting by Rex Battarbee of Glen Helen, Northern Territory; photographs taken from a published work by Frank Hurley showing part of the Hamersley Range, Western Australia; a blue asbestos mine at Wittenoom, Western Australia; and a copy of a photograph of opals taken by Frank Hurley. The slides are not from Mr Williams' original numbered sequence. Arrangement: These slides were selected by Mr Williams from his original sequence to create a representative collection of Australian images which he used in illustrated lectures on his return to England. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm
Margaret Jack - Scripts
Date: [1950-1960]
From: Jack family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7028-38
Description: Scripts by Margaret Jack of her travels to Oslo, experience with the midnight sun, Stewart Island, the Kimberleys and Ayers Rock Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Margaret Jack - Scripts
Date: [1950-1960]
From: Jack family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7028-39
Description: Scripts by Margaret Jack of her travels to Australia including Darwin, Mt Isa, the Flying Doctor and Alice Springs; also script of a discussion between Henry Milo and Jack at the Flying Doctor Schoolroom of the Air, `A Look at Australia' Quantity: 1 folder(s).