937270
- TitleWilcannia, 1935-1937 / photographed by Rev. Edward ("Ted") Alexander Roberts
- Creator
- Call numberSLIDES 183
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
1935-1937 - Type of material
- Reference code937270
- Issue CopyDigitised
- Physical Description168 slides (3 boxes) - glass, including 12 Dufay colour - 8.2 x 8.2 cm
- 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 glass slides and an album of prints from his time in Wilcannia. There is some overlap between the slides and the prints. The slides are mostly black and white, with a few coloured, and the prints are all black and white. There are a few slides of maps, illustrated religious sayings, a hymn by George Ellis Aickin, a swagman's poem by "Jump Off Joe" Simons and a "Finis" slide which were used as the introduction to talks. This is why the original numbering does not coincide with the digitised numbering.
The disc contains digital copies of the slides and prints, with the exception of a few which are of poor quality. They have been cropped to 5" x 7". The prints can be identified by the letter "p" after the number. Some of the slides have captions and they are on the digital copies in upper case. Where possible, further descriptive captions have been added and they are in lower case. A separate list of captions on the disc, was copied to become the basis of the Contents list. The Library is going to photograph all the glass slides; so the disc supplied will not be not loaded to the Library Catalog.
The photos are of a wide geographical area centred on Wilcannia. The district covered by the Wilcannia church, the Far West Mission, is shown on the digitised map. Also attached is a current map on which grazing properties mentioned in the photo captions are circled. These are Yantara O/S, Salisbury Downs, Bootra, Wonga Lilli, Black Gate, Tintinallogy, Mount Manara, Baden Park and Marfield.
Reference:
Library correspondence file - Scope and Content1 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
12 SS picnic Wowser Bend ?
13 SS picnic Wowser Bend
14 Launch on Darling
15 Warwick’s bend
15p Darling River
16 Darling River just above Wilcannia bridge (Dufaycolour)
16p Darling River
17 Murray cod
18 Cattle crossing bridge - Wilcannia
19 Jack the Swede
20 Charlie Sue
21 Cobar mail
23 Sydney 'plane & Skeet (Alan Roberts at right)
24 Adelaide Airways 'plane
25 Plane & patient 1935 (E A Roberts at left)
27 Chevrolet truck
28 Snooks
29 Cobar road after rain
30 Cobar road
31 First 'plane Wilcannia aerodrome 1935
32 Official function first air service
33 Sydney airmail first air service
34 Plane Gannet (Dufaycolour)
35 J Parker, Dr Cole, self (E A Roberts)
35p [Tent, fire and camp]
36 Small’s Gannet
37 Cobar road
38 Cobar road
39 Cobar Road
40 Occidental mine Cobar
41 Occidental mine Cobar
43 “Mount Manara”
44 “Mount Manara”
45 Camping out
46 “Marfield” country
47 Emus on Marfield
48 Hut “Marfield” Station
49 Road through The Mulgas
51 Creek Menindee road
52 Menindee road
53 Menindee road
54 Menindee Bridge (32 class and goods train)
55p [Plain]
56 Menindee Empire Day 1936
57 “Black Gate”
58 “Black Gate”
59 At “Black Gate”
60 Jack Galloway & Lizzie
61 Lunatic Bend
62 Lunatic Bend
63 [Road]
64 Road near Pooncarie
65 Pooncarie Sunday School
66 Camel – Pooncarie
67 Two bonnie Australians
68 Children of the outback
69 The little rebel – Beth
70p [Weatherboard church]
71 Darling River & barge
71p Chevrolet truck
72 Ramp Tilpa road
73 Wawick’s ramp
74 Musterer’s camp – “Bootra”
75 “Bootra” 1935
75p Paddle steamer Oscar W at Wilcannia
76 “Salisbury Downs”
77 “Salisbury Downs”
78 On “Salisbury Downs”
79 On “Salisbury Downs”
80 Bogged – “Salisbury Downs”
81 Stanford – “Yantera”
82 Off for the mail – “Yantera”
83 Horses digging (or cleaning) a dam
84 Tibooburra
84p First air service
85 Gold sluice – Tibooburra
86 Tibooburra
88 “Yalpunga”
89 ?
90 Wilcannia bridge (Dufaycolour)
91 Wilcannia bridge (Dufaycolour)
91p Barge on Darling at Wilcannia
92 Barge on Darling, 1936
92p [Sheep in the race]
94 River boat – Wilcannia (Oscar W now at Goolwa)
94p [House]
95 River boat – Wilcannia (Oscar W)
96 Boat unloading (Oscar W & barge Culnine)
97 Boat at Wilcannia (Oscar W & barge Culnine)
99 Fred Smith & self [sculling] (E A Roberts centre)
100 River boat at Wilcannia (Oscar W & barge Culnine)
100p Wilcannia bridge – horses crossing
102 River boat unloading
102p [House]
103 Wool for the boat
104 Wool on boat – barge Culnine
104p [Main street]
105 Ghan & lead camel Wilcannia Bridge
105p [Brick church and car]
106 Camels crossing Wilcannia Bridge
106p First ‘plane Wilcannia aerodrome 1935
107 Camel team
108 Camel team
109p First ‘plane Wilcannia aerodrome 1935
111 Bunker Creek
112 Cane Grass swamp near “Wongalilly”
113 “Wongalilly”
115 “Wongalilly”
115p Camping in Chevrolet truck
116 Wanaaring
117 Tongo Creek
119 Trailer - Pooncarie
120 Marking – “Baden Park”
121 “Tintinollegy” 1890 flood mark
122 [Plain]
123 Firewood – “Murtee”
124 Tank erection – “Murtee”
125 Fresh beef – “Murtee”
126 Sheep watering – “Murtee”
127 Sheep – “Murtee”
128 Sheep – “Murtee”
129 Sheep – “Murtee”
130 Sheep – “Murtee”
131 Branding
132 [Cattle yard]
133 [Working cattle]
134 Branding
135 Tank erection – “Murtee”
136 Car & Mrs Pope
139 [House and Aborigines] (Dufaycolour)
140 Wilcannia (?) Bank of NSW (Dufaycolour)
141 [Weatherboard Methodist church] (Dufaycolour)
142 [River, lake or flood]
143 Wilcannia (?) (Dufaycolour)
144 Wilcannia PO (Dufaycolour)
145 [Sandstone church] (Dufaycolour)
146a Oscar W
The Contents list in the digitised album is colour coded. Captions in black are from the original photos; captions in red have beed added using the best information available. - Access Conditions
Access via appointment - Copying ConditionsOut of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales - General note
VH-UTG British Klemm BK.1 Eagle II was originally imported in April 1935 for Adastra Airways of Mascot. It was sold to R.T. Vincent of Geelong in May of 1936.
VH-UTV Short S.16/1 Scion was purchased new by Adelaide Airways in 1936, which formed Australian National Airways July 1936 (although operations under that name did not commence until November 1936)
VH-UUZ Tugan LJW.7 Gannet was operated by Western and Southern Provincial Airlines Ltd of Sydney from November 1935 until it was destroyed in by fire following a crash 2 miles west of Cordeaux Dam, NSW on 19 February, 1936
VH-UVU Tugan LJW.7 Gannet delivered by Tugan Aircraft in February 1936. It was sold to W.A.S.P. Airlines March 1936
Reference:
Ed Coates' Civil Aircraft Photograph Collection. http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ (accessed September 15, 2011)
Digital order no:Album ID : 957930 - 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 - 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 - Name
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