Rainbow Archives, Friends of the Earth activities, ca. 1975-1981

PXA 643

series

approximately 1975-1981

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera, Textual Records

73268

Photographs - 110 items (chiefly silver gelatin photoprints) - 8 proof sheets
folder (20 pieces)
Ephemera - 1 folder (12 pieces / printed)
Textual Records - (typescript) 1 leaf

Consists mostly of photographs covering anti-uranium demonstrations and protests across Australia, as well as images following the bombing of Hiroshima.

Box 1
1. Cyclists protest ride, 1 Aug 1975
2. Ranger Inquiry, Sydney, 22 Feb 1976 [demonstration]
3-4. Uranium demonstration, Townsville, Dec 1976
5. Melbourne demonstration, 1 April 1977
6-9. Hiroshima Day, 6 Aug 1977 [Sydney]
10. Uranium demonstration, severely damaged truck allegedly burnt out by uranium demonstrators ... at Canterbury (owned by the carriers of the yellowcake) 5 Sept 1977
11. Uranium demonstration, 8 Sept 1977
12. Melbourne [demonstration] 22 Oct 1977
13. Melbourne [demonstration] 24 Oct 1977
14-15. [Demonstration] 1 April 1978
16-17. Occupation at Torness, Scotland, Nov 1979 (for reproduction MAUM newsletter?)
18-22. Street theatre, Townsville
23. Melbourne demonstration
24. Uranium demonstration - demonstrators at Mascot on arrival of Prime Minister
25. `Little Forest' solid waste burial ground, low level
26-27. Mt. Nadi, New South Wales, rainforest
28-32. Australian Atomic Energy Commission research establishment, Lucas Heights
33-36. Friends of the Earth atom free embassy outside Australian Atomic Energy Commission
37-38. Pacific Highway near Laurieton turn-off, containers carry radioisotopes Cesium 137 for export to U.S.A., travelling north from Lucas Heights ... [police examining damaged containers] Port Macquarie News, 8 April 1981
39-74. [untitled demonstrations]
75. The underwater excavator submerging at Semaphore, S.A. The machine was required to excavate a trench on the sea bed for a sewage outfall pipeline ...
76. If you wouldn't tell Stalin don't tell anyone [sign]
77. Cover for environmental resource catalogue [bush scene]
78. Auster rookery, penquins, Sept 1978
79. Mt. Diehappy, 2500 ft.
80-89 [untitled - miscellaneous]

Box 2
90-100 [untitled - miscellaneous]
101-112. Hiroshima : at 8:15 6th August 1945 Hiroshima the city developed as military base was destroyed in a moment by the first Atomic bomb in the world. These pictures show scenes at that time [12 postcards with Japanese & English text]
113-132. All roads toward peace start from Hiroshima [20 printed images with Japanese & English text on reverse used by Friends of the Earth for display]
133-140. [untitled proofs]
141-143. [Friends of the Earth] Summer environment ride : cycles for change 1976 [1 leaf typescript]
144. [Friends of the Earth motif]
145-151. [Solar power for a brighter future ; Let whales live ; Alligator Rivers Region [map] ; Principal concentrations of the Antarctic krill (Marr 1962)]

Copyright restrictions may apply:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Transfer from the Manuscripts Section (Friends of the Earth N.S.W. : further records, 1960-1990, collected as part of the Rainbow Archives) Location number: ML MSS 4902 Add-on 1957 Mitchell Library