Photographs of New Guinea from the Alice Innes papers, ca. 1919-1940

PXE 1066
NCY 3/616-623

fonds

ca. 1919-1940

Graphic Materials, Photographs

100775

8 negatives - film, black & white - 35 mm, in aperture cards
2 albums (121 photographs) - gelatin silver - 18.5 x 29 cm-16 x 22 cm
14 photographic prints (postcards) - 9 x 14 cm or smaller
94 photographs - (some mounted on card) - 11 x 16 cm or smaller
20 photographs - 18 x 26 cm. or smaller

Mrs Alice W. Innes lived in New Guinea before World War II

Contains views of New Guinea, including Salamaua, Rabaul & Misima Island, and scenes of indigenous peoples and European pioneers before World War II

Includes views of "Izzydizzi"[?], and airfield, Wau, New Guinea; Frank Drayton plane crash, [1932]; salvage of a New Guinea Airways wreck, 1935; mail planes 1940; Rabaul earthquake and volcano, 14 May 1937

Forms part of MLMSS 1408 (the Alice Allen Innes papers relating to New Guinea, 1911-1967, and scrapbooks, 1930?-1973)

Original nitrate negatives destroyed after copying

Access via appointment - Applies to NCY 3/616-623

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Available online - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2007/D00007/mss1408_Innes.pdf

20 photographs in PXE 1066 were previously located at Pic.Acc.3507, and were labelled as "Photographs donated by Mrs Alice Allen Innes from album owned by Mrs Innes from MLMSS 1408". These have been transferred to PXE 1066 together with albums and photographs from Pic.Acc.1053.

Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.1053 and Pic.Acc.3507 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012

Original item no.: ON 91

Most photoprints are titled and dated