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Title
File 21: Walkabout magazine : Victorian published photographs [native fauna, Port Phillip Bay, livestock, water, Puffing Billy, Hepburn, wildflowers, bushfire, chicken farms, electricity]
Call number
PXA 907/Box 53
Level of description
file
Date

1942-1969
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
412472
Physical Description
51 photographs - 30 x 24 cm or smaller
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Crockett bat plantation near Hepburn for many years provided Australia and most of the world with willow for cricket bats. The plantation had about 5000 trees (1963) which grew from one small cutting sent from England by captain Archie McLaren to umpire Bob Crockett.
Scope and Content
Numbers in brackets = original Walkabout negative numbers

NATIVE WILDLIFE

1. Kangaroos [box], Anglesea Golf Course, Dec 1963, published Walkabout Sept 1969 / L.Nelson (2224)
2. Bearded dragon (Amphibolurus barbatus), published Walkabout Oct 1949 / R.Bean (G.3830)
3. Brown snake (Textilis), published Walkabout Jan 1949 / D.Fleay (3938)
4. Goanna, Sir Colin Mackenzie Sanctuary, published Walkabout Sept 1942 / (P.4340)
5. Native cat and possum, [cat only] published Walkabout Dec 1943 / (P.5763)
6-7. Goanna, Sir Colin Mackenzie Sanctuary, published Walkabout Sept 1945 & Oct 1949 / (P.5773 P.5774)
8. Bearded dragon, Sir Colin Mackenzie Sanctuary, published Walkabout Jan 1945 / (P.5778)
9. Kangaroo, Sir Colin Mackenzie Sanctuary, published Walkabout July 1943 / (P.5782)
10. Carpet snake, Sir Colin Mackenzie Sanctuary, published Walkabout Sept 1958 / (P.5783)
11. Platypus, published Walkabout (?), n.d. / (P.5971)
12-13. Emu and [8] chicks, Sir Colin Mackenzie Sanctuary, published Walkabout Aug 1942 & July 1952 / (P.6417 P.6422)
14. Kangaroo & "joey", Sir Colin Mackenzie Sanctuary, published Walkabout Aug 1951 / (P.6424)
15. Platypus [feeding], published Walkabout May 1960 / N.Town

PORT PHILLIP BAY

16. [Steam paddle-wheeler] Weeroona, Port Phillip Bay, published Walkabout Oct 1962 / Herald-Sun
17. [Group of young men on the open stern of] Weeroona leaving portsea jetty [for] Queenscliff, published Walkabout Oct 1962 / G.D. Carson
18. [Young swimmers], Brighton Beach, published Walkabout May 1963 / R.Middenway
19. [Boy with sailboat], published Walkabout May 1963 / B.McArdle (431/2)
20. Queenscliff Fort [and lighthouse], published Walkabout Oct 1962 / B.McArdle (385/6)
21. St. George's Church, Queenscliff, published Walkabout Oct 1962 / B.McArdle

LIVESTOCK

22. [Mob of] cattle [in the river] near Little Snake Island, published Walkabout Sept 1948 / R.Bean (G.2610)
23. Cattle leaving the mainland for Snake Island, published Walkabout Sept 1948 / R.Bean (G.2611)
24. "The Pilot" (Roy James), published Walkabout Sept 1948 / (G.2612)
25. Rounding up a stray, cattle mustering, Dargo High Plains, published July 1943 / (5398)
26. Monument [on the grave of] Mrs John Forlonge, [who imported the first fine wool sheep to Victoria, 1835], Seven Creeks property, Euroa, published Dec 1951 / J.Bechervaise (7857)
27. Flagged court[yard] of Seven Creeks station [homestead], home of Mr & Mrs Ian Currie, outside Euroa, published Dec 1951 / J.Bechervaise (7858)
28. Lake, Seven Creeks [property], Euroa, published Dec 1951 / J.Bechervaise (7859)

WATER, RIVERS AND DAMS

29. Omeo highway and river, [near] Mitta Mitta, published Oct 1949 / R.Johnson (G.3846)
30-31. Needle valve half open, Hume Dam, published Sept 1947 & Jan 1950 / R.Bean (G.2116 G.2118)
32. Soil erosion, Towong Hill Station, published Jan 1952 / R.Bean (G.2144)
33. Looking up the Kiewa Valley across the township of Bogong towards the High Plains [snow covered], published May 1949 / P.Payens (G.2569)
34. Spillway and outlet [needle] valves, Hume Reservoir, published Jan 1960 / (B.1013 5267)

PUFFING BILLY

35-37. Puffing Billy, NA class steam engine built at Newport, hauls a mixed train [on] journeys to Gembrook, Whitfield, Valhalla ... , published W Jan 1963 / Victorian Railways (M.1685 M.1687 M.1690)

HEPBURN

38. Hepburn Springs Progress Association [with mineral spring drinking fountain], published Mar [no year given]
39. Dormant volcano Mount Franklin, Hepburn and district, published Mar 1963
40. Crockett bat willow plantation near Hepburn, published Mar 1963

WILDFLOWERS

41. [Wild]flowers, Wilsons Promontory, published May 1963
42. Wildflowers, Bogong High Plains, published May 1963
43. Tea-tree and native fuschia, Great Ocean Road, published May 1963
44. Casuarina, Great Ocean Road, published May 1963

BUSHFIRE

45. Bushfire and fire fighters, Panton Hills, published Sun, 17 Jan 1962 & W May 1965 / Geoff Bull
46. Firemen fight to stop bushfire near Home for the Aged, Warrigal Road, Cheltenham, published Sun 27 Apr 1962 & W May 1965 /
47. [Silhouette scene of windmill, tanks and dead trees], Lakes Entrance, published W Dec 1963 / H.Gritscher

CHICKEN FARMS

48-49. Carter Bros. poultry farm, Werribee, published W July 1943 / (6154 C.1255, 6155 C.1257)
50. Eggatron Poultry Research high egg yield experiment [battery hens], Werribee, published W Jan 1963 / R.Dunstan

ELECTRICITY

51. Switchyard, Hazelwood Power Station, published W June 1968
Copying Conditions
Copyright restrictions may apply:
Copyright holder:: Tourism Australia
Rights and Restrictions Information:: On behalf of Tourism Australia, the State Library of New South Wales is authorised to approve reproduction and use of all images in this collection, for publication and broadcast (all media), without further consultation.
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Tourism Australia
Creator/Author/Artist
Bean, R.
Bechervaise, J.
Bull, Geoff
Carson, George D.
Dunstan, Roy
Fleay, D.
Gritscher, Helmut
Herald & Weekly Times Ltd.
Johnson, R.
McArdle, Brian
Middenway, R.
Nelson, Lance
Payens, P. V.
Town, Neil
Victorian Railways
Name
Currie family
Forlonge family
Hepburn Springs Progress Association
James, Roy
Puffing Billy (train)
Walkabout (periodical)
Weeroona (paddle steamer)
Subject
Courtyards.
Adult Males
Platypus--Photographs.
Topic
beaches
bearded dragons
brown snakes
bushfires
cattle
churches
dams & reservoirs
fortifications
goannas
historic buildings
kangaroos
lighthouses
locomotives (Vic, class NA)
monuments & memorials
native cats
paddle steamers
poultry farms
power stations
sheep stations
snakes
steam trains
sterns
valleys
volcanoes
wild flowers
Place
Bogong High Plains (Vic.)
Brighton (Vic.)
Euroa (Vic.)
Franklin, Mount (Vic.)
Hume Reservoir (Murray River, N.S.W.-Vic.)
Kiewa Valley (Vic.)
Port Phillip Bay (Vic.)
Portsea (Vic.)
Queenscliff (Vic.)
Seven Creeks Station (Euroa, Vic.)
St. George's Church (Queenscliff, Vic.)
Towong Hill (Towong, Vic.)
Werribee (Vic.)
Wilsons Promontory (Vic.)
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