Series 01: Photographic prints of overland trip from Sydney to Roper River Mission Station, May-Oct. 1919 / probably photographed by C. E. Latham

PXA 1159

series

1919

Graphic Materials, Photographs

826022

79 photographic prints - gelatin silver - 28 x 20 cm or smaller

C.E. Latham, a Trinity Grammar school teacher, joined Rev. Warren and Mrs H. Warren on the overland trip to Roper River Mission in 1919 and probably took most of the photographs.

1. The Rev. E. A. Burgmann, later Bishop of Canberra – Goulburn, and family
2. Rev. Canon Fairbrother and family at Tamworth
3. The Roman Catholic Church and St. Joseph’s convent at Glenn Innes N.S.W.
4. Brisbane, 1919
5. Railway Station at Goomie, 1919
6. King Friday of Tanabaranie Station, N.T.
7. At Dalby
8. Man and Model T Ford at Dalby
9. Prickly pear at Dalby
10. Model T Ford bogged in sand at Eaglehawk Creek
11. Railway near Charleville
12. In trouble along the track to Charleville line
13. Muckadilla Hotel
14. A shearing shed and wool storage shed somewhere between Blackall and Longreach
15. Avon Downs cattle station homestead, 1919
16. Roy Warren talking to the storekeeper at Boulia, Western Queensland
17. At Brunette Downs Station, 1919
18. Camels, Brunette Downs station
19. The Police Station at Anthony’s Lagoon with the Ford at the rear
20. A hawker’s wagons near Cloncurry
21. Goats at Alexandria Downs, N.T.
22. Preparation of a goat at Anthony’s lagoon for the cook-house
23. Black women on territory stations
24. Black women on territory stations
25. The mailman who carried letters between Pine Creek and Camooweal in 1919
26. Termites
27. At Rankine Downs, N.T. with Model T Ford
28. Lubra and child, Alexandria Downs, N.T.
29-29a. Team of men on a track in Western Australia (2 copies)
30. The cook and cook house at Brunette Downs station
31. The plain turkey supplied food for us in Western Queensland
32. The Federal Hotel on the Western Queensland plains
33. Section of Georgina River, border of Qld. and N.T.
34. Wind and steam used for raising water from the bores of Barkly Downs
35. The border gate between Qld. and N.T.
36. Top Spring – the source of the Macarthur River
37. The camp 50 miles beyond Boorooloola
38. An unfortunate lubra from the bush camp at Boroloola with an broken arm and leg not set
39. Ka Hen, the Chinese gardener at Boraloola, N.T.
40. Vesety’s meatworks at Darwin in 1919
41. Darwin Gardens
42. Darwin Railway Station and train from Katherine
43. Booby Island in Torres Strait
44. Mr Fred Blitner of Boorooloola and his two black wives and two children
45. Pumping air into the tyres of the Model T Ford
46. A huge windmill pumping water
47-51. At Weoona Bore and various pumping stations
52-53. Staff of the Boorooloola Hotel
54-55. The Anglican church of St. Paul, Roma
56. C.E. Latham in Ford Model T with Rev. Henry who designed and built the church
57. The Sir John Forrest at Darwin jetty
58. The grave of J.W.O. Bennett and Richard Hazard
59-60. The Barkly scarp
61-63. The homestead at Eldersleigh cattle station
64. Mahony’s Imperial Hotel at Longreach
65. Longreach Railway Station
66. The Sir John Forrest
67. A pearling lugger in the Macarthur River
68. Wool teams, Western Qld.
69. Spare horses, Western Qld.
70-75. Last stages of the first overland trip, 1919 and arrival at Roper. With Mrs Warren, Miss Cross, Josie and Bill
76. Hawkesbury River
77-78. Roman Catholic Church on Macdonald River
79. Unidentified homestead

Notes on photographs available here - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2014/D31598/a2297.pdf

See MLMSS 872, Item 2, for Rev. Warren's diary of the trip.
Captions were taken from notes filed with photographs - see Contents list.