• Title
  File 3: Album of official war photographs, mainly taken by Damien Parer as a member of the Film Division of the Department of Information , with some taken by the U.S. Air Forces
• Creator
  Australia. Dept. of Information
• Call number
  PXA 24
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  1940-1944
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  833337
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  67 photographs
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  All the official photographs were taken by Damien Parer for the Department of Information of the Commonwealth of Australia, in his capacity as War Correspondent. There are some taken by the American Airforce.
• Scope and Content
  Official war photographs including portaits of officers in the R.A.F, French Colonial Army, Kings Royal Rifles, Italian prisoners of war, Australian soldiers, and action at Tobruk, Bardia, New Guinea and Timor, pre-August 1943, pp. 1-36
  
  Film stills from 16 mm moving film "Assault on Salamaua' and probably Cinesound Productions 'From Greece to Salamaua', pp. 37-59 (duplicate copy at PXA 26)
  
  Portraits of Damien Parer, pp. 1, 60
  
  U.S Air Forces photographs of the action in Salamaua, Wewak and Rabaul 1943, pp. 61-67.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Finding Aids
  Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project 2008-2009
• General note
  
  Keyword subjects:
  Summers, Harold
  Hutton, Geoffray
  Young, Barry
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1058498
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Parer, Damien, 1912-1944
  
• Name
  Lavarack, John Dudley, Sir, 1885-1957
  United States. Army
  World War (1939-1945)
  Wilmot, Chester, 1911-1954
  White, Osmar, 1909-1991
  Australia. Army
  
• Subject
  Parer, Damien, 1912-1944.
  
• Topic
  portraits
  prisoners of war
  air force officers
  soldiers
  war correspondents
  aircraft
  
• Place
  New Guinea
  Timor Island (Indonesia)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE650869

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