• Title
  Series 02: Photographs from the further papers of Alan Anderson and the papers of Neil McDonald, ca. 1938-1943, mainly by or attributed to Damien Parer
• Call number
  PXE 1005
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  ca. 1938-1943
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  836699
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  24 photographic prints - various sizes, from 8.5 x 12 cm. to 24 x 30 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  The Mitchell Library purchased these photographs from Neil McDonald, together with the papers of Alan Anderson and some of McDonald's own papers. It is not known which photographs may have formed part of the Anderson papers in McDonald's possession and which were acquired by McDonald from other sources. Some photographs are published, with sources, in McDonald's book, Damien Parer's War (Rev. ed. South Melbourne, Vic. : Lothian, 2004)
• Scope and Content
  1. [Parer at the camera with Stan Tolhurst and George Hughes shooting This Place Australia. Caption from McDonald, N. Damien Parer's War, 2004, p.37]
  2. [Wool sale yards : early documentary still by Parer. Reprint, possibly that 'printed by Jill White' 'from a negative found at Max Dupain's studio': see McDonald, N. Damien Parer's War, 2004, p.38]
  3. [Ted Genock, Bardia, Jan 1940][inscribed and dated on verso; photographer not identified]
  4-10. Welcome to Ali Khan [Syria, 1940 / Damien Parer. Series numbered on verso 1-8; no.5 missing. Inscriptions in Parer's hand on verso. PXE 1005/4 dated and captioned in AWM Collection Database: ID No: 009366. 1940-04-30. Syria. Entering the town of Selemie, decorated for the arrival of of the Prince Ali Khan. (Negative by D. Parer). PXE 1005/10 inscribed on verso: Welcome to Ali Khan. Lady Lampson (wife of H.E. British Commissioner in Egypt) & Col. Salisbury-Jones (at that time) head of British Military Mission in Syria]
  11-15. [Officers and troops in Syria and Palestine (French, Senegalese, Algerian, Polish). Inscriptions in Parer's hand on verso]
  16. Alan Anderson [with sound equipment. Inscribed 'Alan Anderson' on verso; photographer unidentified]
  17. Williams and Anderson [on the bell tower of the Church of the Holy Nativity, Bethlehem] / picture by Hurley [inscribed on verso]
  18-20. [Series of stills of a gun crew in action on HMS Ladybird off Bardia, taken by Parer when he ran out of movie film. Caption from McDonald, N. Damien Parer's War, 2004, p.87]
  21. [Still of a sailor on HMS Ladybird. Caption from McDonald, N. Damien Parer's War, 2004, p.89]
  22. [Rhodesian officer; dated by Dept. of Information 5/2/1941 on verso]
  23. Damien Parer and George Silk [with cameras], Tobruk [August 1941. Dated and captioned in AWM Collection Database: ID No: 009499. 1941-08. TOBRUK. DAMIEN PARER AND A.G. SILK IN "HIDE OUT" ON EDGE OF TOBRUK HARBOUR WAITING FOR AIR RAID. (NEGATIVE BY G. SILK).]
  24. [Wing Commander Brian Reginald (Black Jack) Walker with troops, Port Moresby?, 1943. Identified by comparison with similar photograph in McDonald, N. Damien Parer's War, 2004, p.260]
• System of arrangement
  Approximate chronological order
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1063797
• Date note
  
  Dated from shooting of This Place Australia to Parer's time with Walker's squadron
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Parer, Damien, 1912-1944
  Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962
  
• Name
  Silk, George
  
• Subject
  War photographers--Australia.
  Photographers, Australian--20th century.
  Parer, Damien, 1912-1944.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE656829

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