Photographs of Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory, depicting Aboriginal Australians, the Christian mission and missionaries including Hubert Ernest de Mey Warren, with scenery, 1908-1933

PXE 1129

fonds

1908-1933

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs, Ephemera

908936

422 photographic prints and 44 ephemera items (postcards) - chiefly gelatin silver - various sizes
2 folders of textual material - typescript, manuscript

Collection of various photographs and photographic postcards taken on or near Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory. Some include manuscript inscriptions and notes. The collection is arranged by date and subject and includes a typescript contents list for some items in the collection. Includes scenes depicting Christian missionaries and their children, Aboriginal Australians, the environment, buildings, school classes, boats and scenes of celebrations including weddings and Christmas.

1. Assorted photographs, some with manuscript inscriptions. Individual and group portraits of Aboriginal peoples, a wedding, missionary classes, table settings and scenery. Photographic postcards including 'Cheon, Cook in "We of the Never"', Mapoon Mission, 1908 and a nun.
2. Photographic prints and photographic post cards of visits to Groote Eylandt, 1916, 1917, 1921
3. Photograph 'On board Holly' and 'Prints of 'Warren's map' made during trips', 1921
4. After Cyclone, beginning of rebuilding, 1923
5. Ship Holly leaving T.I. with 6 months stores and ladies on board, 1923
6. Along the Emerald River, ca. 1924
8. General view of Mission, 1924
9. Captain Wilkins with Betty, 1925
10. Ellie with two indigenous women holding her infants David and Betty, 1925
11. Women in bark dresses, 1925
12. Building frameworks and girls dormitory buildings, construction completed 1925, 1924-1925
13. The Emerald [River] in flood, 1925
14. Bickerton Island including groups of indigenous peoples, a cave containing Aboriginal skeleton remains and coastal scenes, ca. 1925-1927?
15. Old Paddle Wheel Bridge, 1926
16. General view of mission, trees stripped bare by a hurricane, 1926
17. Portraits: 'Timothy and Sarah and babe', 'Boys and girls groups' and 'Mrs W. Bettty and David (baby)', 'Very fat cat fish Roper River Mission', 1925
18. Erecting wireless masts, 1927
19. Mr Bill and Mrs Linda Harney leaving the station after wedding, 5 April 1927 and letter from W. E. Harvey to Mr. Warren [?]
20. General photographs of Aboriginal peoples and families in the bush and on the coast, October 1928
21. Missionaries group with Thornburgh, Thornburgh leaving, 1928
22. "Banjo" and his family, 1924-1928
23. 'Women and children rescued from the tribe of Balamumu', 1929
24. 'Peanuts and half-caste girls', June 1929
25. General view of new mission house, ca. 1929-1930
26. 'Holly redecking'
27. Girl Guides of the Groote Eylandt Mission
28. Baptism of baby Arnold Hamilton, 1931
29. Girl Guide wedding group October and November 1930, Wedding of Dorcas to James Wesley, October 1931
30. Rev. E. Wynne Evans and his grave, 1933
31. Hamilton family, 1934
32. Groote Eylandt at Christmas
33. 'Married couple's homes built by the boys themselves'
34. Groote Eylandt garden
35. Roper River and Groote Eylandt and the boat 'Holly', 1931
36. Hubert Ernest de Mey Warren, including a photograph with Mr. D. H. Fowler and Rev. A. J. Dyer
37. Scenery of Groote Eylandt
38. Aboriginal peoples on land and in boats, and a coastal scene
39. Boat 'Holly' and a fish
40. Boat 'Holly' in the Gulf of Carpentaria
41. Leprosy patients cared for at Groote Eylandt
42. Captain Wilkins and his children, ca. 1925
43. Half castes
44. Timber getting with cart and with car and sawmill boiler
45. Exploration and founding mission, prints
46. Early days, prints
47. Peace Expedition, prints
48. Mission - General people, prints

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

Keyword subject:
Groote Eylandt (Gulf of Carpentaria, N.T.)

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