• Title
  [Photograph of Aboriginal camp,] Corowa, 1913
• Call number
  SPG/160
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  1913
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  1336661
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photographic print - gelatin silver - 8.70 x 13.85 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  Photograph possibly taken at Maloga Mission (later Cummeragunja) Station.
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  Photograph is of group of Aboriginal people sitting on ground in front of canvas tent. Straw boater with attached scarf atop tent. Cans in makeshift storage crate. The foot of the child second from left rests on a book, possibly a bible. Canvas, hessian and/or bark tents in the fenced paddock in background. Postcard format, on Kodak Austral postcard stock.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
• Attributions / conjectures
  Inscribed on front 'Corowa'. Inscribed on reverse 'Corowa, New South Wales, Australia. 1-4-13. Dear Cousin Minnie. This is a type of the Australian Native in this part of N.S.W. Some of them are very intelligent, but they are not at all fond of work, although I have two very pretty doyleys made by a girl in the North of Queensland. Love from Cousin Harriet.' Also inscribed separately on reverse in pencil '$145'.
• Conservation note
  Image faded.
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales--Riverina.
  Aboriginal Australians--Dwellings.
  Photography--New South Wales--20th century.
  boys
  children
  Adult Females
  Aboriginal Australians.
  
• Topic
  camps
  billies
  dogs
  boomerangs
  
• Place
  Corowa (N.S.W.)
  Riverina (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8855963

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