Ken Knox photograph albums and negatives of Sydney, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia & South Australia; together with a photograph of Ken Knox

fonds

approximately 1950s-2015, predominant 1950s-1960s

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9627631

2738 photographic prints (5 albums) - chiefly black and white, some colour - albums 25 x 39 cm
1 photographic print - colour - 20 x 31 cm
1795 negatives

Kenneth James Knox (1925-2020) was born in West Tamworth, New South Wales. He was recruited as a junior telegraphist by the Postmaster-General’s Department (PMG) and stayed in their employment for 45 years, interrupted only by his time in the Royal Australian Air Force. He joined the Air Force in 1943 and was posted as a telegraphist to an air base in Lae, Papua New Guinea. Whilst there he recorded camp life and groups of local people with his Kodak Bull’s-Eye box-type camera.

At 21 he returned to the PMG and took up a post in Sydney. For a couple of years, the PMG assigned him to rotating telegraphy stints at most major post offices in Australia, culminating in a transfer to Perth in the late 1940s.

Once there he joined the Western Australian Camera Club, of which he remained a member from 1948-1961. After this Ken continued to pursue his photography and for many years also ran his own darkroom at the family home in Manning, Perth.

References:
Library acquisition file
Goodwin, Richard. "The photographic journey of Ken J. Knox." Western Australian Camera Club.

SERIES 1:
Photograph albums of Sydney, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia and South Australia; together with a photograph of Ken Knox

SERIES 2:
Series 2: Negatives of Western Australia, Sydney and New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania

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