Winifred Owens slides and photographs

SLIDES 396

fonds

1961-1968

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9673482

83 slides - Kodachrome colour - 9 x 14 cm and smaller
4 photographic prints - black and white - 10 x 13 cm and smaller

Winifred Frances Owens was born in 1909. She won gold medals as Australia's fastest shorthand typist in 1935, 1937 and 1938, and from 29 August 1955 was the first woman to be appointed as a New South Wales Court reporter. She travelled to Papua New Guinea on multiple occasions in the course of her work. She died on 4 September 1984.

By descent from Winifred Owens to her niece, Lyn Hailstone.

SLIDES
This collection includes 83 colour slides taken by Winifred Owens of four separate trips to Papua New Guinea and the Trobiand Islands in 1961, 1966, 1967 and 1968.

1-20. April and June 1961. Includes the court house in the Rigo District and various scenes around Port Moresby including views of the suburbs of Boroko and Konedobu from Burns Peak, markets in the suburbs of Koki and Sogeri and the Papua Hotel.

1-9. October 1966. Includes locals at the markets in Sogeri, the harbour of Port Moresby, the Bomana War Cemetery and the house in which Winifred Owens stayed in Port Moresby.

1-16. February 1967. Includes schoolchildren in Banz, indigenous persons in Mount Hagen, children in the suburb of Hanuabada in Port Moresby and captures of the Lae War Cemetery.

1-38. May 1968 includes villages and indigenous persons on the Trobriand Islands, markets and a rubber plantation in Sogeri, the hotel and scenery at Rouna Falls, villages and indigenous persons in Kwikila and various scenes around Port Moresby including the Bomana War Cemetery, Ela Beach, markets in the suburb of Koki, the Papua New Guinea training centre and a museum.

PHOTOGRAPHS
4 black and white photographic prints, including two portraits, of Winifred Owens printed by The Leicagraph Co. Pty. Ltd.; Gevaert; Kodak Australia.

CLIPPING
1 newspaper clipping titled "Retirement" with a short blurb about Winifred Owens' retirement as New South Wales Court reporter.

Copyright restrictions may apply:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Photographs and clippings are stored with SLIDES 396

All slides are captioned and many are dated, though there are spelling errors of place names. One photograph (printed by The Leicagraph Co.) has a handwritten list of names on verso identifying the subjects. Legible names include "Reid . . . Muir Nelson . . . Blair McDonald . . . Miss C. Smith . . . Johns."

Date range taken from photograph captions.