Australian National Travel Association photographs of young women on Palm Beach, Sydney

PXA 7770

fonds

1930s

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9680238

3 photographic prints - gelatin silver - 25 x 19 cm

The Australian National Travel Association was a partly government funded travel industry organisation which promoted domestic and international tourism to Australia. It was founded in 1929 by Sir Charles Lloyd Jones as an answer to the separate Australian state tourist bureaux. Artists including Percy Trompf, James Northfield and Gert Sellheim were commissioned to create posters and brochures, and from 1934 to 1974, ANTA released a monthly travel magazine called Walkabout. From July 1967, the functions of ANTA were taken over by the Australian Tourist Commission, which later merged with three other existing tourism organisations (the Bureau of Tourism Research; the Tourism Forecasting Council; See Australia) to become Tourism Australia.

References:
Wikipedia. "Australian National Travel Association". Accessed 2 May 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_National_Travel_Association

Wikipedia. "Tourism Australia". Accessed 2 May 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_Australia

3 gelatin silver photographic prints created for the Australian National Travel Association capturing young women posing on Palm Beach, Sydney, in the early 1930s. Barrenjoey Lighthouse is visible on the headland in photo 3.

1. "A typical Australian beach girl"
2. "A happy study on an Australian beach"
3. "On an Australian surf beach"

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

Each photographic print annotated and stamped on verso "Australian National Travel Association" with addresses in Melbourne; London; San Francisco; Wellington.