• Title
  Australian National Travel Association photograph of Elaine de Chair teaching Graham de Chair to surf at Palm Beach, New South Wales
• Creator
  Australian National Travel Association
• Call number
  SPF/3795
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  probably February 1930
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  9681753
• Physical Description
  1 photographic print - gelatin silver - 24 x 19 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  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
• Scope and Content
  1 gelatin silver photographic print created for the Australian National Travel Association capturing Elaine de Chair teaching her brother, Lieutenant Henry Graham de Chair, to surf on Palm Beach, New South Wales, in February or March 1930. Another unidentified male surfer is shown on the right side.
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Annotated "Surfing, Australia" in pencil on verso beneath two pasted typescript captions: "These photos have been brought from Australia to Holland by the K. L. M. liner on her return flight from Melbourne ; Introduction by the Chief Pilot K.D. Parmentier." ; "What we saw of Australia ; A Story in Pictures of the limitless Resources of the Fifth Continent which is so little known to the Peoples of Europe and America , and which has come into Prominence through the London-Melbourne Air Race and has revealed itself to our eyes as a land of Health, Wealth and Happiness , offering great opportunities to many new enterprises. Australia's beauty and variety of landscape , her comfortable hotels , her excellent railways were a revelation to the many travellers who visited her during the Centenary Celebrations coming from all parts of the Globe . Boundless hospitality and greatest resourcefulness are the main characteristics of the Australian Peoples as we experienced on our flight across this vast Continent and for which we are sincerely grateful . For these reasons we are giving our fullest support to the publication of a series of excellent photographs supplied by the Australian National Travel Association . K. D. Parmentier" and "A Typical Surfing Beach, There are unlimited possibilites for bathing and surfing along the sunny shores of Australia ."
  
  Pasted label for "AG. Schostal" Austrian press agency obscuring stamp for Australian National Travel Association.
• Date note
  
  Copy: printed about 1934 from original taken in February or March 1930. Date range based on vendor information and publication of other photographs from this series in the Daily Pictorial, 1 March 1930
• Subject
  Women--Photographs.
  Men--Photographs.
  Surfing--Australia.
  Beaches--New South Wales--Sydney--Photographs.
  
• Place
  Palm Beach (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21165562

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