Hermannsburg photographs 1940s-1960s | SA Museum

Hermannsburg photographs 1940s-1960s

Archive Collections / Pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht / Hermannsburg photographs 1940s-1960s

Date Range: 1940 - 1970

Collection: Pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht

Quantity: 60 Copy photo

Series Identifier: AA 662/078

This series comprises photographs taken from around 1940 to the late 1960s. It includes scenes of Hermannsburg, nearby pastoral stations, Alice Springs and places further west. It includes group photos and unposed photos. They include mission staff and people living on and off the mission.

Additional information in the form of annotation notes has been provided by Helene Burns.

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Included Items

AA 662/78/1 - Hermannsburg truck in the bush in the 1940s

AA 662/78/2 - Rev. Albrecht with unidentified man at Haasts Bluff

AA 662/78/3 - Rev. Albrecht with a group of people at Maryvale in the early 1950s

AA 662/78/4 - Rev. Albrecht with a group of people at Maryvale in the early 1950s

AA 662/78/5 - Art Latz (See AA 778) with another man eating a long string of licorice

AA 662/78/6 - Group photograph

AA 662/78/7 - Rev. Albrecht and Wilfrid Smith (Australian Aboriginal man) counting dingo scalps

AA 662/78/9 - Group of people at Napperby in the early 1960s

AA 662/78/10 - Man painting wall at Alice Springs in the late 1950s

AA 662/78/11 - Peter Bulla (Australian Aboriginal man) with unidentified visitor at Alice Springs

AA 662/78/12 - 'Sitting on the cairn on top of Ayers Rock [Uluru] holding record on Foy party visit to the Rock'

AA 662/78/13 - Sitting on top of Uluru

AA 662/78/14 - Ted Abbott (Australian Aboriginal man) with axe

AA 662/78/15 - Pastor Grosse's house Hermannsburg

AA 662/78/16 - Car parked outside Rev. Albrecht house from Bonds Central Australian tours

AA 662/78/17 - Image (photo) of a letter from Israel (Australian Aboriginal man) to Pastor Gross

AA 662/78/18 - Wilfrid Smith (Australian Aboriginal man) making a camel saddle

AA 662/78/19 - Wilfrid Smith (Australian Aboriginal man) making a camel saddle

AA 662/78/20 - Group with truck including Joyce Graetz

AA 662/78/21 - Rev. Albrecht with group of people at Henbury station including Martin (Australian Aboriginal man) to left of Albrecht), Galmaliel (Australian Aboriginal man) with hat next to Martin

AA 662/78/22 - Rev. Albrecht with group of people at Henbury station including Martin (Australian Aboriginal man) to left of Albrecht), Galmaliel (Australian Aboriginal man) with hat next to Martin

AA 662/78/23 - Rev. Albrecht with group of people at Henbury station including Martin (Australian Aboriginal man) to left of Albrecht), Galmaliel (Australian Aboriginal man) with hat next to Martin

AA 662/78/24 - Rex Battarbee (See AA 663) and Albert Namatjira (Australian Aboriginal man, See AA 229) standing by a tent in which paintings are on display

AA 662/78/25 - Group photograph

AA 662/78/26 - Albert Namatjira (Australian Aboriginal man, See AA 229) at Glen Helen

AA 662/78/27 - Mission truck with a group of people

AA 662/78/28 - Candidates for baptism at Jay Creek, prepared by Moses (Australian Aboriginal man) in the late 1940s or early 1950s

AA 662/78/29 - 'Mission truck with FW Albrecht at front on right, MM Albrecht on top of truck with hat and blanket and Eli Rubuntja (Australian Aboriginal man) Albrecht's driver'

AA 662/78/30 - Arthur Vogt screening a film beside the Hermannsburg church

AA 662/78/31 - Albrecht with confirmation class, probably 1940s

AA 662/78/32 - Group standing by the Hermannsburg church

AA 662/78/33 - Group of men in front of the church

AA 662/78/34 - Hermannsburg congregation with Mr Mattner, Petering and Rev. Albrecht seated in the late 1930s or early 1940s

AA 662/78/35 - Group arriving by truck, possibly Haasts Bluff

AA 662/78/36 - Abel (Australian Aboriginal man) instructing children outside the Hermannsburg church

AA 662/78/37 - Evening sing-a-long at Hermannsburg. Abel (Australian Aboriginal man, with white hair) at the back

AA 662/78/38 - Five pastors at Hermannsburg

AA 662/78/39 - Man at Alice Springs

AA 662/78/40 - School time at Hermannsburg during the late 1930s or early 1940s in front of the church

AA 662/78/41 - Boys at Hermannsburg

AA 662/78/42 - Mission truck at Alice Springs during the late 1940s or early 1950s with Martin in the middle

AA 662/78/43 - Children playing in the water at Jay Creek

AA 662/78/44 - Artist Otto Pareroultja (Australian Aboriginal man) 1946 holding a painting

AA 662/78/45 - Group of visitors at Hermannsburg

AA 662/78/46 - Group relaxing at a gorge

AA 662/78/47 - Car in front of Albrecht house Hermannsburg with group of people

AA 662/78/48 - Joyce Graetz, Rev. Albrecht and Abel (Australian Aboriginal man)

AA 662/78/49 - Early morning camp with MLC school girls (?Methodist Ladies College)

AA 662/78/50 - Photograph taken from Rev. Albrecht's verandah of the congregation leaving church

AA 662/78/51 - Group of girls standing in front of a building made from flattened 44 gallon drums in late 1940s or early 1950s

AA 662/78/52 - Woman in front of shelter made from beaten kerosene tins

AA 662/78/53 - Three Arrernte pastors

AA 662/78/54 - Evangelism class Hermannsburg 1964

AA 662/78/55 - Hermannsburg scene of buildings and people

AA 662/78/56 - Hermannsburg buildings

AA 662/78/57 - Hermannsburg building

AA 662/78/58 - Three men with dead game

AA 662/78/59 - Rev. Albrecht's house in Alice Springs in the 1950s.

AA 662/78/60 - Alice Springs