The South Australian Museum's expedition to Strzelecki and Coopers Creek took place during 1916 and was aimed at gathering natural history specimens for study and display.

Expedition members Edgar Ravenswood Waite (see AA 356) and Captain Samuel Albert White (see AA 365) took a series of photographs documenting the expedition. The subjects of these photographs include birds, reptiles, insects, natural scenery as well as local inhabitants of the areas they traveled to and Australian Aboriginal people. The South Australian Museum Archive holds 209 photographs, most were taken by Waite, and the few taken by White and are labeled accordingly. The photographs original labels are also described, these are thought to correspond to a list describing each photograph, possibly for the purposes of publication or for display in an exhibition. This list however has yet to be located.