This series consists of 97 black and white photographs taken by Iris Dicks at Ooldea, South Australia between 1937 and 1949. The photographs depict Aboriginal people, landscape scenes and views of Ooldea Siding and Ooldea Mission, and some of Fowlers Bay and other locations on the west coast of South Australia. These photographs are mounted on paper, with hand-writen captions, in a ring binder.

A set of copy prints is filed in a separate album labelled 'Iris Dicks Private Collection'.

The collection also includes some hand-written responses by Mrs Dicks to queries about the photographs from Philip Jones (Anthropology Division) in March 1990, and documentation relating to the Museum's acquisition of the collection. A poem written by Iris Dicks about her life at Ooldea was provided to the South Australian Museum by her daughter, Beverley Hannagan, in 2007.