This series consists of black and white (b/w) photographs, negatives and colour slides taken by MacDougall at Kunmunya Mission (WA), Ernabella Mission (SA) and during his employment as Native Patrol Officer (NPO) in outback South Australia and Western Australia with the Commonwealth Department of Supply. The collection also includes some MacDougall family photographs.

AA 193/2/1
This item includes photographs apparently taken at Kunmunya Mission in the 1930s, showing Walter and Gladys MacDougall, Aboriginal residents, mission buildings and landscape scenes. Twenty-six b/w prints; one duplicate; two nitrate negatives.This item also includes seven b/w photographs of a burial ceremony near Kunmunya.

AA 193/2/2
This items includes one photograph showing a European woman operating a two-way radio near the Ernabella truck, and was presumably taken at Ernabella when MacDougall was working there in the 1940s. The other photographs show Aboriginal people and landscape scenes in Central Australia, and may relate either to MacDougall's work at Ernabella or his later work at Woomera and Maralinga. Five b/w prints, 11x6cm; one duplicate.

AA 193/2/3
This item includes photographs probably taken by MacDougall during a visit to Ooldea in October 1954, when he attended the unveiling of a memorial to Daisy Bates (see AA 23) there, and then supervised the salvage of building material at Ooldea Mission which was subsequently taken to Yalata Reserve. The Ooldea Mission had closed in June 1952 and its occupants transferred to Yalata. MacDougall's report of this visit to Ooldea is included in the 'Collection of Documents relating to Aboriginals compiled for the Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in Australia' (see GRS 1278/1 at State Records of South Australia), pp. 419-420. Some information on MacDougall's trip to Ooldea is included in an article in the Adelaide Advertiser on 20 November 1954. Eleven b/w photographs, 16x16cm and eleven negatives are listed as follows:

1. Aboriginal men standing near land-rover.
   Formerly AP4150.
   
   

2. 'Yalata native at Ooldea'.
   Formerly AP4151.
   
   

3. Two Aboriginal men, standing. An article in the Adelaide Advertiser on 20 November 1954 identifies these two men as Winminja and Eudinga, from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, who had settled at Ooldea several years before.
   Formerly AP4153.
   
   

4. Aboriginal man.
   Formerly AP4154.
   
   

5. Aboriginal man, profile.
   Formerly AP4155.
   
   

6. Aboriginal woman.
   Formerly AP4156.
   
   

7. Aboriginal man, woman and child.
   Formerly AP4157.
   
   

8. Aboriginal men and women, standing.
   Formerly AP4158.
   
   

9. 'Ooldea Mission being wrecked'.
   Formerly AP4159.
   
   

10. Daisy Bates memorial at Ooldea Siding.
    Formerly AP4160.
    
    

11. Close-up view of plaque on Daisy Bates memorial at Ooldea Siding.
    Formerly AP4161.
    
    

AA 193/2/4
This item includes photographs taken by MacDougall in December 1955 showing Aboriginal people at Glen Cumming in the Rawlinson Range (WA), and rock engravings near Mt Davies, in the Tomkinson Range in north-west South Australia. Norman B Tindale (see AA 338) provides some details on these photographs in his journal Visits to Ooldea, S. Aust. to study the Aborigines by Norman B Tindale in 1934 and 1951, South Australian Museum Archives AA 338/1/13, pp. 364-7. Eight b/w contact prints; three prints, 9x6cm; nine copy negatives, 6x8cm; one duplicate; glass plate negatives; nitrate negatives. Formerly Acc. No. 617.

AA 193/2/5
This item includes the following b/w prints from Central Australia, evidently taken during MacDougall's work as NPO:

1-3. Aboriginal boys with donkeys (possibly Ernabella Mission). Three prints, 15x10cm.

4-5. European man in camp (caption on reverse reads 'Lake Wilson camp') and same white man standing by a land-rover (caption on reverse reads 'Talleringa Well area'). The photographs were probably taken by MacDougall on a patrol in July-August 1951 with Squadron Leader Garden. Two prints, 16x11cm.

6. Two Aboriginal men and one white man by a rockhole (caption on reverse reads 'Mt Harriet water hole', crossed out). Mt Harriet is about 45 km south of Amata. One Print, 16x12cm.

7. Land-rover (caption on reverse reads 'Battered but not beaten', crossed out). One Print, 16x12cm.

8. MacDougall standing next to his vehicle, with a small dog sitting on the bonnet. The caption on the reverse reads 'Before LWRE days this vehicle, dog and a rifle were his only companions on many patrols'. One Print, 16x12 cm.

9. MacDougall standing near a large tree. The caption on the reverse reads 'Burke or Wills'. One Print, 16x12cm.

10-11. One is captioned on the reverse 'Sand hill and scrub'; the other has no caption and shows an old billy by a hole in the sand. Two prints, 16x12cm.

12-13. Aboriginal rock engravings. One is captioned on the reverse 'Wild Dog Creek. Koolymilka' (Woomera Rocket Range) and the other has no caption. Two prints. 16x12cm.

14-15. MacDougall's International truck. 2 prints, 14x9cm.

16. Aboriginal woman sitting with a girl and two children. One print; 16x11cm

17. Camp scene, captioned on reverse 'WB McD & two soldiers in LRWE days'. One print, 12x12cm.

18. Three Aboriginal women in dresses, sitting in sand. One print, 15x10cm.

19. Aboriginal woman, sitting, holding infant. One print, 14x10 cm.

20. Patrol to Percival Lakes, WA, 1964. Place, Tapiri. Person, Gordon McLeay, Ngangamarta. One print, 12x9cm.

21. Patrol to Percival Lakes, WA, 1964. Gordon McLeay drinking from coolamon and Alec Oliver, driver & mechanic with WRE. Place, Yuwin. One print, 12x9cm.

22. Aboriginal waterhole (Stamped on edge 'Unclassified, 25 July 1958'). 1 Print, 11x10cm.

23. Windmill in sandhills, probably at Head of Bight (Nullarbor Plain). One print, 9x6cm.

24. Cliffs, Great Australian Bight (Nullarbor Plain). One print, 9x6cm.

25. Waterhole near Lake Woorong (south of Mabel Creek). One print, 9x6cm.

26. MacDougall's land-rover and camp. One print, 9x6cm.

27. Rock outcrop. One print, 9x6 cm

28-31. Unidentified rock art. Three prints, 11x7cm; one print, 12x9cm.

AA 192/2/6
This item includes colour slides of Aboriginal people, landscape scenes and rock art in Central Australia. One of the slides shows the large Maralinga sign near Maralinga Village. Another slide apparently shows the rock art site at Kolidjara, near Betty's Well in the Everard Range, and another slide may show the rock art at that site. Seven colour slides.

AA 193/2/7
This item includes seven personal/family history photographs, including one of MacDougall as a youth, and another of him dressed in a suit and wearing his British Empire Medal, awarded in June 1970.

This series includes references to the following regions of South Australia: North Central; North West; Nullarbor - Great Victoria Desert.

This series also includes references to: Western Australia.