Photographs, negatives, slides, postcards, illustrations, painting, maps and film created or collected by EC Black

Archive Collections / Dr Eustace Couper Black / Series AA 31/06 / Photographs, negatives, slides, postcards, illustrations, painting, maps and film created or collected by EC Black
CONTAINS RESTRICTED MATERIAL

The following items are filed in five photograph albums plus one album of nitrate negatives:

  1. Black's work as a surveyor in the Port Lincoln district, Australia. 1903. 25 black and white (b/w) photographs, 10x7cm; 7 duplicates.

  2. Black's work as a surveyor in the Lameroo - Pinnaroo area (SA), 1904. Also includes 3 photographs (11x9 cm) of Lameroo. January 1948. 5 b/w photographs, 10x7cm; 15 b/w photos, 11x8cm; 3 duplicates.

  3. Family and holiday photographs taken at Port Elliot, Glenelg and Belair National Park (SA). 1903-5. 8 b/w photos, 10x7cm; 1 duplicate.

  4. Australian Aboriginal rock engravings at Cooyapooya (WA), taken by William Blackwood Sanders (see AA 276). August 1905. 6 b/w photographs, approx. 10x6cm; 2 duplicates.

  5. Ooldea (SA) taken by Anthony Gladstone Bolam (see AA 640). c1920. Two of these postcards show Australian Aboriginal people at Ooldea. These two cards have been annotated by Daisy May Bates (see AA 23) with the names of the Australion Aboriginal people. 3 postcards, 14x9cm.

  6. Baroota Reservoir, Telowie Gorge and Spalding (SA). April 1927. 10 b/w photographs, 11x8cm; 1 duplicate; 1 negative.

  7. Construction of the North-South Railway from Oodnadatta (SA) to Alice Springs (NT). April 1928. 16 b/w photographs, 11x8cm; 1 photograph, 13x18cm.

  8. This item is restricted. Close-up view of tribal scars on thigh of Australion Aboriginal man from The Granites, and close-up view of boomerang legs on another man at Coniston. August 1936. 2 b/w prints, 11x8cm; negatives.

  9. Black's trip to The Granites (SA) with the Board for Anthropological Research (BAR; see AA 346). August 1936. 4 b/w prints, 11x8cm; 1 duplicate; nine negatives. Also includes portrait and profile of Australian Aboriginal men, women and children taken at The Granites. The individuals shown are numbered L1-L45. 3 b/w prints, 11x8cm.

  10. BAR expedition to Nepabunna (SA) in May 1937, showing Australian Aboriginal people and mission buildings at Nepabunna, rock engraving sites at Chambers Gorge and Red Gorge (SA) and general landscape scenes. 8 b/w prints, 6x6cm; 3 duplicates; 16 b/w prints 11x8cm.

  11. This item is restricted. Ooldea Mission (SA) during BAR expedition (August 1939), including photos of Australian Aboriginal people, missionaries and buildings. 16 b/w prints, 11x8cm; 2 duplicates.

  12. Houseboat trip along Murray and Darling Rivers (SA). July 1940. 8 b/w prints, 11x8cm.

  13. Lake Albert and Lake Alexandrina, Point Malcolm and Milang (SA). December 1940-February 1941. 7 b/w prints, 11x8cm; 6 negatives.

  14. University of Adelaide footbridge, Minnipa (Eyre Peninsula) (October 1941), Norman Barnett Tindale (see AA 338), Frederick David McCarthy and Thomas Draper Campbell (see AA 52) at an Australian Aboriginal campsite at Moana (1946) and 'Aboriginal boy brought up among Europeans'. 5 b/w prints, 11x8cm.

  15. Devon Downs and Walkers Flat (SA). April 1941. 3 b/w prints, 11x8cm.

  16. Devon Downs (SA). 1943. 6 b/w prints, 11x8cm; 2 duplicates.

  17. Australian Aboriginal campsite near Moonta, Yorke Peninsula (SA). August 1943. 2 b/w prints, 11x8cm.

  18. Australian Aboriginal campsite at Clayton near Lake Alexandrina (SA). November 1943. 3 b/w prints, 11x8cm; 1 duplicate.

  19. Australian Aboriginal campsite near Kromelite (South-East), and landscape scenes at Mt Schank, Port MacDonnell and Cape Northumberland (SA). January 1944. 7 b/w prints, 11x8cm.

  20. Australian Aboriginal campsite near Broken Hill Racecourse (NSW) February 1944. 8 b/w prints, 16x10cm.

  21. Australian Aboriginal campsite at Stephens Creek (NSW), near Broken Hill. August 1944. 3 b/w prints, 11x8cm.

  22. Australian Aboriginal campsite near Nangkita on Finniss River, and landscape scenes on Finniss River (SA). November 1944-May 1945. 12 b/w prints, 11x8cm.

  23. Adelaide Railway Station. 1944-1947. 2 b/w prints, 9x6cm; 1 b/w print, 11x8cm.

  24. Australian Aboriginal campsites near Port Augusta (SA). 1943-45. 10 b/w prints, 11x8cm; 2 duplicates.

  25. Adelaide Railway Station, Islington Workshops and South Australian Railways ambulance crews. 1944-1950. 24 b/w prints, 14x14cm; 5 duplicates; 1 b/w print, 20x15cm.

  26. Australian Aboriginal campsites near South West River and Hawk's Nest on Kangaroo Island (SA) and general landscape scenes on Kangaroo Island, including Rocky River, South West River, Cape Du Couedic, Flinders Chase and Kingscote. November 1945. 25 b/w prints, 11x8cm; 5 duplicates.

  27. Australian Aboriginal campsite at Stephen Creek, near Broken Hill (NSW). November 1945. 2 b/w prints, 11x8cm.

  28. Australian Aboriginal campsites near Albemarle Station, Darling River (NSW) plus general landscape scenes. January 1946. 12 b/w prints, 11x8cm; 3 duplicates.

  29. Meadows Creek and Finniss River (SA). March 1946. 4 b/w prints, 6x4cm.

  30. Australian Aboriginal campsites in the Coorong (SA). January 1947. 3 b/w prints, 9x6cm.

  31. Australian Aboriginal campsites near Pelican Point and Tauwitchere Barrage on the Coorong (SA). February-April 1947. 6 b/w prints, 9x6cm.

  32. Spalding Cove (near Port Lincoln), Minnipa and Cummins (Eyre Peninsula). April 1947. 7 b/w prints, 9x6cm.

  33. Australian Aboriginal campsites and landscape scenes on Yandama Station (NSW). October 1947. 25 b/w prints, 11x8cm.

  34. Australian Aboriginal campsites at Pelican Point and Tauwitchere Barrage, and landscape scenes on the Coorong (SA). November 1947. 9 b/w prints, 11x8cm; 1 duplicate.

  35. Australian Aboriginal campsites at Hood's Drift, Cape Buffon, Douglas Point, Green Bay and Gnurlong Point, and landscape scenes in the SE of SA. February 1948. 18 b/w prints, 11x8cm.

  36. Roelands, Carrolup, Tardun and New Norcia missions (WA) and Ooldea Mission (SA). August 1948. 3 b/w prints, 8x8cm; 1 duplicate; 13 b/w prints, 11x8cm.

  37. Australian Aboriginal people at Redlynch and English Street Aboriginal Reserve, near Cairns. (QLD). October 1949. 6 b/w prints, 11x8cm; 1 b/w print, 9x6cm.

  38. Marree, Oodnadatta, Everard Park Station, Granite Downs Station and Ernabella Mission taken during trip with JB Cleland (see AA 60) to Musgrave Range and Everard Range (SA). April 1950. 14 b/w prints, 8x6cm; 4 b/w prints, 6x6cm.

  39. Musgrave Range, Everard Range and Todmordon Station (SA). April 1950. 16 b/w prints, 6x6cm; 2 b/w prints, 8x6cm; 1 b/w print, 20x15cm.

  40. Brisbane during Australasian Medical Congress, June 1950, and some of the Black family. 13 b/w prints, 6x6cm; 22 negatives.

  41. Labour Day Procession in Adelaide and Black's aeroplane flight over Lake Eyre (SA). October 1950. 8 b/w prints, 6x6cm; 2 duplicates.

  42. Coorong (SA) showing landscape scenes. 1950. 7 b/w prints, 11x8cm.

  43. Public buildings in Robe (SA). March 1953. 11 b/w prints, 6x6cm.

  44. Canberra (ACT). February 1954. 9 b/w prints, 6x6cm; 14 negatives.

  45. Black family collecting saltbush plants at Largs Bay dated January 1955 and some taken during holiday to Balranald (NSW) dated December 1954. 7 b/w prints, 6x6cm; 10 negatives.

  46. Meadows Creek, Strathalbyn, Coorong, Barmera (SA) and Adelaide Airport. 1955. 8 b/w prints, 6x6cm.

  47. Adelaide during a visit by Queen Elizabeth. 1954. 9 b/w prints, 6x6cm; 9 negatives.

  48. Broken Hill (NSW). 1954. 2 b/w prints, 6x6cm; 5 negatives.

  49. Murray River and Darling River (SA). March 1956. 17 b/w prints, 6x6cm; 1 b/w print, 11x6cm.

  50. Murray Bridge, Mannum and Blanchetown (SA) during floods on the River Murray. 1956. 9 b/w prints, 6x6cm; 8 negatives.

  51. Floodwaters at Murray Bridge and the mouth of the Murray River (SA) dated November 1956 and a waterfall on Wild Dog Creek, near Myponga dated December 1956. 5 b/w prints, 6x6cm.

  52. Blanchetown, Murray River (SA), during 1956 flood. 27 b/w prints, 6x6cm.

  53. Proclamation Day Ceremony at Glenelg dated 1958 (?) plus historical monuments and landscape scenes on Eyre Peninsula, including Memory Cove, Port Lincoln and Coffin Bay (SA) dated February 1958. 10 b/w prints, 6x6cm; 12 negatives.

  54. Lincoln Park Painting Site near Whyalla (SA). December 1958. 5 b/w prints, 6x6cm; 6 negatives.

  55. Australian Aboriginal middens near Long Bay, Coorong (SA). March 1959. 6 b/w, 6x6cm; 6 negatives.

  56. Australian Aboriginal rock art at Yourambulla Caves, Flinders Ranges (SA) dated June 1960; Australian Aboriginal campsites at Kingston (S-E of SA) dated January 1960 and Cape Jervis dated 1960. 4 b/w prints, 9x9cm; 6 negatives.

  57. Excavation of Australian Aboriginal skeleton at Tunkalilla Beach, east of Cape Jervis (SA) dated from November 1960 to January 1961 and excavation of skeleton at Moana dated November 1960. 9 b/w prints, 9x9cm; 13 negatives.

  58. Hobart (TAS), including one photograph of rock engravings in the Hobart Museum. August 1965. 3 b/w prints, 9x9cm; 4 negatives.

  59. Australian Aboriginal stone arrangements on Arcoona Station, near Woomera (SA). November 1965. 5 b/w prints, 9x9cm; 8 negatives.

  60. Australian Aboriginal canoe trees near Milang taken on a trip with Robert Edwards (see AA83). January 1967. 9 b/w prints, 9x9cm; 1 duplicate; 9 negatives.

  61. Black's trip to Nullarbor Plain; including excavations at Koonalda Cave and photographs of Kudna Rockhole, Murrawijinie Cave, Koonalda Station and Nullarbor Station. February 1967. 9 b/w prints, 9x9cm; 3 b/w prints, 13x9cm; 10 negatives.

  62. Black's trip to Nullarbor Plain in February 1967, including excavations at Koonalda Cave and photographs of Kudna Rockhole and Murrawijjinnie Cave (SA). 14 b/w prints, 13x9cm.

  63. Australian Aboriginal canoe trees near Gemmell, Mt Lofty Ranges (SA). March 1967. 6 b/w prints, 13x9cm.

  64. Black on the River Murray in 1967, including Devon Downs, Overland Corner and proposed site of Chowilla Dam (SA). 5 b/w prints, 9x9cm; 6 negatives.

  65. Royal Adelaide Hospital and city sky-line. April 1967. 10 b/w prints, 13x9cm.

  66. Lake Victoria, and the cairn on the SA-NSW border. March 1968. 2 b/w prints, 13x9cm.

  67. Ruins of old miners' cottages at Silverton, near Cape Jervis (SA). May 1969. 5 b/w prints, 13x9cm.

  68. Murray River, December 1970, including collection of Australian Aboriginal artefacts at Barmera, blazed tree at Murtho Park and historical plaques at Loxton (SA). 9 b/w prints, 13x9cm; 7 negatives.

  69. Prints taken from envelope labelled 'Robe & Goolwa tree' (SA). No other details. 9 b/w prints, 6x6cm.

  70. Country and domestic scenes from envelope labelled 'Country trips with Arn' [Arnold Black]. No other details. Possibly 1920s. 12 b/w prints, 11x9cm.

  71. Australian Aboriginal campsites on Murray River (SA). No other details. 9 b/w prints, 6x6cm; 11 negatives.

  72. River Torrens and parklands, North Terrace buildings (SA). Possibly 1955. 12 b/w prints, 6x6cm.

  73. Country scenes. Unidentified. 9 b/w prints, 9x6cm; 9 negatives.

  74. Hallett Cove, Port Willunga and memorial to the early explorer, Horrocks, at Wilmington (SA). 4 b/w prints, 11x9cm.

  75. Australian Aboriginal sites including Native Valley cave paintings and canoe tree (near Kanmantoo), Australian Aboriginal campsites (possibly Coorong), Australian Aboriginal engravings near Burra and some of the old miners' cottages at Burra (SA). 18 b/w prints, 9x9cm; 12 negatives.

  76. Broome (WA). 2 b/w prints, 11x7cm.

  77. Australian Aboriginal campsites, probably Coorong (SA). 6 b/w prints, 11x9cm.

  78. Australian Aboriginal campsites north of Broken Hill (NSW) and Black family photographs. 17 b/w prints, various sizes; 3 negatives.

  79. 'Shearing, Nor-West Australia, 1902' attributed to William Blackwood Sanders (see AA 276). 1 b/w print, 12x7cm.

  80. Australian Aboriginal cave painting site at Lincoln Park (near Whyalla, SA), Charles Darke memorial near Waddikee (Eyre Peninsula, SA) and other unidentified country scenes. 11 colour negatives.

  81. Eucolo Creek engraving site, near Woomera, and Australian Aboriginal campsites on Arcoona Station (SA). November 1965. 23 colour slides.

  82. Monoman Creek and Chowilla (SA) area. February 1966. 14 colour slides.

  83. Murray River. June 1966. 11 colour slides.

  84. Broughton River, near Yacka (SA). November 1966. 6 colour slides.

  85. Archaeological excavations at Lake Robe (SA). December 1966. 11 colour slides.

  86. Field-trips during ANZAAS Conference in Melbourne, including photographs of archaeological excavations at Keilor and Mt William (VIC) axe quarry. January 1967. 10 colour slides.

  87. Black's trip to the Nullarbor Plain, including Eyre Highway, Ivy Tanks, Koonalda Cave and Great Australian Bight (SA) cliffs. February 1967. 16 colour slides.

  88. Australian Aboriginal people at Yuendumu (NT) preparing and using stone artefacts. October 1967. 33 colour slides.

  89. Alice Springs (NT). October 1967. 11 colour slides.

  90. Australian Aboriginal painting site at Native Valley (near Kanmantoo) and Australian Aboriginal campsites at Coorong, Sellicks Beach and Murray River (SA). 1960-61. 15 colour slides.

  91. Australian Aboriginal campsite near Burra and Aboriginal engravings at Ketchowla. October 1961. 7 colour slides.

  92. Black while working as a doctor in the United Kingdom and during his holidays in Nice (France). 1913-14. 63 b/w prints, 11x8cm; some duplicates; 15 negatives, 11x8 cm; 3 b/w prints, 5x4cm.

  93. Gladstone (Mid-North of SA) apparently during a period of leave from war service in December 1916 [with brother George Black]. 3 b/w prints, 11x8cm; 5 b/w prints, 7x5cm.



This series includes references to: Adelaide - Mount Lofty Ranges; Central East; Eyre Peninsula; Flinders Ranges; Kangaroo Island; North Central; North West; North East; Nullarbor - Great Victoria Desert; River Murray - Coorong, South East; Yorke Peninsula.

This series also includes references to: Australian Capital Territory; New South Wales; Northern Territory; Queensland; Tasmania; Victoria; Western Australia.

CreatorDr Eustace Couper Black
ControlAA 31/6/1
Date Range1902  -  1970
Quantity 85cm,    
FormatsPhotographic Film Negatives, Loose Photographic Prints, Mounted Photographic Prints
Series AA 31/06