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Photographic Prints taken by Dr WD and Mrs MV Walker

Archive Collections / Dr William Delano Walker / Series AA357/02 / Photographic Prints taken by Dr WD and Mrs MV Walker
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  1. sleeping Australian Aboriginal children. Annotated "flashlight photograph 10pm 15/1/28. Half caste children asleep at the Alice Springs 'Bungalow'. This place is a disgrace male and female sleep alongside one another just as close as sardines in a tin. They sleep in the same clothes as they have on all day long" This item is restricted.

  2. sleeping Australian Aboriginal children. Annotated "flashlight photograph 15/1/28 10pm. Half caste children asleep at the Alice Springs 'Bungalow'. Their ages range from birth to 25 years. Babies are born amongst this mass of humanity. They are 'common property' within 30 yds of the hotel. An 10 ft fence should be erected around this place without delay and it should be locked at sundown. It is high time however that they were removed and decently housed at a safe distance"

  3. sleeping Australian Aboriginal children. Annotated "flashlight photograph 10pm 15/1/28. Half caste children asleep at the Alice Springs 'Bungalow'. The whole 70 of them sleep on the ground in an area 10x7 ie 6ft 6ins each. A whole family sleeps on a blanket as in the picture"

  4. shed frame. Annotated "foundations and skeleton structures for the new half caste 'Bungalow' at Jay Creek 30 miles West of Alice Springs. Saw mills were erected timber cut and concrete foundations laid at a cost of 3000 pounds - now lying idle because the govt geologist of SA was unable to locate the permanent water known by old residents to be there"

  5. group photograph Australian Aboriginal children

  6. group photograph Australian Aboriginal children seated. Annotated "half caste children at the Alice Springs 'Bungalow'. Here they are seen at breakfast consisting of bread and treacle and tea. Dinner and tea = ditto. The only addition being a stew of potatoes and 1 goat (about 30 lbs of meat) between 70 of them every 2nd day"

Creator: Dr William Delano Walker
Control: AA 357/2/63/5 A-F
Date Range:  1923  -  1929
Quantity:  0.1cm,    
Formats: Loose Photographic Prints
Series:  AA357/02