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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

  1. landscape showing camel train loaded with bags. Annotated "44. Camel train carrying chaff for horses, used in making embankments in the construction of the North-South Railway. Feb 1928" See also slide marked "Camels with chaff"

  2. landscape showing camel train and car, in distance. Annotated "45. Transport in Central Aust. It will be many years before the motor car, supersedes the camel in the sandy wastes of our continent. Here is seen a camel train carrying ten tons of water. The daily supply for one of the gangs of the North-South railway construction"

  3. horse, scoop. Annotated "44. Horses scooping sand to complete embankments North-South Railway. Feb 1928"

  4. group photograph horse, and men working on rail line. Annotated "48. Plate laying gang North-South railway construction. They lay about a mile of rails and sleepers per day. Feb 1928"

  5. man and camel. Annotated "57. Whipping water. Camel is attached to an endless cable and marches patiently up and down from dawn till dark. In summer there is frequently not a breath of wind to turn the windmill and 20 gallons per beast per day must be drawn to water a mob of cattle. Dec 1927"

  6. landscape showing road through trees. Annotated "58. 3 months later on Crown Point Station the same place as previous picture. The drought is worse and now not only is there no herbage but also the foliage on the gum trees which is distasteful to cattle has been eaten by them in their endeavour to resist starvation. Mar 1928"

Creator: Dr William Delano Walker
Control: AA 357/2/67/19 A-F
Date Range:  1927  -  1928
Quantity:  0.1cm,   8   photographs, 80x80mm lantern slides
Formats: Loose Photographic Prints
Series:  AA357/02