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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. WD Walker and unidentified man with Australian bustard. Annotated "7. A fine specimen of wild turkey shot near Alice Springs C Aus" See also slide marked "WDW and W McCoy with turkey"

  2. group photograph family in garden. Annotated "10. The pride of the 'Nor West'. This garden is at Bon Bon homestead, a glorious blaze of color and compares more than favourably with gardens in the garden city. Bon Bon is a sheep station 40 miles Nth of Kingoonya on the East West line" (SAMA 1053) See also slide marked "Bon Bon garden"

  3. two cars, in the forest. Annotated "11. Our camp at the entrance to Wilpena Pound Flinders Ranges S Aus. We spent a fortnight here in the middle of winter"

  4. goat cart. Annotated "14. Boys goat team at Blinman (Flinders Ra). These children get 5/- per load for roots which they sell in the township. Goats will generally forage for themselves even in drought but during recent very severe drough goats were dying and boys had to buy chaff to feed their workers"

Creator: Dr William Delano Walker
Control: AA 357/2/71/33 A-D
Date Range:  1918  -  1930
Quantity:  0.1cm,   6   photographs, 80x80mm lantern slides
Formats: Loose Photographic Prints
Series:  AA357/02