Dr William Delano Walker personal diaries

A loose leaf diary detailing WD Walker's daily life including study, medical duties, travel and personal routine.

This part of the loose leaf diary documents WD Walker's interest in photography.

Individuals, subject matter and locations noted include:

  • >separation sheet annotated "Java"

  • Java (diary November 1928) list of 26 photographs for The Children's Hour

  • uncited news paper clipping dated September 1929. Headline "Java described. Small land; Large population"

  • Java, 1. Lights at Batavia, 2. Rice bridge on Weltevreden Canal, 3. Javanese harrowing in the paddy fields. Reverse 4. Javanese man with his primitive wooden harrows

  • 5. Javanese women at work in the rice fields, 6. Cocoanut plantation at Buitenzorg, 7. A load of kapok, 8. Javanese coolie carrying tapioca to market. Reverse 9. The travelling cook, 10. Scene on the Weltevreden Canal, 11. Washing day on the Weltevreden Canal

  • 12. Gateway at a Chinese cemetery, borobodur. Reverse 14. The village of Tosari, 15. Self in a sedan chair

  • 16. Party returning from Bromo volcano, 17. Bromo volcano, 18. Steps of Bromo, 19. Javanese coolies scrambling for coins, 20. Looking down into the crater of bromo volcano. Reverse 21. A Javanese carrying his wares to the native bazaar, 22. The sedan chair is a favourite

CreatorDr William Delano Walker
ControlAA 357/4/29/15
Date Range1920  -  1938
Quantity 0.1cm,    
FormatsNewspaper Clippings, General Publications, Diaries, Indexes
Series AA357/04