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Dr William Delano Walker personal diaries

Archive Collections / Dr William Delano Walker / Series AA357/04 / 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:

  • Daily mail Snapshot Contest blue dot = sent 26 August 1930. 1. Lightning, 2. The glorious 12th in Central Australia, 3. Aboriginal childern at play, Alice Springs, 5. fat little fella with his mammy's eye's (Aqustralian Aboriginal child), 4. Wild Aborigines of North Australia (Australian Aboriginal people), 6. entries for the sack race, 7. eating the treacly bun (Australian Aboriginal women), 8. Galloping after stampeding cattle, 9. Transporting wool, 10. sheep shearing. 11. Natives approaching a liner

  • Titles and captions - Australian Aboriginal people. List of 36 photographs. Reverse. Java list of 13 photographs. New Zealand unnumbered list of photograpahs

  • separation sheet annotated "Given"

  • Personal photographs given away, followed by a numbered list giving date taken and who given to (initials only). 1. 1911-17 Port Elliot, 2. 1920-25 St Peter's, 3. 1926-27 Abbottsford Hotel, 4. taken March to June 1927 sent November 1929 Wibberley, Deegan West Coast, hansen, Kashagen Kangaroo Island, 5. June 1928 Beltana, Copeland Patterson Noblett, 6. July - August 1928 Hawker Aboriginal Report, September 1928 innamincka about 2000 photographs, December 1928 Thursday Island, 7. around London about 2000, 8. December 1930 around London 300 promised NZ, Port Victor

Creator: Dr William Delano Walker
Control: AA 357/4/29/20
Date Range:  1920  -  1938
Quantity:  0.1cm,    
Formats: General Publications, Diaries, Indexes
Series:  AA357/04
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