This series consists of an album of 97 black and white photographic prints of various sizes, mounted on paper, with hand-written captions. Most of these photographs were taken between 1937 and 1949, when Iris Dicks lived at Ooldea Siding, South Australia. Some photographs were taken later in the 1950s at Penong, Fowlers Bay and the Yalata Aboriginal Reserve, when Iris and her husband were living in the Fowlers Bay area. The photographs are as follows:

1. 'Dicks' house, Ooldea'
   
   
2. 'Floods at Ooldea Siding'
   
   
3. 'Bobby the puppy'
   
   
4. 'Miniature weapons set at Ooldea'. (These sets of miniature spears, boomerangs etc were made by Aboriginal people at Ooldea and sold by the United Aborigines Mission to train travellers and other visitors)
   
   
5. 'Curios and Mrs Dicks'
   
   
6. 'Eagle caught at Ooldea'
   
   
7. 'My collection of native works'
   
   
8. 'Floods at Dicks' house'
   
   
9. 'Dicks' house at Ooldea'
   
   
10. 'House at Ooldea'
    
    
11. 'Mission garden' (Ooldea Mission)
    
    
12. 'Building unroofed in a storm at Ooldea'
    
    
13. 'Settlers and wives at Ooldea'
    
    
14. 'Names forgotten' (group of Aboriginal women)
    
    
15. 'Christmas cake'
    
    
16. 'Jipson work [sic] at Penong' (Gypsum works near Lake MacDonnell)
    
    
17. 'Beverley Dicks and baby'
    
    
18. 'Beverley Dicks, Sonny and Lizzy Williams and Wally Dicks at Penong'
    
    
19. [Christmas cake]
    
    
20. 'Reverend Constable at Cook Hospital'
    
    
21. 'Water catchment between Penong and Fowlers Bay'
    
    
22. 'Cooking on an outing in sandhills at Ooldea'
    
    
23. 'Dicks' tent'
    
    
24. 'Wally Dicks milking Gracie'
    
    
25. 'Camels visiting Ooldea from the coast'
    
    
26. 'Beverley by fence of sleepers around Dicks' house'
    
    
27. 'Mr Dicks with wedge-tail eagle at Ooldea'
    
    
28. 'Wool mats the mission girls made for Mrs Dicks'
    
    
29. 'Dicks' home at Ooldea'
    
    
30. 'Mission picnic sandhills Ooldea'
    
    
31. 'New house at Ooldea. Everything gone at Ooldea Siding now, only a couple of pepper trees still there'
    
    
32. 'Esther and Ernie Broong at Penong'
    
    
33. 'Mr and Mrs Tamie [sic] of Lutheran Mission at Yalata'. [Pastor Temme]
    
    
34. 'Yeta'
    
    
35. 'Evon [sic] and her mother and unknown girl at Yalata'
    
    
36. 'Esther and Ernie Broong and two others'
    
    
37. 'Fowlers Bay schoolchildren'
    
    
38. 'A wedge-tail eagle at Ooldea'
    
    
39. 'Dicks' house at Ooldea'
    
    
40. 'Beverley Dicks and 2 native children'
    
    
41. 'Wally and Iris Dicks and 3 men baptised at Ooldea'
    
    
42. 'Beverley Dicks in pram'
    
    
43. 'Mission picnic in sandhills at Ooldea'
    
    
44. 'Mission garden'
    
    
45. 'Trombone plants at the Ooldea Mission, Mrs Dicks among them'
    
    
46. 'In Watson quarries'
    
    
47. 'Wild turkey (15 lbs) and Beverley Dicks with its feathers'
    
    
48. 'Beverley Dicks with playmates at Ooldea'
    
    
49. 'Mission garden trombone plants'
    
    
50. 'Tents Mr and Mrs Dicks lived in for 2 years while waiting for a house at Ooldea'
    
    
51. 'Dicks house at Ooldea'
    
    
52. 'Goats being watered'
    
    
53. 'Mr and Mrs Reichenbach leaving on train at Ooldea'. (The Reichenbachs were missionaries at Ooldea)
    
    
54. 'Group of Ooldea folk at Fowlers Bay'
    
    
55. 'Dr and Mrs Duguid at Ooldea'
    
    
56. 'Iron Knob tanning station'
    
    
57. '2 girls from Cook visiting Ooldea in school holidays'
    
    
58. 'Mr Dicks with eagle'
    
    
59. 'Blow hole opened up in Watson quarries'
    
    
60. 'Evon [sic] with her brother and parents'
    
    
61. 'Lorna and Gloria Grantham, mother and daughter'
    
    
62. 'Daniel Moodo and daughters at Yalata'
    
    
63. 'Water catchment for Aboriginals near Penong'
    
    
64. 'Group of Ooldea natives'
    
    
65. 'Mr and Mrs Siggs on way to Warburton Range Mission. Taken at Fowlers Bay'. [The Siggs worked at Ooldea Mission and later at Warburton Range Mission (WA)]
    
    
66. 'Mr Butler and Mrs Dicks and friends at Watson quarries'
    
    
67. 'View of Ooldea Mission'
    
    
68. 'Harry' (Aboriginal man)
    
    
69. 'Sonny and Lizzy Williams at Ooldea with son, Ray'
    
    
70. 'Dicks' house and flags at end of World War II, Ooldea'
    
    
71. 'No information' (Aboriginal people at Ooldea Mission?)
    
    
72. 'Mr and Mrs Green and women from Ooldea on a picnic'. (Harrie Green was the Superintendent of the Ooldea Mission from 1936 until its closure in 1952; his wife, Marion, supervised the Children's Home. Harrie was later appointed Superintendent of Warburton Range Mission in Western Australia
    
    
73. 'Bobby' (puppy)
    
    
74. 'Flags of nations flying on fence at end of World War II, Ooldea'
    
    
75. 'Birds at our place, Ooldea'
    
    
76. 'No information' (Ooldea Siding?)
    
    
77. 'Stove in Dicks' house at Ooldea'
    
    
78. 'Dicks' tent'
    
    
79. 'Cockie and Bobby at Ooldea'
    
    
80. 'Sonny and Lizzie and Ray Williams at Ooldea'
    
    
81. 'Wally milking Gracie'
    
    
82. 'Swings at Ooldea Mission'
    
    
83. 'Mary and Beverley'
    
    
84. 'House at Ooldea, being reconditioned, living in back part at Ooldea'
    
    
85. 'Aboriginal miniature weapons sets made by Harry'
    
    
86. 'Dicks' house at Ooldea and bird aviary'
    
    
87. 'Dicks' tent home'
    
    
88. 'Lorna Grantham and daughter Gloria at Ooldea'
    
    
89. 'Beverley and Wally Dicks with a cage of parrots and dogs Jock and Bobby'
    
    
90. 'Daniel Moodo and daughters at Yalata'
    
    
91. 'Tanks from Ooldea being taken out to the mission'
    
    
92. 'Gloria Grantham and Evon [sic] at Fowlers Bay'
    
    
93. 'Sister and patient at Cook Hospital'
    
    
94. 'Beverley with - can't remember boy's name'
    
    
95. 'Wally Dicks and Mr Green, Beverley and other children at Mission'
    
    
96. 'Mrs Dicks with trombone patch'
    
    
97. 'Beverley and 2 native children'
    
    

Also included in this series is the acquisition agreement signed by Iris Dicks at the time the photographs were donated to the South Australian Museum, and some hand-written responses by Iris Dicks to questions posed by Philip Jones in March 1990. These notes contain some of Mrs Dicks' reminiscences of life at Ooldea Siding and the Aboriginal people and UAM missionaries, and additional details on some of the photographs.

The collection also includes a set of duplicate prints (13x9 cm) copied from Mrs Dicks' original nitrate negatives, filed in a separate album. Five of the duplicate prints were missing in August 2007.

This series contains references to the following region of South Australia: Nullarbor - Great Victoria Desert.

This series also contains references to: Western Australia.