Six loose leaf double-sided pages of black and white photographs from an album once belonging to Gwendolyn Edith Millicent Risson (née Spurgin). The photographs include university excursions, possibly at Townsville, Palm Island and Tweed Heads, and at least one with Dorothy Hill. There are also some photographs of current events, including the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York in 1927, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge under construction.

Album of twelve sepia photographs of views of North Queensland including Cairns, Herberton, Barron George, Barron Falls, Hambledon and railways in the area. Title handwritten inside album. Album is undated. A handwritten list of captions and supplied item numbers has been inserted prior to the title page. Most photographs appear to be around the construction of the railway to Herberton which began in Cairns in 1886. It finished in Ravenshoe in 1916.

Written on the inside cover the album, presumably by the seller: "In. [Inventory] 5033. Royal Qto. Oblong Purple toned. 10 [shillings]". These type of photographs were often taken by the Queensland Government.

Each photo has caption, supplied information is included in square brackets:

1. Glacier Rock . --
2. [Cairns-Herberton railway] From 28 bridge. --
3. Surprise Creek bridge [Cairns-Herberton railway]. --
4. Cairns end of long tunnel. --
5. The Barron Gorge. --
6. Herberton end of the tunnel. --
7. Near the Barron. --
8. Barron Falls. --
9. Aborigines of Cairns-Herberton district. --
10. Kanaka women working in sugar cane. --
11. Hambledon Sugar Plantation Cairns, general views. --
12. Hoeing weeds in young cane.

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Album containing 73 black-and-white photographs (sizes vary), 106 negatives (sizes vary), one colour photograph (17 x 23 cm) and 18 mounted slides (35 mm) relating to Caroline Kelly's professional life in the theatre and as an anthropologist. Includes photographs of Margaret Mead, people in possibly Samoa or another location in the Pacific Islands, people at the Cherboug community in Queensland, tobacco farming and a community gathering on the Atherton Tableland, and housing developments associated with Kelly's work for the New South Wales State Planning Authority (later known as the New South Wales Planning and Environment Commission). One set of negatives is accompanied by a handwritten note, possibly authored by Caroline Kelly, marked 'Scenes from a corroboree, N. Queensland'; another set is accompanied by a handwritten note marked 'Studies in a native settlement'.

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Proof sheets and digital copies of the glass plate negatives containing images mostly of Aboriginal Australian peoples, with many taken at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement.

Parcel 2
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DVD-R containing 107 digital copies of images derived from the glass plate negatives. There are two copies of each image, in both JPG and TIF file formats.

Folder 2
Nine proof sheets of images derived from the glass plate negatives.

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49 glass plate negatives, 9 x 9 cm, containing images mostly of Aboriginal Australian peoples, with many taken at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement. Many of the plate negatives also have handwritten numbered labels attached to the frame, possibly by the creator.

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21 glass plate negatives, 12 x 17 cm, created by Mary Christison and compiled by Mary Christison's daughter, Mary Montgomerie Bennett. The plates contain images of Lammermoor Homestead; three portraits of Robert Christison at ages 20, 40 and 75; and various identified Aboriginal Australian individuals of the Dalleburra Tribe, Mitchell District in North Queensland. Some of the plates contain photographs of photographs.

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Full-length portrait of an Aboriginal Australian child, aged about 3. The handwritten notes accompanying a print of the negative in Series A Item 1 identifies him as 'Tommy, section Ko-bro of the Dalleburra Tribe'. The note also attributes his despairing facial expression to the fact Mrs Christison dressed him in a 'Tumburra', a clothing item worn only by women, mistakenly thinking it was worn universally.

Full-length portrait of an Aboriginal Australian child, aged about 3, standing in a garden and wearing a European-style dress. The handwritten notes accompanying a print of the negative in Series A Item 1 identifies him as 'Tommy, section Ko-bro of the Dalleburra Tribe'.

Side profile of a young Aboriginal Australian man. A handwritten inscription on the front of the plate identifies him as 'Warmbunny, a young Dalleburra stockman'.

Side profile of an Aboriginal Australian boy. The handwritten notes accompanying a print of the negative in Series A Item 1 identifies him as 'Charley, a Dalleburra boy, aged about 16'.