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
Item 6
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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Correspondence, handwritten and typed. Includes an undated handwritten statement signed by Lenard Law, possibly writing as an amanuensis. The statement is written in the first-person and contains biographical details of an Aboriginal person confined against his/her wishes at the Cherbourg settlement.
Correspondents include John Joseph Quinn, Wilfred Wragge, Maidie Ross (Restricted), Arthur Cobba Simson, Doris Crawford, W. Porteus Semple (Superintendent Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement), Leslie Wilson (Governor of Queensland), and Tom Blackman.

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Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings of aboriginal affairs, compiled for Abschol from March 1963 to July 1966. Compiled by Henny Bakker. Scrapbook includes pamphlets, booklets, and postcards.

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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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Letters to Timothy Kelly from Caroline Kelly, from an original folder labelled Cherbourg letters. It is comprised of nineteen handwritten letters, twenty-one typescript letters and one incomplete letter. One of the typescript letters has attached a four leaf account of an event at Dinny Embury's [sic, should be Embery's] home. One letter started as a typescript but is mostly handwritten.

Some names mentioned in the letters include: Dinny Embery, Ada Beckett, Vincent Law, Mable Law and Charles Chavel (regarding his movie Heritage)

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Letters to Timothy Kelly from Caroline Kelly, from an original folder labelled Cherbourg letters. It is comprised of sixteen handwritten letters, twenty typescript letters (many with handwritten post-scripts), four incomplete typescript letters, three leaves with handwritten notes, and one newspaper cutting (from The Courier-Mail, 18 Aug 1934, page 12). One of the hand written notes was inside an envelope with organic matter (envelope and organic matter discarded). Many of these letters contain reference to, or personal reflections, about the people Kelly spoke with at Cherbourg.

List of full or partial names of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander individuals mentioned in the file:

? Semples [first name not provided]
McDonald [first name not provided]
Miss Dight
Mrs Ballads
Mr Bulls
? McCaffrey [first name not provided]
? McCarthy [first name not provided]
? McDonald [first name not provided]
? Mitchell [first name not provided]
Ada Beckett
Bill Dupain
Bill Robertson
Duchess
Dolly Button
Dorothy Colley
Eddie Gilbert
Frank Bell
Fred Darby
Jack Dalight
Jack Oliver
Josephine Concannon
M. Alban
Maria Dawson
Tommy Isles
Tim ? (adopted CTK) [last name not provided]
Viv Thompson

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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'.