Documents and photographs collected by Roy James Walden.
Folder 1
Seventy six (76) typescript and handwritten items including receipts, letters, lease documents, invoices, telegram and cards concerning Roy James Walden and the various pastoral properties he leased in the Burke district. These properties include: Adina Holdings and Calshot Holdings.
Parcel 1
Eighty five (85) photographs, several are reprints, of Escott station, Walden family, Burketown area as well as some photographs taken on an overseas trip:
- Frank Walden, 2yrs 3 months, undated, black and white; real photo postcard which has been attached to glass (probably framed at some point).
- Frank Walden, ca. 1910, Marless Station, Burketown.
- Ellen Regan (later Mrs Frank Walden) of Golden Gate, Croyden District, ca. 1910. Inscription: “To dear Jane from Nell”
- Nickolson River Escott Station, Burketown. Black and white, early 1900s, includes an Aboriginal Australian spear fishing from the side of the river, captioning in white print on front of photograph
- Salt-getting. Escott Station, Burketown. Black and white, early 1900s, includes Aboriginal Australians, captioning in white print on front of photograph.
- Escott Station, Burketown. Black and white, early 1900s, captioning in white print on front of photograph, on verso handwritten in pencil 'McIntyre (original owner) on horse.
- Real photo postcard; black and white; handwritten on verso 'Croyden : Queen Carnival won by Miss Regan Her father, Jerry Regan, holding horse' 'Photograph has children in horse cart with horse WWI era'.
- Real photo postcard; black and white; handwritten on verso 'Croyden Carnival Queen competition, WWI era'.
- Reprint black and white photograph; handwritten on verso 'Right Robert John Walden, eldest son of Robert Walden, who migrated from England, landing at Rockhampton and then travelling overland to Burketown. Robert Walden (Snr) purchased a bullock team in Rockhampton to make this journey'. Image has three adult men and seated on the ground is an Aboriginal Australian child. Undated. [Robert Walden was the uncle of Roy Walden].
- Unidentified group, undated, partial photograph. [10a to 10b].
- J. Morgan, Uncle of Frank Walden, Wales, undated.
- Death announcement, Robert Walden, 1910.
- Real photo postcard with mother and child; black and white, undated; handwritten on verso 'To Dear Nell with love from Liple and self. Liples is just 7 months xxxxxx'.
- Grandmother, Frank and Harold Walden, undated; with handwritten annotation on verso.
- Real photo postcard with image of a family group of seven adults, black and white, undated.
- Real photo postcard with an image of Mr and Mrs Duke Simpson and four children, black and white, undated. Handwritten on verso ' To Dear Nell and Frank. With fond love from the Simpson family.
- Real photo postcard with image of Kathleen, black and white, 15/8/18. Handwritten on verso 'To Mrs Walden with love from Kathleen 15/8/18'.
- Reprint of original photograph, black and white, undated. Handwritten on verso 'Robert Waldon 28.4.1822 - 9.5.1902 and Martha Bailey 5.7.1829 - 23.6.1902 with children excluding John Walden, who died prior to the photo'.
- Real photo postcard with image of Quetta Memorial Cathedral, Thursday Island, black and white, undated.
- Reprint of a photograph of the grave of Robert and Annie Walden, Burketown, undated.
- Reprint of a photograph, black and white, undated. Handwritten on verso 'Grave of Robert and Annie Walden, Burketown'.
- Reprint of a photograph, black and white, undated. Handwritten on verso 'N.T. Humbolt River Area, N.T. - not Waldens'.
- Horses at Burketown, August, black and white, 1945.
- Camooweal Mail truck, Billy Snorkins, black and white, undated.
- Three men at Burketown, black and white, ca. 1955. Handwritten on verso 'Burketown, ca. 1955 [indecipherable] (centre and left) & Jack (Bright) Chambers (on right)
- Store Truck, black and white, undated. Handwritten on verso 'last store truck Synnott, Murray & Scholes owned - newly built wharf at time - post [indecipherable]'.
- Yarrum Station, owned by Murray’s, black and white, undated.
- Unnamed group, 9 men, black and white, undated.
- Roy Branding horse, Frank Walden (senior) holding rope, black and white, ca. 1943-1944.
- Nardoo Homestead, black and white, undated.
- Unnamed male in truck, black and white, undated.
- After a cyclone, black and white, undated.
- Drover’s wife and Mr Walden, Augustus downs Station, early 1960s, black and white.
- One male at water’s edge, black and white, undated.
- Group of men with horses, black and white, undated.
- Two Australian Aboriginal men and one white male on horseback, black and white, undated.
- Unnamed group, black and white, undated.
- Escott – Adina getting logs for yards, black and white, undated.
- Burketown Cricket team taken at Lorraine Station, black and white, 1930. Accompanied by copy of newspaper cutting showing Roy Walden's father (front row left). Includes Frank Walden, Marless Station and Jack Schollar, “Punjab” station
- Killing yard at Escott, black and white, undated.
- Calshot, black and white, undated.
- Escott, black and white, undated.
- Reprint of photograph with unnamed man of camel, black and white, undated.
- Frank Walden on horseback, black and white, undated.
- Frank Walden (Senior) at salt pans behind hospital and cemetery early 1930s – boring for water?, black and white, undated.
- Horse and dog, black and white, undated.
- Ellen's Uncle [?] Regan, brother of Jerry Regan, black and white, undated.
- Jerry Walden, father of Ellen Walden (wife of Frank Walden), black and white, undated.
- Two men branding horses, black and white, undated.
- Escott, black and white, 1960s.
- Two men with cattle, Adina, black and white, 1960s.
- Major Walden and Frank Walden, Adina, black and white, ca. 1964.
- Reprint of photograph of three unidentified males, enlarged photo, black and white, undated.
- Reprint of photograph of branding horses, black and white, undated. [54a to 54d].
- Roy James Walden on ‘Numerella’, Escott, black and white, 1961.
- Herbert Walden (back to camera), Roy Walden branding cattle, Escott, black and white, 1963.
- Farm workers on truck, black and white, undated.
- 1 male (R. J. Walden?), black and white, undated.
- Australian Aboriginal couple with white female, near Escott, Nicholson River, c. 1950. (Reprint).
- ‘Old’ School at Burketown, black and white, 1900s. (Reprint).
- Old Doyle house in Burketown, colour, undated.
- Post Office, Burketown, colour, 1976.
- Light aircraft, colour, undated.
- Light aircraft, colour, undated.
- Inscription of gravestone, colour, undated.
- Gravestone of Roy James Walden, colour, undated.
- Gravestone of Roy James Walden, colour, undated.
- Gravestone of Roy James Walden, colour, undated.
- Truck, colour, undated.
- Burketown Races, colour, Aug 1981.
- Horses, colour, undated.
- Start of the Roy James Memorial Race, Burketown, colour, Jul 1981.
- Colour scenic photos, colour, undated. [73a to 73f].
- Colour scenes of Prague, colour, 1983. [74a to 74b].
- Interior of private home, Czechoslovakia, Mr. Jiri Novotny, black and white, 1983.
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