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205 x 150 mm. A view down into the valley, with wooded hills in the distance.

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190 x 140 mm. A view of the island from the east, showing a few buildings which are probably naval warehouses. From 1866 the island was used as a depot for H.M. Ships in Australian waters. From 1877, when a financial arrangement was agreed, building started on the island. This photograph was probably taken around 1885, before building had progressed to any great extent. Between 1940-45 the island was made into a peninsula, joined to the mainland by a graving dock.

Scope and Contents Two soft-covered albums containing prints, generally measuring approximately 150 x 110 mm. The prints are uncaptioned but have identifying negative numbers corresponding to those in the archives of the GSWA: all information has been kindly supplied by J.H. Lord, Director, Geological Survey, Department of Mines, Perth, on the basis of these numbers. The photographs themselves show landscape, geological formations and mining activity in West Australia and were taken by various photographers...

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195 x 150 mm. A view of the pier, with a railway line running along it, and a steam cargo ship moored alongside (ship is the 'Hobart' of Melbourne).

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107 x 151 mm. A view looking west at a glaciated boulder embedded in the blue clay of the Irwin River Bank. A pick is placed in the foregound as an indication of scale. Photograph by W.D. Campbell. Negative No. 338.

Scope and Contents A set of seven spearheads of various sizes crafted in the early 1930s by the indigenous people of Kimberley District, Western Australia. They are made from recycled glass bottles and insulators removed from telegraph poles and continue a three thousand year-old tradition of making spearheads. Their distinctive serrated edges were made by ‘pressure flaking’—a technique which involves applying a pointed stick or a shaped piece of animal bone at a very slight oblique angle to the flat of the...

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151 x 108 mm. A view showing a wooded slope near Donnybrook showing the characteristic 'blackboy' trees. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 172.

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200 x 145 mm. Showing a fully fleeced flock of sheep being driven through the bush.

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152 x 108 mm. A view showing the excavated hillside with small caverns and mounds of quarried earth. Photogrpah by S.J. Becher. Negative No. 127.

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152 x 107 mm. A view looking over hilly land with a granite outcrop projecting from beneath Jurassic fossiliferous beds in the foreground. 'The fossiliferous limestone occurs where the man is standing [on a hill in the background]'. Photograph by W.D. Campbell. Negative No. 515.

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152 x 108 mm. A view showing a formation of rounded granite boulders set among scrubland, 24 miles north-north-west of Meekatharra townsite. Photograph by A.G. Maitland. Negative No. 601.

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152 x 108 mm. A view showing sheep and horses watering at a pool. The waterhole itself is lined in the background by huge rounded granite boulders. Photograph by C.G.Gibson.

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152 x 107 mm. A view showing rounded granite boulders on grassland north of Ponton River. Photograph by C.G. Gibson. Negative No. 477.

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152 x 107 mm. A view showing a man standing next to a horse and cart beside two grass trees (also known as 'Blackboys') in the area north of Yandin Hill. Photograph By W.D. Campbell. Negative No. 286.

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205 x 150 mm. View of mine buildings with chimneys and railway line. Boulder is a town on the eastern goldfields, just south of Kalgoorlie, which proved an immensely rich lead, and led to the discovery of the 'Golden Mile', one of the largest gold-bearing areas in the world.

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104 x 80 mm.

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200 x 150 mm. A view directly down the street, with telegraph poles, and a level crossing. Hannan Street is named after Paddy Hannan who in 1893 discovered the gold that led to the great Kalgoorlie gold rushes of the nineties.

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200 x 150 mm. Showing a large field of wheat, with a man and dog sitting in foreground beside a stook.

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205 x 150 mm. View of field with stooks and two figures.

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200 x 145 mm. A rear view of a horse-drawn harvester in a field of high grass.

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205 x 150 mm. Showing horse-drawn harvesters at work.

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205 x 150 mm. A view down the street, with tramlines and telegraph wires overhead, and an electric tram in the distance.

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200 x 145 mm. Showing the stream flowing into a pool.

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200 x 145 mm. View of homestead and farm buildings, with fruit trees growing at left and hill behind.

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138 x 82 mm. A view showing a worker operating a hydraulic sluicing pipe in claering at 'Dumpling Gully'. Photograph by H.P. Woodward. Negative No. Film 10.