‘Fitzroy Crossing UAM hostel girls, 1960s’ is an image published in Mowanjum: 50 years community history (p.205). The caption names one of the girls and reads in part, ‘station girls at the United Aborigines Mission hostel in Fitzroy Crossing in the 1960s’. The photo shows approximately 40 girls and standing in three rows in front…
‘Mowanjum community gate 1970s’ is an image published in Mowanjum: 50 years community history (p.115). The caption reads, ‘Mowanjum front gate, 1973-74’. It shows a tall metal gate with a left-hand and right-hand entrance/exit over a red sandy road, with ‘Mowanjum Community’ written in red letters on white signage. A few buildings are just visible…
‘Map West Kimberleys’ is an image published in Mowanjum: 50 years community history (p.23). It shows a map of the West Kimberley region, with names of communities and landmarks along the coast from Bigge Island to King Sound identified.
‘Mowanjum picnic 1969’ is an image published in Mowanjum: 50 years community history (p.106). The caption reads, ‘Going for a picnic from Old Site in 1969 on the trailer pulled by the old Massey Ferguson tractor known to the children as Bug Bug because of the slow putt putt of the engine’. The image shows…
‘Kunmunya [Port George IV] 1920’ is an image published in Mowanjum: 50 years community history (p.42). The caption has a description from Jimmy Mulline which reads ‘When I was little we went to Kunmunya and we camped there at the side of the hill. That was where visitors used to camp. They had only a…
‘Wotjulum 1955’ is an image published in Mowanjum: 50 years community history (p.79). It shows the Wotjulum site, which is made up of a series of small shacks located along a dirt track.
‘Karalundi swimming pool’ is a digital copy of an image published in the Australasian Record and Advent World Survey on the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists’ website, Online Document Archives. The caption reads, ‘The swimming pool provides hours of refreshment and happy relaxation’.
‘Dormitory, Wiluna’ is a digital copy of an image published in the Australasian Record and Advent World Survey on the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists’ website, Online Document Archives. The caption reads, ‘The dormitory building at the beginning of the fourth day of its erection’.
‘Karalundi Mission’ is a digital copy of an image published in the Signs of the Times on the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists’ website, Online Document Archives. The caption reads, ‘Karalundi Mission, 540 miles northeast of Perth in West Australia.
This is a digitised copy of a photographic print and is part of the group of seven images titled ‘Cundeelee Mission [picture]’ held at the State Library of Western Australia. The image shows a group of children standing on a tree log at Cundeelee.
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