Picture Australia images

[Keith Webb]

Just looking at the French Scrapyard thread I thought I'd begin the challenge of going through the Picture Australia library and do an advanced search excluding images from the AWM to see what surfaces.

Here's an example:

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Alder, Reg, 1917-2003.
Mascot TAA loading ca. 1946 [picture]
1946. 1 photograph : silver gelatin on fibre-based paper ; 9.1 x 11.3 cm.
Part of Collection of photographs of scenes in Canberra, Wonthaggi, Kosciusko, Sydney, Stanwell Park, wreck of S.S. Maitland, 1937-1949 [picture] 1937-1949.

[Keith Webb]

Title: Removal of the propeller from the wreck of the S.S. Dicky
Location: Dicky Beach (Qld.)
Date: 1963
Creator: Unknown
Description:
The propellor was mounted on a plaque which is located in the park adjacent to the wreck. The truck is a 1942 V8 Ford Blitz which belonged to Bob Bryan owner at the time of Sam's Service Station in Bulcock Street. Man pictured in the hat is Landsborough Shire Council foreman Frank McIvor.

Is part of: P87197

They're pretty accurate with the description - only one year out on the date of the truck.

[Keith Webb]

With an interesting Douglas aircraft - a DC5

Main Title: DC5 aircraft with truck in an airfield, ca 194? [picture]
Date: ca 194?
Description: 1 photograph : monochrome
Reference Number: 0000/0000342
Notes: Selected copies from the Jack Woodward collection.
Negative held.
Credits: Photographer, Unknown.
Shelving Notes: Part of the Collection: WOODWARD 2/199.
Restrictions on Use: Permission granted for public access and copying.

[Keith Webb]

Main Title: C. Stoner in truck, Garbutt Townsville, ca 194? [picture]
Date: ca 194?
Description: 1 photograph : monochrome
Reference Number: 0001/0001288
Notes: Selected copies from the Hammer collection.
Negative held.
Credits: Photographer, Unknown.
Shelving Notes: Part of the Collection: HAMMER 1/19.
Restrictions on Use: Permission granted for public access and copying.
Subject: Stoner, C.
Garbutt
Military vehicles
Townsville
BRN: 118100

[Keith Webb]

Fowler, Lyle
Armoured military vehicles in workshop [picture]
Date(s) of creation: [ca. 1955]
negative : flexible base ; 20.3 x 25.4 cm. approx.

[Keith Webb]

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Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962.
[Convoy of Allied military vehicles on a winding road, coast below, ca. 1940-1946] [picture] : [Barqah, Libya]
[between 1940 and 1946] 1 negative : nitrate ; 8.5 x 12.5 cm.

[Keith Webb]

This time with a "Washington".

Main Title: Super Fortress 'Waltzing Matilda', Garbutt, Townsville, October 1945 [picture]
Date: -/10/1949.
Description: 1 photograph : monochrome
Reference Number: 0001/0001049
Notes: Selected copies from the Hammer collection.
Negative held.
Credits: Photographer, Unknown.
Shelving Notes: Part of the Collection: HAMMER 1/3.
Restrictions on Use: Permission granted for public access and copying.
Subject: Aircraft
Aircraft (Super Fortress)
Military vehicles
Townsville
BRN: 118874

[Keith Webb]

I know we've seen this 6 seat utility before but I couldn't resist.

Title : Truck
Date of Work : 28/12/1950
Type of Material : Pictures
Frame order no. : Home and Away - 22506
Physical Description : Photographs - 1 film photonegative (copied from original nitrate photonegative) - 35 mm.
Notes : Taken for Jeff Keon.
Main Record : Hood Collection part I : Sydney streets, buildings, people, activities and events, c.1925-1955
Topic : armoured cars
garages (private)
trucks
Call no. : NCY47/423

[Keith Webb]

Title : Truck
Date of Work : 22/6/1953
Type of Material : Pictures
Frame order no. : Home and Away - 32829
Physical Description : Photographs - 1 film photonegative (copied from original nitrate photonegative) - 35 mm.
Notes : Taken for block, for RF Pearson
Main Record : Hood Collection part I : Sydney streets, buildings, people, activities and events, c.1925-1955
Topic : fences
trucks
Place : Sydney (N.S.W.)
Name : R.F. Pearson, motor trader (167 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
Call no. : NCY61/319

[Keith Webb]

Title : Truck
Date of Work : 28/12/1950
Type of Material : Pictures
Frame order no. : Home and Away - 22509
Physical Description : Photographs - 1 film photonegative (copied from original nitrate photonegative) - 35 mm.
Notes : Taken for Jeff Keon.
Main Record : Hood Collection part I : Sydney streets, buildings, people, activities and events, c.1925-1955
Topic : garages (private)
trucks
Call no. : NCY47/426

[Keith Webb]

Mission. View of truck and buildings.
DATE
195?
PHOTONO
PH0046/0066
CREATOR
T. Mann
COLLECTN
Mann Collection.
RIGHTS
Northern Territory Library and Information Service
LOCATION
Angurugu Groote Eylandt
SUBJECTS
Church of England Missions Church Missionary Society Buildings Motor-trucks Aborigines

[Keith Webb]

Fowler, Lyle,
Crane on truck, parked in paddock [picture] / Lyle Fowler.
Date(s) of creation: 1959-1960.
2 negatives : flexible base ; 20.3 x 25.4 cm. approx.

[jim sewell]

Thanks Keith for showing us that collection .
Very enjoyable , the picture of the convoy is a beauty.
Regards
Jim S.

[Keith Webb]

Title : Agriculture - Bulk trailer hitched to a 10 ton truck make a small convoy to haul wheat to the grain elevators in the Wimmera district of Victoria [photographic image] / photographer, Cliff Bottomley. 1 photographic negative: b&w, acetate
Date : 1958
Primary subject : AGRICULTURE
Secondary subject : WHEAT
Image no. : A1200, L25221
Barcode : 11657267
Location : Canberra
Find other items in this series : A1200
Series accession number : A1200/18

Try 15cwt.

[Keith Webb]

Title: Car of a Brisbane tourist being taken on a truck to Quilpie railhead, 1952
Location: Quilpie, Queensland
Date: 1952
Creator: Unknown
Description:
Quilpie is located 1010km west of Brisbane by road and 980km by rail and was proclaimed a town on the 29th April 1917. The township is situated on the western bank of the Bulloo River and is out of flood reach. Quilpie's importance is as a railhead. It is the centre from which cattle from the Channel Country and beyond are railed and in good seasons upwards of 60,000 cattle pass through the railhead. Sheep also pass through in large numbers. The opal is a very sought after commodity and the district is the home of the Boulder Opal.

Due to the town's location and it's low rainfall, Quilpie is intensely hot and dusty in summer. The temperature during January and February often exceeds 40 degrees celsius, while winters are mild. The town itself has a population of about 600 and its annual average rainfall is only approximately 300-500mm. (Information taken from: Quilpie Shire Council website, 2007, retrieved on 20 March 2007 from <http://www.quilpie.qld.gov.au/visito...e%20Info.shtml>)

Accession number: 90-3-12
Original format: copy print : b&w
Digital format: image/jpeg
Publisher: John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
Image number: 169825
Digital ID: picqld-citrix07--2007-03-21-07-54
Rights: This image is free of copyright restrictions. For further information http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/legals.htm
Source: Item is held by John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.

[Keith Webb]

Title : Ford truck
Date of Work : 8/1953
Type of Material : Pictures
Frame order no. : Home and Away - 32836
Physical Description : Photographs - 1 film photonegative (copied from original nitrate photonegative) - 35 mm.
Main Record : Hood Collection part I : Sydney streets, buildings, people, activities and events, c.1925-1955
Topic : Ford (trucks)
Place : Sydney (N.S.W.)
Name : R.F. Pearson, motor trader (167 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
Call no. : NCY61/326

[Keith Webb]

Originally posted by jim sewell
Thanks Keith for showing us that collection .
Very enjoyable , the picture of the convoy is a beauty.
Regards
Jim S.

Yes, it beats watching sport on TV!

Frank Hurley was one of our most significant photographers, covering among other things the Mawson expedition to Antarctica.

[Keith Webb]

Fowler, Lyle
North Broken Hill Exploration Department truck in warehouse interior [picture]
Date(s) of creation: [1963]
negative : flexible base ; 20.3 x 25.4 cm. approx.

[Tony Smith]

Originally posted by Keith Webb
nla.pic-an23566136
Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962.
Convoy of Allied military vehicles on a winding road, coast below, ca. 1940-1946 : (Barqah, Libya)

Just a quick pull on the handbrake and a reef on the steering wheel, and we'll take this thread off in a new direction.
The caption for this pic states it is Barqah, Libya (WW2 sp. Barce), but it is actually 100's of miles away, being the switchback hill above Sollum, Egypt. This hill features in many of the War Diaries of Nth Africa, as Sollum was the last town in Egypt before Allied troops "Crossed the Wire" into Libya.

Google Earth shows that the road is still pretty much as it was 67 years ago (Go to this spot on Google Earth, and just to the left (West!) you can still see the "Wire"!):

[jim sewell]

This would test the cooling systems of the trucks , I would be checking my brake fluid level and make sure she was running on all cylinders before tackling this hill.
Would also slip aboard a decent sized rock for the No 2 handbrake.

Regards
Jim S.

[Keith Webb]

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Title
... Lorry drivers attending to final details before the train moves off.
Subject
Australia. Army Transportation.
Subject
Military trucks -- Australia Railroads -- Freight -- cars
Image number
H99.201/2895
Format
photograph : gelatin silver ; 11.0 x 17.0 cm. approx.
Managed by
Item held by State Library of Victoria
Collection or series
IspartOf Argus newspaper collection of war photographs. World War II.
Date or place
[ca. 1942]
Rights
Reproduction rights: State Library of Victoria.

It's a nice pic of cab 12s - the camo pattern is unusual, and also the 'C' for Commonwealth is usually not painted onto the side panel, although seeing it on the number plate was normal for early cab 12s which this one, ARN 22735 clearly is.

[Keith Webb]

Unloading of veneer delivered by lorry picture
Date(s) of creation: [ca. 1946-ca. 1957]
photograph : gelatin silver ; 12.0 x 16.3 cm. approx.

[Keith Webb]

Note the double fuel tanks.

Title : Transport - Air - Furthest point on Station runs in the Kimberley [photographic image]. 1 photographic negative: b&w, acetate
Date : 1953
Primary subject : TRANSPORT
Secondary subject : AIR
Image no. : A1200, L15332
Barcode : 11960484
Location : Canberra
Find other items in this series : A1200
Series accession number : A1200/18

[aj.lec]

great images keith
keep them coming

[Keith Webb]

TITLE Troops of the '8th Docks' at a depot in New Guinea.
DESCRIPTION GENERAL: Troops of the '8th Docks' at a depot in New Guinea.
DATE ca.1945.

NB: This image (and all the others) are linked here as research, to satisfy that silly copyright notice on an image which is out of copyright.

[Keith Webb]

Title: Jeep shunting empty coal hoppers, Brisbane
Location: New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland
Date: 1942-1945
Creator: Unknown
Description: Jeep with railway wheels shunting empty coal hoppers at the Powerhouse, Brisbane during World War II. The American soldiers belong to the U.S. Army 81st Air Depot Group based in Eagle Farm.
Accession number: 88-11-35
Original format: copy print : b&w
Digital format: image/jpeg
Publisher: John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
Image number: 156780
Digital ID: picqld-2003-07-18-15-36
Rights: This image is free of copyright restrictions. For further information http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/legals.htm
Source: Item is held by John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.
Large image: http://enc.slq.qld.gov.au/slq/neg/re...00/156780r.jpg
The large image will be 4 times larger than the one on this page so may take some time to download
Subjects: army camps
four-wheel drive vehicles
soldiers
multiculturalism
Americans (United States)
Americans in Queensland
World War, 1939-1945

[Keith Webb]

Ordnance Corps of the Austalian Army [picture]
Date(s) of creation: [ca. 1940-ca. 1944]
10 photographs : gelatin silver ; 18.0 x 22.0 cm. approx. or smaller.
Reproduction rights: State Library of Victoria.
Accession Number: H98.105/3438
Image Number: an008222

[Keith Webb]

What's the device on the front of the Jeep?

Fifth United States Army Air Force Command Depot, located in northern area of Australia during World War II [picture]
Date(s) of creation: [ca. 1944]
7 photographs : gelatin silver ; each 10.0 x 12.0 cm. approx.
Reproduction rights: State Library of Victoria.
Accession Number: H98.104/4003
Image Number: an005529

PS Just found it...

Includes Australian and American ground crews working together on the outer starboard engine of a Liberator, l. to r.: Pfc. Frank Shively (Jamestown, Ls.), Lac. D. Mobbs (St. George, QLD.), Pte. David Goodman (Winchester, Mass.) and Lac. D. Higgins (Maryborough, QLD.); test blocks for trial runs to see if the overhauled engines operate satisfactorily; "magnetic jeep" picking up nails, wires etc. from camp roads, its designer, S/Sgt. W. Paul Cail at the wheel demonstrating its use to Australian Army mechanics; supply warehouse interior; Flying Fortress partially dismantled in one the large hangers; worker using steam hose to clean preservatives from Boston Havoc Bomber; F/O. Coles (Richmond, N.S.W.) with two American servicemen examining a new type of sling for hoisting of engines.

[Radek]

Hi, I thing this is for picku up the nail and another metal items from airport.
Radek

Originally posted by Keith Webb


What's the device on the front of the Jeep?




PS Just found it...

[Radek]

Originally posted by Radek
Hi, I thing this is for picku up the nail and another metal items from airport.
Radek