Walter Alfred Bock collection, Papua New Guinea, ca. 1910-1956 [picture]
- Bib ID:
- 3044685
- Format:
- Picture
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. PIC/8126/10-56 LOC Album 1027 copy
- Description:
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- ca. 1910-1956
- 49 photographs : b&w ; 24.6 x 29.5 cm. and smaller.
- 9 negatives : nitrate ; 13.8 x 8.5 cm.
- Summary:
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Photographs of Papua New Guinea, its people and industries including: rubber plantations, sisal hemp plantations; Bank of New South Wales, Port Moresby, 1950s; missionarys' houses or rest houses; a joss house; native huts; Papuan sing-sings; Rabaul; Port Moresby; colonial administrators; Government Printing Office and staff; social life and clubs; royal visits; aerial photographs.
- Biography/History:
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Walter Alfred Bock was the government printer in Papua New Guinea for approximately 30 years from 1934. Bock was involved with the printing of the "Papuan villager", a newsletter in English for native Papuans, published from 1929 to 1941.
- Notes:
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- Condition: Variable, good/fair.
- Nitrate negatives stored in the nitrate store.
- PIC/8126/10-56 LOC Album 1027 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-147285520
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Bock, Walter Alfred
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
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