Guide to the Walter Burke collection

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P768

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: 2023

Collection Summary

Creator
Burke FRPS, Walter, 1866 -1954
Title
Walter Burke collection, 1894-1915
Date Range
1895 - 1933
Collection Number
P768
Extent
68 items 17 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm; 17 negatives : glass, b&w ; 6 x 4 cm; 16 slides : glass, lantern, b&w ; 8 x 8 cm; 18 slides : stereograph, b&w ; 4.5 x 10.5 cm.
Language of Materials
English
Repository
Special Collections (Pictures)

Introduction

Scope and Contents

Photographic prints include scenes in New Zealand, Fiji and one of Canberra. The negatives include images of skiers in Kosciusko and images of the Gallipoli campaign (1915). The lantern slides include images of Fiji, New Zealand and Samoa. The stereographs includes scenes in Australia, New Zealand and New York.

Conditions Governing Access

Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn421150).

Conditions Governing Use

Conditions for copying and publishing of this collection may apply, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn421150).

Biographical / Historical

Walter Burke was born in New Zealand and worked in the postal service. He came to Australia with his wife and family (including his son Keast Burke) in 1904. He was a keen photographer, becoming F.R.P.S. in 1896. He was active in the Photographic Society of New South Wales, edited the Australasian Photo-review and ran an advertising agency.

Item Descriptions

Glass lantern slides (File)

16 items,

Boat on the water, Suva, Fiji, approximately 1900 (Item P768/1) - Box 1

1 item, 8 x 8 cm, slide : glass, lantern, black and white

Agrimony albiflorous, the white prickly poppy, New Zealand? approximately 1900 (Item P768/2) - Box 1

1 item, 8 x 8 cm, slide : glass, lantern, black and white

People in row boats, Suva, Fiji, approximately 1900 (Item P768/3) - Box 1

1 item, 8 x 8 cm, slide : glass, lantern, black and white

Mount Cook, New Zealand, approximately 1900 (Item P768/4) - Box 1

1 item, 8 x 8 cm, slide : glass, lantern, black and white

Horseshoe Hill, Canterbury, New Zealand, approximately 1920 (Item P768/5) - Box 1

1 item, 8 x 8 cm, slide : glass, lantern, black and white

People at the harbour, Suva, Fiji, approximately 1900, 1 (Item P768/6) - Box 1

1 item, 8 x 8 cm, slide : glass, lantern, black and white

People at the harbour, Suva, Fiji, approximately 1900, 2 (Item P768/7) - Box 1

1 item, 8 x 8 cm, slide : glass, lantern, black and white

Barrels being towed on tracks at Suva Wharf, Suva, Fiji, approximately 1900 (Item P768/8) - Box 1

1 item, 8 x 8 cm, slide : glass, lantern, black and white

Man leaning against a tree near the Kosciusko Chalet, New South Wales, approximately 1916 (Item P768/28) - Box 1A (P768)

1 item, 11 x 8 cm, slide : glass, lantern, black and white

Three boys making food in a trough in front of a straw hut, Fiji, approximately 1920 (Item P768/29) - Box 1A (P768)

1 item, 11 x 8 cm, slide : glass, lantern, black and white

A N Constabulary parade in Suva, Fiji, approximately 1920 (Item P768/30) - Box 1A (P768)

1 item, 11 x 8 cm, slide : glass, lantern, black and white

Vendors at a market, Apia, Samoa, approximately 1920 (Item P768/31) - Box 1A (P768)

1 item, 11 x 8 cm, slide : glass, lantern, black and white

Men in boats travelling to the gangway in Apia, Samoa, approximately 1920 (Item P768/32) - Box 1A (P768)

1 item, 11 x 8 cm, slide : glass, lantern, black and white

Two men sitting in a wooden wagon while three boys push the wagon along a dirt road in Levuka, Fiji, approximately 1920 (Item P768/33) - Box 1A (P768)

1 item, 11 x 8 cm, slide : glass, lantern, black and white

Wood and straw house boat on a beach in Suva, Fiji, approximately 1920 (Item P768/34) - Box 1A (P768)

1 item, 11 x 8 cm, slide : glass, lantern, black and white

People waiting for food on a beach in Suva, Fiji, approximately 1920 (Item P768/35) - Box 1A (P768)

1 item, 11 x 8 cm, slide : glass, lantern, black and white

Photographs (File)

17 items,

Fern in a forest?, Suva, Fiji, approximately 1920 (Item P768/9) - Piece PIC Drawer PM 6587 #P768/9

1 item, 20 x 25 cm, photograph : black and white

Mount Cook at twelve hundred and forty-nine feet, New Zealand, approximately 1900 (Item P768/10) - Piece PIC Drawer PM 6588 #P768/10

1 item, 20 x 25 cm, photograph : black and white

Storm, Mount Tasman, New Zealand, approximately 1900 (Item P768/11) - Piece PIC Drawer PM 6589 #P768/11

1 item, 20 x 25 cm, photograph : black and white

Warrior Te Waaka Tamaira in ceremonial dress, New Zealand, 1901 (Item P768/12) - Piece PIC Drawer PM 6590 #P768/12

1 item, 20 x 25 cm, photograph : black and white

Woman at the window of 'Talking', Runanga, New Zealand, approximately 1900 (Item P768/13) - Piece PIC Drawer PM 6591 #P768/13

1 item, 20 x 25 cm, photograph : black and white

Icicles dripping from leaves, New Zealand, approximately 1900 (Item P768/14) - Piece PIC Drawer PM 6592 #P768/14

1 item, 20 x 25 cm, photograph : black and white

Buller Gorge, New Zealand, approximately 1900 (Item P768/15) - Piece PIC Drawer PM 6593 #P768/15

1 item, 20 x 25 cm, photograph : black and white

Aorangi Mount Cook, New Zealand, approximately 1900 (Item P768/16) - Piece PIC Drawer PM 6594 #P768/16

1 item, 20 x 25 cm, photograph : black and white

Sutherland Falls, New Zealand, approximately 1900 (Item P768/17) - Piece PIC Drawer PM 6595 #P768/17

1 item, 20 x 25 cm, photograph : black and white

Maori wood carvings, New Zealand, approximately 1900 (Item P768/18) - Piece PIC Drawer PM 6596 #P768/18

1 item, 20 x 25 cm, photograph : black and white

Tomb of Napoleon's nephew, Port Macquarie, Australia, approximately 1900 (Item P768/19) - Piece PIC Drawer PM 6597 #P768/19

1 item, 20 x 25 cm, photograph : black and white

Egg of the extinct Moa, New Zealand, 1899 (Item P768/20) - Piece PIC Drawer PM 6598 #P768/20

1 item, 50 x 60, photograph : black and white

Maori greeting, Whakarewarewa, North island, New Zealand, 1901 (Item P768/21) - Piece PIC Drawer PM 6599 #P768/21

1 item, 50 x 60, photograph : black and white

Timber industry workers, New Zealand, 1895 (Item P768/22) - Piece PIC Drawer PM 6600 #P768/22

1 item, 50 x 60, photograph : black and white

Cattle and timber industry workers, New Zealand, 1895 (Item P768/23) - Piece PIC Drawer PM 6601 #P768/23

1 item, 50 x 60, photograph : black and white

Peter Pan statue, Kensington Gardens, London, England, approximately 1930 (Item P768/24) - Piece PIC Drawer PM 6602 #P768/24

1 item, 50 x 60, photograph : black and white

Canberra our capital city, Canberra, Australia, 1933 (Item P768/25) - Piece PIC Drawer PM 6603 #P768/25

1 item, 50 x 60, photograph : black and white

Glass negatives (File)

17 items,

Three skiers in front of the Kosciusko Chalet, New South Wales, approximately 1916, 1 (Item P768/26) - Box 1

1 item, 11 x 8 cm, negative : glass

Three skiers in front of the Kosciusko Chalet, New South Wales, approximately 1916, 2 (Item P768/27) - Box 1

1 item, 11 x 8 cm, negative : glass

Australian soldiers in a dirt trench in Gallipoli, Turkey, approximately 1915 (Item P768/36) - Box 1

1 item, 6 x 4 cm, negative : glass

Soldiers with supplies and sand bags in a camp in Gallipoli, Turkey, approximately 1915 (Item P768/37) - Box 1

1 item, 6 x 4 cm, negative : glass

Town on the side of a hill near Gallipoli, Turkey, approximately 1915 (Item P768/38) - Box 1

1 item, 6 x 4 cm, negative : glass

Two unidentified soldiers standing on top of a hill in Gallipoli, Turkey, approximately 1915 (Item P768/39) - Box 1

1 item, 6 x 4 cm, negative : glass

Officer standing on rocks at a beach while soldiers move supplies from wooden boats in Gallipoli, Turkey, approximately 1915 (Item P768/40) - Box 1

1 item, 6 x 4 cm, negative : glass

Soldiers fixing a wooden pier in Gallipoli, Turkey, approximately 1915 (Item P768/41) - Box 1

1 item, 6 x 4 cm, negative : glass

Soldiers assisting wounded soldiers in a trench in Gallipoli, Turkey, approximately 1915 (Item P768/42) - Box 1

1 item, 6 x 4 cm, negative : glass

Four soldiers at a campsite on top of a hill in Gallipoli, Turkey, approximately 1915 (Item P768/43) - Box 1

1 item, 6 x 4 cm, negative : glass

Soldiers on top of each other in a trench in Gallipoli, Turkey, approximately 1915 (Item P768/44) - Box 1

1 item, 6 x 4 cm, negative : glass

Solider smoking a cigarette in a trench in Gallipoli, Turkey, approximately 1915 (Item P768/45) - Box 1

1 item, 6 x 4 cm, negative : glass

Campsite on the beach in Gallipoli, Turkey, approximately 1915 (Item P768/46) - Box 1

1 item, 6 x 4 cm, negative : glass

Soldiers landing on shore in wooden boats near three unidentified soldiers on the beach, Gallipoli, Turkey, approximately 1915 (Item P768/47) - Box 1

1 item, 6 x 4 cm, negative : glass

Unidentified officer standing in a trench made of sand bags in Gallipoli, Turkey, approximately 1915 (Item P768/48) - Box 1

1 item, 6 x 4 cm, negative : glass

Two unidentified soldiers standing next to supplies in Gallipoli, Turkey, approximately 1915 (Item P768/49) - Box 1

1 item, 6 x 4 cm, negative : glass

Australian soldiers loading supplies onto a beach from wooden boats in Gallipoli, Turkey, approximately 1915 (Item P768/50) - Box 1

1 item, 6 x 4 cm, negative : glass

Stereograph slides (File)

18 items,

MT Sefton looking north east from Sebastopol, New Zealand, approximately 1900 (Item P768/51) - Box 1

1 item, 10.5 x 4.5 cm, slide : black and white, stereograph

Ice capped mountains, New Zealand?, approximately 1900, 1 (Item P768/52) - Box 1

1 item, 10.5 x 4.5 cm, slide : black and white, stereograph

Two unidentified men and women looking at a coastal town from the top of a hill, Australia?, approximately 1900 (Item P768/53) - Box 1

1 item, 10.5 x 4.5 cm, slide : black and white, stereograph

Two unidentified men riding in a car on a wooden pier, Australia?, approximately 1900 (Item P768/54) - Box 1

1 item, 10.5 x 4.5 cm, slide : black and white, stereograph

Ice capped mountains, New Zealand?, approximately 1900, 2 (Item P768/55) - Box 1

1 item, 10.5 x 4.5 cm, slide : black and white, stereograph

Time Square?, New York, approximately 1900 (Item P768/56) - Box 1

1 item, 10.5 x 4.5 cm, slide : black and white, stereograph

Rock formation, Australia, approximately 1900 (Item P768/57) - Box 1

1 item, 10.5 x 4.5 cm, slide : black and white, stereograph

Two unidentified men having tea in the bush, Australia, approximately 1900 (Item P768/58) - Box 1

1 item, 10.5 x 4.5 cm, slide : black and white, stereograph

Unidentified man taking a photo of a Chinese dragon statue, Australia?, approximately 1900 (Item P768/59) - Box 1

1 item, 10.5 x 4.5 cm, slide : black and white, stereograph

Unidentified man and women looking down a cliff edge, Australia?, approximately 1900 (Item P768/60) - Box 1

1 item, 10.5 x 4.5 cm, slide : black and white, stereograph

Ice capped mountains, New Zealand?, approximately 1900, 3 (Item P768/61) - Box 1

1 item, 10.5 x 4.5 cm, slide : black and white, stereograph

Man bush walking, Australia, approximately 1900 (Item P768/62) - Box 1

1 item, 10.5 x 4.5 cm, slide : black and white, stereograph

Wentworth Falls, New South Wales, approximately 1900 (Item P768/63) - Box 1

1 item, 10.5 x 4.5 cm, slide : black and white, stereograph

Bottle tree, Queensland, approximately 1900 (Item P768/64) - Box 1

1 item, 10.5 x 4.5 cm, slide : black and white, stereograph

People watching a building that is on fire in Macquarie, New South Wales, approximately 1900 (Item P768/65) - Box 1

1 item, 10.5 x 4.5 cm, slide : black and white, stereograph

People at Martin Place, New South Wakes, approximately 1900 (Item P768/66) - Box 1

1 item, 10.5 x 4.5 cm, slide : black and white, stereograph

Two unidentified men standing next to another man taking a photograph near snow capped mountains, New Zealand?, approximately 1900 (Item P768/67) - Box 1

1 item, 10.5 x 4.5 cm, slide : black and white, stereograph

Man taking a photo in the bush, Australia, approximately 1900 (Item P768/68) - Box 1

1 item, 10.5 x 4.5 cm, slide : black and white, stereograph

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