Guide to the Wilfred Burchett Photographic Archive, 1940-1980
PIC/15827
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
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Series. Miscellaneous Indochina articles, transcripts, maps and correspondence, 1966-1980s
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The C.I.A. and Nixon's Peace Plan, The Nixon Nightmare, The Nixon Plan and Indochina Realities, DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), Cambodia, US and Laos, nuclear weapons and Vietnam, 1966-1970s (File 1) - Box 1
Press cuttings, letters.
South Vietnamese National Front of Liberation, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, United States and Vietnam War, 1966-1970s (File 2) - Box 1
Press cuttings, letters.
Paris talks and Vietnam War, How the Korean War was settled, Bombing for Peace, Cambodia Independence Day 1970, Papering over the cracks in South Vietnam, De Gaulle and U.S. aggression in Indochina, 1966-1970s (File 3) - Box 1
Press cuttings, letters.
Roots of a War, Cambodia's Ordeal, President Reagan at Midterm - the National Security State, The capture of Phu My Hung Post, Forward - Catapult to Freedom, Footnotes - Hiroshima Today, 1960s-1980s (File 4) - Box 1
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Series. USSR and miscellaneous images, 1950s-1980s
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Danube Delta, Miscellaneous in Murmansk, Famille & autre, Bertrand Russell trial, Sartre, 1960s-1970s (File 6) - Box 2
Black and white prints, negatives.
Famille - Portugal and others, Algeria, Cairo, Egypt, 1960s-1970s (File 7) - Box 14
Black and white negatives and colour negatives.
USSR, Hungary, 'Le Figaro' - includes Burchett in Vietnam(?), Sariwon chicken factory, Comrade Wilfrid Burchett, Hotel "Dan Chu" avec les amities de Pham Huy Thong 4/1977, Egypt - Cairo, Peter - Peking, 1960s-1970s (File 8) - Box 2
Black and white prints.
Bandung 1955, Comrade W. Burchett, assorted business cards ; Burchett's press pass to United Nations dated 11 Dec 1968, Dormobile trip, Singles, personalities, women, 1950s-1960s (File 9) - Box 2
Black and white prints, contact sheets.
Comrade W. Burchett, Portugal, May Day, VC propaganda photos, 1960s? (File 10) - Box 14
Black and white negatives, contact sheet.
Burchette - 40F', 'Burchette - 288' - Vietnam?, 'Documents of the United NLF-groups in Sweden' booklet, Wilfred, Mao, Kruschev?, Wilfred avec Chefs d'Blat, Grand Pere George, 1960s (File 11) - Box 3
Black and white prints.
Wilfred avec Chefs d'Blat, Corsica contacts - Smith, Roerbach, 1960s-1980s (File 12) - Box 3
Black and white prints.
USSR - Come East Young Man, Titon family, Roberti and Burchett, Ms Thy, Ban a Phi, UUFO, Mr George Burchett presenting Yuri Gagarin with a boomerang on behalf of Australian peace workers, 1960s-1980s (File 13) - Box 3
Black and white prints, negatives.
Sihanouk, Phnom Penh, Chou en Lai, Corsica, Corse, K2, Kampuchea road people, POW exchange, Cambodian road people, beginning new life, elections Phnom Penh, 1980s? (File 14) - Box 14
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Cambodia 1980 - life returns Phnom Penh, PP victim photos, river fishing, big fish, two men, on the road, killing fields, Driver Phuong, Cambodia kids, WB [dance?] performance, peasants in fields, torture chambers, Phnom Penh, Cambodia/Vietnam border 1978? 1980? Girl with scar, Cambodia-Vietnam Border, Phi Lai, Tam Buu, 1980 (File 15) - Box 14
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Series. China, 1960s-1970s
Tachai housing, Yangtze Gorges, PLA - earth moving trucks, Harbin handicrafts, Yangtze - captain - Burchett and gorges, boats, Tachai personalities, Something from nothing, village, min. lost portraits, Peking, street committee, Taching drillers and wheat, women, well, watchers, 1973 (File 16) - Box 14
Black and white negatives.
Tachai housing, Yangtze Gorges, PLA - earth moving trucks, Harbin handicrafts, Yangtze - captain - Burchett and gorges, boats, Tachai personalities, Something from nothing, village, min. lost portraits, Peking, street committee, Taching drillers and wheat, women, well, watchers, 1973 (File 17) - Box 4
Black and white prints.
China 1972, Tachai, RFC, Kabul 1980, Japan - anti-war demonstration, Minamata, Cuba 1967/76, Nanking, Nanking observatory and S.Y. Sen memorial park, Monique and Chiang Ching, China 1972 - wheelbarrow tax, stone cutters, District opera (Linhsien) spectacle, 1967-1980 (File 18) - Box 15
Colour slides.
Yangtze bridge, Tachai (TA), Harbin arts and crafts, Portugal Carnations / good general interest (China), Peitaho - Rewi and self - Korean commune, Ch'king steel, rice, commune, Ch'king fishing, Szechuan - Chungking, pandas, Saco, Chungking, auto, lights factory, Yangtze Gorges, Peking minorities and arts and crafts,, 1972-1974 (File 19) - Box 15
Colour slides.
Sha Shi Yu, commune, anti-3-wastes, Chou Sin, Jade carving - Shanghai 1972, Yangtze Bridge, Nanking, 179th Div - Nanking N Unit, boat on Sungari, China RFC, Shanghai docks and Whampoa and Wei-groups, Candy factory Shanghai ; Tsinghua serve people, China - Korean minority, Yangtze Gorges, Transport (China), Shan Hai Kuan - start of Great Wall, 1972 (File 20) - Box 15
Colour slides.
Series. Vietnam, 1970s-1980s
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Portugal, Africa, Mekong Delta Village, catapult grenade launcher, local committee, Victory parade, Ho Chi Minh, 2 September 1975, Victory celebrations Ho-ville (2); commemoration meetings Hanoi,, 1970s (File 21) - Box 16
Colour slides. Some captioned. Includes Can Tho river, resistance village, My Tho pagoda, Can Tho armoured cars, women's militia, local kids, Mekong Delta village guerrillas, My Tho militant.
Destruction Langson, return Chinese POWs Langson, Chinese Resistance family, Can Tho; Saigon market, street scenes, waterfront; Saigon bicycles, market and streets ; Hanoi selection, bicycles and peace tet; My Thos Pagoda and Bonze, Resistance Village, Welcomes Journalists, River Scenes; Can Tho villagers, personalities, village beauty; Tanks, river 1978-1980?; Langson; Chinese POWs, Langson; Langson Pass, Destruction City, 1970s-1980s (File 22) - Box 16
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Release US pilots, Gia Lam airport, Chinese pilot and MIG-19; Henri de Turenne team en route Dien Bien Phu ; Burchett on road to Dien Bien Phu; General Vo Nguyen Giap, Hanoi, November 1981, Va Quock Uy, Ten That Tung; Miscellaneous group photos and Burchett, on Dien Bien Phu and Mekong visits; Can Tho River scenes and airport; Vietnam Project Team, Approaches Danawar Hur, Tanks and Temples; Ben Hai to Mekong, Catapult Villagers, Road, River Scenes, Basket Boats (1); Coffee and rubber, Ban Me Thuot; Vietnam project team, Ben Hai to Mekong, road scenes, tanks etc. Elizabeth, 1970s-1980s (File 23) - Box 16
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Series. North Vietnam, 1960s-1970s
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Contact sheets 100-400 ; 1000 ; 2000 ; 3000 - Hanoi ; 4000 - Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Vo Nguyen Giap, Pham Van Dong, 1960s (File 26) - Box 4
Black and white contact sheets. Black and white prints.
Wilfred Burchett, Ho Chi Minh, Vo Nguyen Giap and Pham Van Dong in Geneva, 1950s? (File 27) - Box 4
Black and white contact sheets. Black and white prints.
Vietnam, 1956-1960s (File 28) - Box 4
Black and white prints. Includes two portraits of unidentified figures inscribed to Vessa Burchett, and various portraits of Wilfred Burchett at work in Vietnam. Handwritten label on original envelope hard to read.
Includes portrait of Burchett wearing pith helmet beside movie camera ; portrait of Pham Van Dong and others ; portrait of unidentified figures, 1960s? (File 29) - Box 4
Black and white prints. Prints stamped with "Copyright by Photo Pic, 21, Avenue du Maine, Paris-15e - Lit. 93-14 - mention obligatoire".
War scenes, including some in Laos, 1960s? (File 30) - Box 4
Black and white prints. Mostly unidentified. Original envelope marked "Not by WB".
Vietnam 1978 and Vietnam film project 1981, 1978, 1981 (File 31) - Box 4
Black and white prints. Includes Nguyen Huu Tho 78 ; Pham Van Dong Dec 1978 ; Mme Binh ; Mme Binh and fields ; fields and boats and kids in river ; Burchett with ? orphans contact ; Cambodia frontier Dec 1978 ; Saigon River re-education ; Re-education.
Vietnam North - militia and bombed pagoda, 2000-8000, 1960s? (File 33) - Box 5
Black and white prints.
Series. Cambodia, Angola, Mozambique, Portugal
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Portugal Communist Party, Angola, Mozambique, Petition signed by Sartre re denial by Australian government of Wilfred Burchett's passport, Portraits of Fidel Castro, Kampuchea, Cambodia, Pol Pot regime, 1970s (File 37) - Box 5
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Series. North of the 17th parallel, Mekong upstream, Cambodia-Laos, 1954-1956
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Vietnam - early visit Dien Bien Phu, Laos, Laos - interiors, Vientiane market, Sihanouk and Sangkum, Mekong upstream: Cambodia - Chou En Lai, Angkor, Chou Sihanok, Great Lake, Pochentong, Siem Reap, Hanoi street scenes, Cac and land reform, ploughing Dien Bien Phu, Thai girls, bamboo raft, Baie D'Along (Halong Bay), Vietnam, 1954-1956 (File 45) - Box 18
Black and white negatives. Includes: Factory and Maternity Hospital ; Minority Villages - advanced co-ops, Dien Bien Phu, National Assembly, dam site etc., Chou En Lai, P.V. Dong - Hanoi. T&T and temples, our Hanoi house.
Laos, Vientiane market, On way to Laos - transit camps, Sihanouk and Sangkum, Mekong upstream: Cambodia - Chou En Lai, Angkor, Chou Sihanok, Great Lake, Pochentong, Siem Reap, Hanoi street scenes, Cac and land reform, ploughing Dien Bien Phu, Thai girls, bamboo raft, Baie D'Along (Halong Bay), Vietnam, 1954-1956 (File 46) - Box 7
Black and white contact sheets. Includes: Factory and Maternity Hospital ; Minority Villages - advanced co-ops, Dien Bien Phu, National Assembly, dam site etc., Chou En Lai, P.V. Dong - Hanoi. T&T and temples, our Hanoi house.
Poulo Condor returnees, Land reform - Vietnam, Laos - with Pathet Lao, Laos or on road to Laos, North of the 17th, 1954-1956 (File 47) - Box 18
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Poulo Condor returnees, Land reform - Vietnam, Pathet Lao, North of the 17th parallel, Chou En Lai and Sihanouk, 1970 (File 48) - Box 7
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17th Parallel - Vietnam - fields, factory, Wilfred Burchett with others, 1954-1956 (File 49) - Box 7
Black and white negatives.
17th Parallel - Vietnam - fields, factory, Wilfred Burchett with others, 17th Parallel illustrations, Pathet Lao battle, Laos, 1971 (File 50) - Box 8
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Rowi album, 1950s (File 51) - Box 8
Black and white negatives and contact sheets. Includes Indonesia, bouts on Black River, Binh Dinh ferry crossing, boat scenes, woman ploughing, road Dien Bien Phu, ferry crossing, Baie D'Along (Halong Bay), planting out rice, opening Hanoi railway, outdoor meeting, portraits Ho and Mao, accusation meetings, visit Cambodia frontier.
Series. Korea, China, Japan, 1940s-1970s
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Japan May 1977, Japan - Minamata disease, DPRK 10.81, Indeterminé - Corea? [i.e.. Korea], Peking women's day, Hong Kong ; Macau ; Cape Schank, Hobart and Mildura (Australia) ; Deepwater Bay (Hong Kong), 1970s (File 53) - Box 18
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Kyodo News Photos - includes Burchett with Utahashi and Nakamura ; Hiroshima - Aioi Bridge, dome, Park of Peace 1946-47, Japan - includes some Hiroshima ; Minamata victims, Deepwater Bay (Hong Kong), 1945~1970s? (File 54) - Box 8
Black and white prints.
Photos Coree [i.e.. Korea] + Wilfred et sec passport, North Korea Victory celebrations - Fatherland Liberation War and Kim Il Sung, Korea, 1965 (File 59) - Box 10
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Series. Angola, Mozambique, Portugal
Angola, Huambo etc. ; Benguela Lobito Silva Porto, Angola coffee ; MPLA demos, Angola corpses portraits ; returnees Lubango, Alentejo (Portugal) cork harvesting, no hunting-fishing, Hiroshima monument maquette, Portugal - Carnation Revolution, Portugal, Portugal - Alentejo, 1970s (File 60) - Box 19
Colour slides.
Angola, Huambo etc. ; Benguela Lobito Silva Porto, Angola coffee ; MPLA demos, Angola corpses portraits ; returnees Lubango, Alentejo (Portugal) cork harvesting, no hunting-fishing, Hiroshima monument maquette, Portugal - Carnation Revolution, Portugal, Portugal - Alentejo
Series. South Vietnam, 1960s-1970s
Second visit NLF - includes NFL ; NL bazooka ; FNL Jolie fille avec grand fusil [i.e.. pretty girl with big gun] ; NFL women and trenches ; bridge crossing ; NFL harvest ; man portrait, destroyed village ; pigs ; Burchett with FNL SVN ; unidentified colour negatives - rice harvest? Tai Nguyen negs, 1960s-1970s (File 64) - Box 19
Black and white and colour negatives, slides.