Thomas Draper Campbell (1893-1967)
Slides and papers

MSS 301.2994 C191s

Series 1. Slides relating to Central Australian aborigines and the related prints (restricted)
(Glass slides housed in archive box; photographic prints in album)

Titles from those written on boxes by Professor Campbell. Numbers allocated by the Library.

[Box 5] Sacred places
9 slides, 9 prints

• D.C. (Campbell)
• Old Willywagtail women [ie woman] Palm Valley
• Simpson Gap, Central Australia
• Mr Gillen, Central Australia (C.P. Mountford 19/3/1912?)
• Down of Grub ancestor, Emily Gap

 

[Box 6] Death and burial
8 slides, 8 prints

• One annotated B.A.R.

 

[Box 7] B.A.R. Expedition 1927 [=Board of Anthropological Research]
11 unlabelled unnumbered slides, 9 prints

• Scenes and portraits

 

[Box 8] B.A.R. Expedition 1927 [=Board of Anthropological Research]
8 unlabelled unnumbered slides, 8 prints

• 7 of Aboriginal peoples, 1 stone implements

 

[Box 13] Australian ceremonials
4 slides, 4 prints

• 4 slides of notes to accompany slides, some labelled Social System & Ceremonis

 

[Box 14] Australian ceremonials
8 slides, 8 prints

• Tjurunga Cave, Tomkinson R.
• Twitingalla

 

[Box 15] Australian ceremonials
8 slides, 10 prints

 

[Box 16] Australian ceremonials
9 slides, 9 prints

 

[Box 17] Australian ceremonials
12 slides, 16 prints

• Black snake
• Atinga

 

[Box 18] Australian ceremonials
13 slides, 18 prints (some duplicated)

• 40 widdos

 

[Box 19] Australian ceremonials
11 slides, 11 prints
Most photographs are of unrelated subjects eg scenes from Europe, portraits of English scientists, and man with lycanthropy e.g.

• Map on Lake Callabonna & District (C.W. Woolridge, Unley)
• Mechanics building
• North Hall
• Amphitheatre
• [Unnamed portrait] (W. Brear, Optician, Adelaide)
• Unnamed building
• Alfred Russel Wallace, LLD etc (W. Brear, Optician, Adelaide)
• Darwin (W. Brear, Optician, Adelaide)
• 3 scenes of countryside and Aborigines

 

[Box 21] Unlabelled
9 slides, 9 prints

• Fire
• Tuitgingalla

 

[Box 22] Loose slides
14 slides, 14 prints

• Mixed scenes of Aborigines
• [?] of green twigs
• Tarcoola district sun totem decoration

 

Additional slides

• Unlabelled slide and print
• ‘Slides and prints identified as sacred 1’ (8 slides, 2 prints)
• ‘Slides and prints identified as sacred 2’ (9 slides, 9 prints)
• ‘Slides and prints identified as sacred 1’ (6 slides, 6 prints)