"Kimberley Country"

Place Oceania: Australia, Western Australia, Kimberley
Accession Number P08151.020.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Western Australia, Kimberley
Date made 1911-1912
Conflict Period 1910-1919
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Local vegetation in the Kimberley Region. This photograph was most likely taken by Charles Price Conigrave, leader of the Kimberley Exploring Expedition in 1911-1912, who subsequently sold botanical specimens and copies of his photographs to offset expedition expenses. One of a series of photographs collected by Roy Cecil Phillipps (later Squadron Leader R.C Phillipps MC & Bar DFC) when employed by the pastoralist firm Connor, Doherty & Durack Ltd in the Kimberley region of Western Australia from 1912 until his enlistment in the AIF in April 1915. The photographs were sent to his mother in Perth, Mrs Cecil R. Phillipps, who arranged them in an album.