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Homestead & Habitat: Central and Northern Australia
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Pearce
Brisbane: Howard Pearce, 2016.A privately published survey of the historic heritage of central and northern Australia, structured by the river systems and landforms of the regions in which Howard Pearce worked for over forty years as a heritage adviser to federal, state and Territory governments. The work combines photography, architectural drawing, historical archaeology and regional history. Volume I covers Lake Eyre, the Centre and the Top End; Volume II the Channel Country, Carpentaria and Cape York. The publication states that over 600 places are described across thirty chapters, with some 2000 colour photographs, site histories, archaeological notes and architectural descriptions, most based on primary research. Historical photographs from the author’s own collection are included, together with his measured drawings of significant places. Pearce published a third supplementary volume of measured architectural drawings in 2020. Physical copies unrecorded in Trove and OCLC; the University of Queensland holds a digital copy in its eSpace repository.
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Killalpaninna Mission & Habitat: A Photographic Record of Bethesda Aboriginal Mission Station on Cooper Creek
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Pearce
Brisbane: Howard Pearce, 2022.“In the summer of 1866-67 the Hermannsburg Mission Society in Germany, in conjunction with the synods of the South Australian Lutheran Church, attempted to establish a mission for the Aborigines on Cooper Creek in return for their kindness to John King, a survivor of the Burke and Wills expedition. During the same period, the German Moravian Brethren Mission Society in Victoria also undertook to begin mission work in the district. Both orders were pursuing a policy of segregating newly-contacted groups of Aborigines on church-run missions where their conversion to Christianity could be achieved away from the influence of ‘bush blacks’ and white settlers. However, through ignorance, drought and religious dissent, the missions failed to flourish and were abandoned. The Moravian Brethren departed for good, but the Lutherans regrouped and returned to the district to continue their struggle. This book contains a unique collection of dry-plate glass negative images, taken by August Hermann Vogelsang while employed as the school teacher at Bethesda Lutheran mission on Cooper Creek between the years 1907 and 1917. The images have been carefully researched and described by the author with the advice and guidance of former mission residents. This is a record of the last years of Bethesda mission station at Lake Killalpaninna in the far-north salt lake country of South Australia.” (from jacket blurb) Privately published in a very limited number by the author based on his 1980 report submitted to the South Australian Aboriginal and Historic Relics Unit. Unrecorded in Trove and OCLC.