Small side bound photograph album with thick polished woodgrain covers to front and back; black ink stamped or painted? image on front cover depicting two men with two camels walking with a palm tree to the left; back cover with stamped or painted black ink word 'JERUSALEM'. Left bound edge has burgundy coloured fabric covering with two painted brown metal eyelets and secured with a thick brown twine, knotted and tied at back. Black and white portrait of soldier, album owner, Raymond Stafford Johnson in World War Two, Australian Army uniform adhered to inside front cover. The album contains twenty black card pages interleaved with tissue paper making up forty pages for mounting photographs. Inside back cover has two small black and white photographs adhered; left hand photograph of Raymond Stafford Johnson in full kit army uniform including metal 'Tommy' hat, haversack, gas breathing apparatus in pack, drink flask and food container; right hand side photograph of Mavis Higgins standing with Raymond Johnson in his army uniform. First page of album is inscribed in white ink block handwritten letters slanting upwards from left to right 'TO/MY DARLING MAVIS/WITH LOVE/ FROM RAY/ 1941-42.' Photographs adhered to pages with black, silver edged paper photo corners; white ink handwritten inscriptions for each photo; second page photograph of 'JERUSALEM VIEW'; third page two photographs 'WAILING WALL' and 'DOME OF THE ROCK./MOSQUE OMAR'; fourth page two photographs 'VIA De LOWSA.' and 'STREET IN OLD CITY'; fifth page two photographs 'MOSQUE OMAR' and 'TEMPLE AREA'; sixth page two photographs 'ST. STEPHEN'S GATE' and 'JAFFA GATE'; seventh page two photographs 'ZION GATE' and 'NEW GATE'; eighth page two photographs 'DAMASCUS GATE' and 'STONE OF ANNUNCIATION.'; ninth page one photograph 'BETHLEHAM/THE MANGER'; tenth page two photographs 'STARS' and 'ENTRANCE TO CAVE'; eleventh page two photographs of 'COLONADE' and 'RACHEL'S TOMB.'; twelth page two photographs of 'CHURCH OF NATIVITY. (EXT). and 'GENERAL VIEW'; thirteenth page one photograph 'NAZARETH./CHURCH OF ANNUNCIATION.'; fourteenth page blank; fifteenth page blank; sixteenth page two photographs 'MARY'S WELL' and 'THE HOME OF THE HOLY FAMILY.'; seventeenth page two photographs 'ALTAR' and 'CHURCH OF ST. JOSEPH.'; eighteenth page two photographs 'C. of. ST. JOSEPH (EXT.)' and 'GRAVE'; nineteenth page one photograph 'HAIFA/BUSINESS CENTRE'; twentieth page two photographs 'PANORAMA' and 'THE BAY'; twenty-first page two photographs 'Rd. TO MT. CARMEL.' and 'VIEW FROM MT. CARMEL.'; twenty-second page two photographs 'CASINO BATH GALIM' and 'TECHNICUM'; twenty-third page one photograph 'TEL-EVIV./MAIN STREET.'; twenty-fourth photograph two photographs 'BUSINESS CENTRE' and 'GENERAL'; twenty-fifth page two photographs 'SHOPPING CENTRE' and 'THE Sq(A?)RE'; twenty-sixth page two photographs 'HOMES' and 'THE SEASIDE.'; twenty-seventh page one photograph 'ARAB TYPES./WAL-LED, BINT & CAMEL'; twenty-eighth page two photographs 'A SHEPHERD' and 'ARAB CORREEHOUSE.' twenty-ninth page two photographs 'BEDUIN WOMEN' and three right pointing arrows to 'WITH JAR'; thirtieth page two photographs 'BEDUIN MAN' and 'LEMONADE SELLER'; thirty-first page one photograph 'GENERAL SNAPS/GERMAN AIRMAN'S GRAVE. (GAZA CEMETRY.); thirty-second page two photographs 'ARAB POLICEMAN' and 'WAL-LED (BOY)'; thirty-third page two photographs 'VIEW OF GAZA AND BOYS.' and 'THE BOYS, 2 gRAVES ON HILL GAZA'; thirty-fourth page two photographs 'BILL RIDING DONKEY. (ROBBY).' and 'MAC, VERNE, NEV + WOG SHEPHERDS'; last six pages blank. Twelve additional loose photographs possibly intended to fill the last six pages include: [.2] small black and white photograph handwritten in blue ink on back 'Dec 1st 1941/Photo of Two-up game/Miss M Higgins', photograph of a group of Australian soldiers in uniform standing in a rough circle, most looking up, in a desert-like environment; [.3] small black and white photograph handwritten in blue ink on back 'Dec 1st 1941/Down a slit trench/outside tent/Miss M Higgins', photograph of four soldiers in front of tent one in a trench with only head, shoulders and arms above ground; [.4] small black and white photograph handwritten in blue ink on back 'Dec 1st 1941/Posing with wog shepherds/Miss M Higgins', photograph of two soldiers standing to sides of two Arab shepherds in centre, possibly Raymond Johnson on the right hand side; [.5] small black and white photograph handwritten in blue ink on back 'Miss M Higgins/9 Forrest Street/NarroginWA/Nick, Charlie, Russ + myself/on leave in Tel-Aviv 16th Dec 41/Taken on a fountain in the/middle of a four street junction' photograph of four soldiers squatting down in front of a fountain with bushes and a corner building in the background; [.6] small black and white photograph handwritten in blue ink on back 'Miss M Higgins/9 Forrest St/Narrogin WA/The boys looking at a/rock during rest while on route march', photograph of a group of at least fifty soldiers walking towards large rock cliff; [.7] small black and white photograph handwritten in blue ink on back 'Miss M Higgins/9 Forrest St/Narrogin WA/The same rock/as other snap', photograph of a group of at least fifty soldiers at base of llarge rock cliff; [.8] small black and white photograph handwritten in blue ink on back 'Miss M Higgins/9 Forrest St/Narrogin WA/The memorial to the/soldiers of the last war/mentioned in letter/21st Dec 41.', photograph of two soldiers standing at front of WWI war memorial; [.9] small black and white photograph handwritten in blue ink on back 'Miss M Higgins/9 Forrest St/Narrogin WA/The wailing wall in/old city Jerusalem./Notice ? + Jews/with beards + curls/wailing./2nd Feb 42', photograph of two Australian soldiers in uniform standing next to Jewish men at the wailing wall in old Jerusalem; [.10] small black and white photograph handwritten in blue ink on back, 'Alan + Eddie/Jerusalem', photograph of two Australian soldiers standing in a narrow street with two local people, a man and a boy; [.11] small black and white photograph handwritten in blue ink on back, 'Miss M Higgins/9 Forrest St/Narrogin WA/The boys having a/spell during the/walking tour. I'm looking/at the camera/Jeru 2nd Feb 42', photograph of a group of Australian soldiers with their backs to the camera, Ray Johnson the soldier in the centre of the photograph looking at the camera; [.12]small black and white photograph handwritten in blue ink on back, 'Miss M Higgins/9 Forrest St/Narrogin WA/Alan, Herb, myself, Rob/Nev + Lindsay./Gazza,/May '42/Miss M/Higgins', photograph of six soldiers wearing metal hard hats posing with anti-aircraft gun?; [.13] small black and white photograph handwritten in blue ink on back, 'Miss M Higgins/Queen Elizabeth/came over on her', a photograph of the Queen Elizabeth ship with a smoking soldier in the left foreground.
Department:
History DepartmentCollection
History Collection
Collection Item Data
| Accession Number: | H2015.55.1-13 |
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| Accession Date: | 8 Jul 2015 |
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| Acquisition Year: | 2015 |
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Material
| Wood | polished timber; metal, cotton twine, paper, cardboard,
| 1 - Part 1 |
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Measurement
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