458013
- TitleErrol Hampton Coote photographs, 1929-1932
- Creator
- Call numberPXA 1134
- Level of descriptionseries
- Date
1929 - 1932 - Type of material
- Reference code458013
- Physical DescriptionPhotographs - ?? silver gelatin and copy photoprints - 25.5 x 30.5 cm. or smaller - - : ;
6 photographic prints - gelatin silver, some copy 25.5 x 30.5 cm. or smaller : - ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Errol Hampton Coote (1898-1973), journalist and aviator, was the pilot of the Golden Quest on the Central Australian Gold Exploration Company Limited's (CAGE) 1930 Lasseter Expedition. His book, Hell's Airport (1934) records the event. - Scope and Content1. Errol Coote, Alexander Hay Stewart and Keith Farmer, Essendon Aerodrome, 21 Oct 1932
2-6. Ayers Rock, Alice Springs (p.33) and the Outback
7. [Copy of Lasseter's surveying certificates, International Correspondence Schools (p.228)]
8. Bill Leonard, of Laverton, helps Farmer fuel the Sopwith (p.204)
9. Eumos native teaching his picaninny the art of spear-throwing / Kingsley Love (p.156)
10. Errol Coote
11. We make a dump in the mulga at Lake Throsell (p.164)
12. My sister hands my typewriter aboard (p.32)
13. Golden Quest tied down, Government Resident's Office, Alice Springs (p.85)
14. Tree outside the cave with the message carved by Lasseter / C.A.G.E. (p.133)
15. Equipment of [biplane] Canberra, including bag of material dropped to Southern Cross, Wyndham, 1929
16. [Crew with the West Centralian, 1932]
17a. First camp of the Lasseter expedition; Lasseter and Houston at the campfire
17b. Stock boy shows Blakeley where to find Cattleman Giles; Blakeley climbed over the MacDonnell Ranges before he located him (p.52)
18. Ulm and Kingsford Smith just after landing back in Sydney from the North West Australian forced landing, 1929 / Daily Telegraph
19. Aerial photograph, Grant Range, northwest Australia (p.261)
20. Aerial photograph, Bullabulling (p.269)
21. Aerial photograph near Flora Valley Station, East Kimberley (p.268)
22. [Aerial photograph]
23. Aerial photograph, Exmouth Gulf (p.253) / RAAF No.1 Squadron
24. Aerial photograph, Dip Slopes, Flora Valley, East Kimberly (p.260) / RAAF No.1 Squadron
25. Blakeley, Sutherland and Taylor with the truck and supplies; Lasseter busy in the foreground (similar p.36)
26. “Ready to take the air’ – bird’s eye view of Southern Cross VH-USU and crowd, [late 1920’s]
27. C.A.G.E. expedition, Alice Springs (similar p.36)
28. C.A.G.E. expedition, Alice Springs (p.36)
29. Fred Blakeley, Alice Springs (p.36)
30. Taylor and Sutherland, Anna Downs Station
31. Haasts Bluff (180 miles west of Alice Springs – p.45)
32. Mickey – Aboriginal guide to CAGE expedition
33. Mountains near Yaiyai Creek
34. Bob Buck and Pitjantjatjarra (near Docker River)
35. Golden Quest II VH-UGX, Ayers Rock
36. Rudder’s Well and grave, 96 miles east of Laverton
37. Shell Motor Spirit sign
38. Wongapittcha man, Ilpili [[ilpili is the spelling]] (p.180)
39. [Wongapittcha group], Ilpili (p.100)
40. Wongapittcha man, Warburton Ranges or Pintupi man, Ilpili (p.188)
41. Aboriginal woman
42. Aboriginal children with goats, probably Hermannsburg Mission
43. Aboriginal man with camp dog [dingo]
44. Aboriginal children
45. Aboriginal boy Norman (similar p.189)
46. Ilpili mother and daughter (p.100)
47. Children, probably Hermannsburg
48. Ford truck, second expedition
49. Golden Quest, Hermannsburg Mission, 1930; George Heinrich, schoolmaster (in hat), with the Superintendent of the Mission (in cap) and the Commonwealth Medical Officer Dr Kirkland (bareheaded, right) / E.Coote (p.85)
50. Stock boy shows Blakeley where to find Cattleman Archie Giles; Blakeley climbed over the MacDonnell Ranges before he located him (p.52)
51. Father Long and mechanic Philip Taylor with Golden Quest, Alice Springs with Mt Gillen in the background
52. Paddy Tucker, Aboriginal camel driver, getting ready to take the ground party to Ayers Rock (p.108)
53. Lasseter on truck; Father Long saying goodbye to Errol Coote, who is driving Fred Colson’s Chevrolet, Alice Springs, 1930 (p.36)
54. Errol Coote and Keith Farmer with the West Centralian, Laverton, on the second expedition
55. Errol Coote on second expedition looking at abandoned camel dray used by Sam Hazlett in his search for Leichhardt’s box
56. Keith Farmer refuelling the Sopwith Gnu, fitted with Wright Whirlwind, assisted by Bill Leonard, the owner of Mt Crawford Station, Laverton - Copying ConditionsOut of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales - Published InformationPage nos in the Contents list refer to the page opposite the photograph in Hell's Airport
- General note
Photographs transferred from MLMSS 7777; they are chiefly related to the Lasseter expedition and the book Hell's airport, 1929-1932
Reference: Hell's airport : the key to Lasseter's gold reef / by Errol Coote ; with foreword by Charles Kingsford Smith. Sydney : Peterman, 1934
Digital order no:Album ID : 852827 - Conservation note
Nos 27-48 removed from sticky photograph album
Nos 27-48 reprinted by Bill Marshall-Stoneking, 1983 - Creator/Author/Artist
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