MWA Viewfinder photographic and business archive

This series includes coloured transparencies, negatives and slides of:

• Brisbane skyline, River Fire fireworks (2001)
• Brisbane CBD including buildings and Queen St Mall, South Bank, Kangaroo Point rock climbing and China Town, Fortitude Valley
• Story, William Jolly and Captain Cook bridges
• UQ, St. Lucia and QUT, Carseldine
• Brisbane International Airport
• Breakfast Creek Wharf, Carindale Shopping Centre, Boondall, Manly Harbour
• Brisbane river and nearby sculptures, river boats (Kookaburra Queen, BCC City Cat)
• Brisbane International Airport
• St Helena Island, Tangalooma Island Resort on Moreton Island and nearby wrecks and Dunwich, North Stradbroke Island 
• Redland Bay jetty and coast

Some material is undated and unidentified.
 

This series includes coloured transparencies, negatives and slides of rural, rainforest or bush scenes of:

• Capricorn Caves, Rockhampton
• Hinze Dam in drought, 2002
• Forest burnt by bushfire, 2003
• Border Ranges National Park rainforest, walking tracks
• Natural Bridge/Arch, Springbrook National Park
• Curtis Falls, Tamborine National Park
• Tallebudgera scenery
• Girraween National Park bush, boulders

Some material is undated and unidentified.

The collection also contains some sepia toned transparencies. 

This series includes coloured transparencies and negatives of:

• trucks, trains
• wind mills, stock
• mountain ranges, gorges, rock formations, creeks, wild life and other outback scenery
• 4WDing, camping
• ruins, car wrecks
• industries
• monuments
• buildings such as hotels, general stores 

Towns mentioned include Birdsville, Richmond, Windorah and Winton.

Some material is unidentified and all undated.

Included is some material from South Australia and the Northern Territory.
 

This series includes coloured transparencies, negatives and slides of:

• hang gliding at Mt Tamborine
• hot air ballooning
• Qantas, Virgin, Lufthansa Cargo, Ansett and Air New Zealand planes
• Brisbane, Emerald, Gold Coast and Rockhampton airports
• light aircraft including a Cessna Caravan
• seaplanes and sea helicopters
• Sea world, Surf Life Saving, RACQ and air force helicopters
• Robina and Nerang train stations
• Queensland rail suburban network and Spirit of Outback trains, steam train, interior galley of a train

Some material is unidentified and undated.

The collection also contains some sepia toned transparencies.

This series includes coloured transparencies, negatives and slides of:

• Rainbow Beach airstrip
• beaches on Dunk Island and Bedarra Island, Cassowary Coast
• coffee trees, Airlie Beach
• Whitsundays Hamilton Island, Shute Harbour, Steel Point and Abel Point Marinas, coastal scenes, Heart reef and airport
• Abbot Point Railway, Horse Shoe Bay
• Tully river white water rafting
• Cairns coastal scenes and buildings
• Port Douglas coastal scenes, Agincourt Reef, Four Mile Beach and Marina Mirage Resort
• Daintree ferry
• Black Mountain, Black Mountain/Kalkajaka National Park
• Cooktown buildings, coastal scenes and the Endeavour (ship).
• Cape York Peninsula Seisia, Bamaga, Bloomfield track, Jardine Ferry, 4WDing and camping, mail plane, ant hills and the Eliot/Elliot, Twin and Indian Head waterfalls

Some material is unidentified and undated.

This series includes coloured transparencies, negatives and slides of:

• Roma buildings and rural scenes
• Noosa
• Gladstone power station and aluminium refinery
• Longreach airport, buildings
• Rockhampton buildings, bridges, Mt Morgan
• Mackay buildings, sugarcane, beaches and 4WDing
• Whitsundays
  • Hamilton Island lighthouse, coastal scenes, buildings, airport
  • Lindeman Island coastal scenes, resort
• Airlie Beach
• Mt Isa
• Townsville and Magnetic Island
• Cassowary Coast Bedarra and Dunk Island beaches, North Mission Beach and Tully jetty
• Lawn Hill National Park/Riversleigh World Heritage Area 4WDing and scenery
• Atherton Tablelands Ravenshoe wind turbines, Lake Eacham and Millaa Millaa Falls
• Kuranda
• Port Douglas buildings, coastal scenes, Four Mile Beach and Agincourt reef
• Daintree coast, waterfalls
• Cooktown cemetery, Endeavour (ship), coast
• Cape York Peninsula Indian Head and Twin Falls, Jardine River National Park, 4WDing

Some material is unidentified and undated.

This series includes coloured transparencies, negatives, slides and photographs of:

• Pumicestone Passage beach, wildlife
• Caloundra
• Noosa
• Hervey Bay Yacht Club
• Gladstone Harbour Festival raft race and entertainment
• Winton area monuments, crop and Combo Waterhole Conservation Park
• Emerald area windmill, crop
• Mackay area coastal scenes, buildings, wind mill, monuments, crop, bush and waterfall
• Kynuna Blue Heeler Hotel, road trains
• Whitsundays Airlie Beach coastal scenes, Hamilton Island buildings and plants
• Innisfail area coastal scenes, waterfalls, farmland, buildings eg. hotels and Coconuts
• Atherton Tablelands farmland, crops, forest, waterfall and scenery
• lasso practising

Some material is unidentified and undated.

The collection also contains some sepia toned transparencies.

This series includes coloured transparencies, negatives and slides of:

• Moreton Island Tangalooma island Resort, lighthouse, ship wrecks, ferry, wildlife, 4WDing and fishing, other scenery
• Glasshouse mountains
• Caloundra lighthouse, coastal scenes and buildings
• coastal scenes eg. yachts
• Mooloolaba hot air ballooning, buildings eg Ettamogah Pub, wharf and Point Cartwright
• Maroochydore coastal scenes, wind surfing
• Noosa coastal scenes 
• Mooloolah and Noosa river
• aerials of Maroochydore, Mooloolaba and Kawana Waters
• sunsets of coastal scenes including Mooloolaba.

Some material is unidentified and undated.

This series includes coloured transparencies and negatives of aerial views of urban development and coastal scenes of:

• Moreton Bay, Sandstone Point and Beachmere
• Bribie Island, Pumicestone Passage and Bellara
• Glasshouse Mountains
• Caloundra, Caloundra Headland, Little Mountain and Golden, Dicky and Moffat Beaches
• Mooloolaba, Point Cartwright
• Kawana
• Maroochydore, Cotton Tree, Twin Waters, Maroochy River, Mudjimba Island (Old Woman’s Island), Mudjimba and Alexandra Headland
• Coolum, Coolum Beach, Point Perry and Mount Coolum
• Nambour
• Noosa, Noosa National Park, Tewantin, Alexandria Bay, Hell’s Gates, Sunshine Beach, Noosa Headland and Noosa River
• Hervey Bay
• Fraser Island

Some material is unidentified and undated.

This series includes coloured transparencies, negatives and slides of mostly rural scenes:

• fishing
• farming land and infrastructure eg. dam, silo, cattle yards, wind mills and sheds
• farms, crops and stock eg. Barry Sprott Farm (Clifton), Windorah cattle yards
• farming practises eg crop harvesting, burning sugarcane, feed bales and farm machinery eg. harvesters, trucks
• buildings eg. Birdsville hotel, Jondaryan woolshed
• 4WDing and camping
• ruins eg. Old Winton Settlement, old farm machinery
• outback scenery
• bush and rainforest scenery eg. Sundown National Park, Bunya Mountains, Black Mountain, Black Mountain/Kalkajaka National Park
• Binna Burra and O’Reilly’s lodges and rainforest scenery, Lamington National Park
• wildlife
• wind farm
• Port Alma salt mine
• fossicking, Rubyvale
• Tea Tree Fields and Neilly’s Lagoon
• Maudsland lake, house and bush

Towns mentioned include Birdsville, Jondaryan, St George, Stanthorpe, Uki, Kingaroy, Morella, Emerald, Black water, Benaraby, Miriam Vale, Nerang, Longreach and Clifton.

Some material is unidentified and undated.  

Included is some material from outside Queensland.

This series includes coloured transparencies and negatives of:

• Hervey Bay jetty, coastal scenes and Desert Island
• Fraser Island
• Lake Wabby and Lake McKenzie
• Kingfisher Bay Resort
• shipwreck of the SS Maheno
• rainforest, coloured sand cliffs, coastal scenes, wild life
• ferry, jetty
• fishing, 4WDing, canoeing, whale watching
• sunsets

Included are images of aerial views of the island.

Some material is unidentified and undated.

This series includes coloured transparencies and negatives of:

• South Burnett area including Kilkivan, Maryborough and Kingaroy buildings, farms and other scenery
• Central Queensland bridges, buildings and boats
• Bundaberg area 
• airport, buildings, coastal scenes, monuments, fishing, snorkelling
• Lady Elliot Island wildlife, plane and coastal scenes
• Miara buildings and coastal scenes
• Gladstone area Agnes Waters, Seventeen Seventy/1770, Gladstone River Marina, airport, Tannum Sands, buildings, Lake Awoonga, industry
• Rockhampton area Hillcrest Hospital, Emu Park, Yeppoon coastal scenes, Great Keppel Island
• Winton/Longreach area Lake Quarry Conservation Park and Winton open air cinema and Outback Festival
• Darling downs Kogan Creek Power Station, Carnarvon Gorge, Millmerran coal mine, Roma and Dalby.

Some material is unidentified and undated.

This series includes coloured transparencies, negatives and slides of:

• flowers, flowering plants, flower arrangements, flower plantations
• Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers 2003
• Beaudesert Show
• new parklands, Roma St, Brisbane, March 2001

The collection also contains some sepia toned negatives. 

Some material is unidentified and undated.

This series includes coloured transparencies of aerial views of the Brisbane area:

• Brisbane
  • Eight Mile Plains, inner city and CBD, South Bank, Brisbane Airport, Manly, Gateway Bridge, and Mt Gravatt Garden City
• Ipswich
• Logan
  • Hyperdome
• Griffith Bridgewater Apartments
• Redlands
  • Capalaba, Redland Bay, Cleveland, Victoria Point and Orchid Beach.

The collection also contains some sepia toned transparencies. 

Some material is unidentified and undated.

This series includes coloured transparencies and negatives of aerial views of the Brisbane area:

•  Brisbane
  • airport, Bowen Hills, Brisbane Poo Plant, Bulimba, CBD, Eagle Farm, East Brisbane, Forest Lake, Gateway and Gateway upgrade project, Heathwood, Hemmant, industry, Jindalee, Lota, Lytton, MacGregor, Manly, Morningside, Mt Coot-Tha, Mt Gravatt, Mt Ommaney, Port of Brisbane, Sandgate, South Bank, Stafford, Story Bridge, UQ (St. Lucia), Wacol, Woolloongabba and Wynnum 
• Moreton Bay
  • Bribie Island, Coochiemudlo, Deception Bay, Jumpinpin Bar, MacLeay Island, Mango Hill, Moreton Island, North Lakes, Raby Bay, Redcliffe, Russell Island, Scarborough, Stradbroke and Strathpine
• Redlands
  • Alexandra Hills, Capalaba Shopping Centre, Cleveland, Mount Cotton, Pelican Slipway, Redland Bay, Thornlands, Petrac Development and Victoria Point
• Sunshine Coast
  • Kawana Island and Little Mountain and Caloundra
• Ipswich
  • Augustine Heights, Capral Aluminium, Goodna, Redbank, Springfield, Swanbank Power Station and Amberley air field
• Freshwater
• Gold Coast
  • Jacobs Well, Ormeau and Yatala
• Logan
  • Beenleigh, Browns Plains, CBD, Greenbank, Hospital, Hyperdome and Springwood 

Some material is unidentified and undated.

This series includes coloured transparencies of aerial views of the Brisbane area:

• Brisbane city, Story bridge, Brisbane river
• Gateway Bridge, some with cruise ships
• University of Queensland, St Lucia
• East Brisbane
• Roma St train station, Brisbane CBD
• Brisbane airport
• Brisbane Entertainment Centre

Some material is unidentified and undated.
 

This series includes coloured transparencies and negatives of the Brisbane area:

• New Farm Park
• Port of Brisbane area including Fisherman Island
• North Stradbroke Island coastal scenes
• aerial views of Moreton Island sand dunes
• Brisbane Lions v’s Richmond Tigers AFL game, GABBA and Essendon Bombers v’s Brisbane Lions AFL game, [GABBA]
• Brisbane CBD area including Story Bridge, riverside expressway, buildings (new and old), sculptures, buskers, markets and jacarandas in flower
• Brisbane CBD area at night
• a parade, possible Anzac Day
• Moreton Bay scenery and coastal scenes
• St Helena Island ruins
• views from Mt Coot-Tha
• Brisbane river scenes including boats (citycats etc), riverside sculptures, area near Breakfast Creek
• character homes
• aerial views of Browns Plains, Victoria Point and Coochiemudlo

The collection also contains some sepia toned transparencies and negatives.

Some material is unidentified and undated.

This series includes coloured transparencies and negatives of aerial views of:

• Double Island Point
• Rainbow Beach
• Fraser Island including Indian Head and Waddy Point
• Hervey Bay
• Bundaberg
• Moore Park
• Miara
• Agnes Water
• Seventeen Seventy (1770)

This series includes coloured transparencies of aerial views of the Gateway Bridge Upgrade Project.  Leighton Abigroup Joint Venture (LBJV) was the principle contractor responsible for the Gateway Bridge Upgrade Project and a client of MWA Viewfinder.

This series includes 124 compact discs and DVDs of images of the Gateway Bridge Upgrade Project (includes aerial images).  Leighton Abigroup Joint Venture (LBJV) was the principle contractor responsible for the Gateway Bridge Upgrade Project and a client of MWA Viewfinder.

This series includes sepia toned transparencies and coloured photographs of work undertaken by the company Leighton, a client of MWA Viewfinder:

• aerial views of highway construction work including the Pacific Highway
• construction trucks

One envelope containing a range of material:

• 2 photographs containing Murray Waite and Michael Redding, creator unknown
• MWA Viewfinder company logo
• transparency cropping guide
• photocopy of a clipping titled “Snapping the Gateway to progress”, The Gold Coast Bulletin, 18 July 2008, p. 105
• 13 pieces of printed ephemera used to promote the company and a photograph of two women in swimwear with the company’s logo.
• CD titled “The Australian Collection vol 1: South East Queensland” containing over 100 digital images and which was given to potential clients as an example of their work.  Copyright 1995.
• 12 business records.
• miscellaneous material.

Some material is undated.