Pearling industry collection

An extensive collection of material relating to the Australian pearling industry from the 1870s to the 1990s comprising objects such as hard hat diving suits and helmets, pearl culture tools and equipment, a model of the lugger COONAGLEBAR II, and the vessel in the Australian National Maritime Museum fleet the JOHN LOUIS - a 1957 pearling lugger. Other material includes photographs, oral histories, scrapbooks and official reports on the industry. The major part of the archival material is formed by the Denis George collection, which consists of an extensive record of George's involvement with the pearling industry in northern Australia and New Guinea from the 1940s to the 1990s, including letters, agreements, newspaper and magazine cuttings, photographs, postcards, lugger log books, government corrospondence, tourist brochures, industry reports and other mostly paper based ephemera.

本馆藏为1870年至1990年澳大利亚采珠业相关的综合性藏品，涵盖硬盔潜水服、潜水头盔、珍珠养殖工具与设备、‘库纳格巴尔二号’（COONAGLEBAR II）采珠小艇模型，以及澳大利亚国家海事博物馆（Australian National Maritime Museum）馆藏舰队中的‘约翰·路易斯号’（JOHN LOUIS）——该艇为1957年建造的采珠小艇。其余馆藏内容还包括该行业相关的照片、口述历史资料、剪贴簿与官方报告。档案藏品的核心组成部分为丹尼斯·乔治（Denis George）馆藏，该馆藏完整记录了乔治于1940年至1990年间参与澳大利亚北部及新几内亚采珠业的相关经历，内含信件、协议、报刊剪报、照片、明信片、采珠小艇航海日志、政府往来信函、旅游宣传册、行业报告及其他以纸质载体为主的零散文献。