Series 3 - Photographs of Plant Construction, Staff And Factory Operations


Date Range1960? - 1991?
Quantity51 cm, 41 folders and photographs
ProvenancePigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Description

The photographs in this series show many features of plant operations, construction works, staff in the workplace, on-site visits, aerial photographs, interior and exterior views of the factory, and staff functions.

Some of the photographs appear to have been taken by professional photographers, while others are less formal snapshots of daily activities and events in and around the plant.

The provenance of Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited has been assigned to this series as it was not possible to determine a finer provenance attribution. Also included are files pre-dating the formation of PMA Ltd, which have been assigned the provenance of Pigments Plant at Laverton.


Inventory Listing

3-1 On the Job - Photographs From Album
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Black and white, and colour photographs of people and machinery at the Laverton plant. The photographs in this inventory item were removed from a photograph album during the archiving process.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1960? - 1991?, Mostly 1980s    Quantity 2.5 cm, 1 folder
Formats Illustrations and Mounted Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0896 Box Number 5 Series 3
3-2 Plant Model Looking South
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Creator Pigments Plant at Laverton
Date range 1961    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0869 Box Number 5 Series 3
3-3 Services Models, Construction, and Other Photographs
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This item includes black and white photographs of models and construction work. Also included is a group of colour photographs showing building exteriors and waste.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range c. 1961 - c. 1990    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Mounted Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0899 Box Number 5 Series 3
3-4 Laverton Plant - Including Construction and Early Years
Part 1 of 2
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This inventory item opens with a colour photograph of what appears to be the interior of the pigments plant at Laverton.

Colour, and black and white photographs, including many duplicates. Also includes two labelled envelopes.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1961 - c. 1981    Quantity 2.5 cm, 1 folder
Formats Photographic Film Negatives, Loose Photographic Prints and Photographic Transparencies
Inventory Identifier PMA0898 Box Number 5 Series 3
3-5 Laverton Plant - Including Construction and Early Years
Part 2 of 2
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Includes a colour negative of the interior of the pigments plant at Laverton, and colour and black and white photographs, including many duplicates.

Also includes two labelled envelopes.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1961 - c. 1981    Quantity 2.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Photographic Film Negatives, Loose Photographic Prints and Photographic Transparencies
Inventory Identifier PMA1150 Box Number 5 Series 3
3-6 Site Excavation and Construction Photographs (Dated)

THIS FILE IS MISSING (noted 8 August 2008).

Creator Pigments Plant at Laverton
Date range 1961    Quantity 6 cm, 1 album
Formats Diagrams and Mounted Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0152 Box Number 5 Series 3
3-7 Mr J. Cordner Cutting Ribbon at Opening of Laverton Pigment Plant
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Black and white photograph of what appears to be the opening of the Laverton plant.

Creator Pigments Plant at Laverton
Date range c. 1962    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0885 Box Number 5 Series 3
3-8 ICI Specialty Chemicals Tradeway - Photograph of Koala in Tree
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Publicity photograph, mounted and in colour.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1960? - 1991?, No dates.    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 photograph
Formats Mounted Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0873 Box Number 5 Series 3
3-9 Automative Oil Fired Boilers and Other Plant Photographs
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Black and white.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1961 - c. 1981    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 folder
Formats Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0890 Box Number 5 Series 3
3-10 Factory Floor and Other Photographs
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This inventory item also includes photographs of site excavation, inspection, opening of the factory and an aerial view of the Laverton plant.

Black and white photographs.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range c. 1961 - 1991?    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 folder
Formats Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0900 Box Number 5 Series 3
3-11 PMA Photographs for Gavin Smith (Please Return to Alan Barlee)
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Assorted photographs of people and machinery at the Laverton plant, including:

Hugh Grayson, Works Manager, ICIANZ Pigments Plant, Laverton, Victoria. August 1968.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range c. 1961 - c. 1970    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 folder
Formats News Clippings, Loose Photographic Prints and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier PMA0886 Box Number 5 Series 3
3-12 Mr H. Grayson
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Black and white proofs.

Creator Pigments Plant at Laverton
Date range c. 1961    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 folder
Formats Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0877 Box Number 5 Series 3
3-13 Pigments Buildings
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Black and white photograph.

Creator Pigments Plant at Laverton
Date range 1962    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0894 Box Number 5 Series 3
3-14 ICIANZ Colour Matching Service Demonstration
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The three black and white photographs in this item are in an envelope with assorted captions and lists of names. It is unclear which names and captions apply to which photograph.

This item also includes a photograph that appears to show a demonstration of an international telex machine.

Creator Pigments Plant at Laverton
Date range c. 1962 - c. 1967    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 folder
Formats Loose Notes and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0892 Box Number 6 Series 3
3-15 Aerial Photograph and Plant Photograph
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Black and white.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range c. 1965 - c. 1972, No dates.    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0888 Box Number 6 Series 3
3-16 Plant Photographs
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Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range c. 1965 - c. 1977    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0866 Box Number 6 Series 3
3-17 Boat With Dead Sea Bromine Co Containers
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Colour photograph.

Creator Pigments Plant at Laverton
Date range 1968    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 photograph
Formats Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0879 Box Number 6 Series 3
3-18 ICI Pigments Plant - Laverton Foreman 1968
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The title of this item is from a handwritten inscription with the mounted photograph, which identifies the subjects as:
Rear: L. Horvath, J. Barnes, L. Rae, W. Morris, T. Jones
Front: L. Doyle, N. Laws (seated), F. Robinson

Creator Pigments Plant at Laverton
Date range 1968    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 photograph
Formats Mounted Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0864 Box Number 6 Series 3
3-19 Exterior of the Laverton Plant
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Two black and white photographs with captions. Inventory item includes blank cardboard on which photographs were originally mounted.

Creator Pigments Plant at Laverton
Date range 1969    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 folder
Formats Mounted Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0893 Box Number 6 Series 3
3-20 Pigments Laverton - Dyes
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Black and white photograph.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1970? - 1979?    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0895 Box Number 6 Series 3
3-21 Aerial Photographs of the Laverton Plant
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Four black and white photographs with labelled envelope.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1970? - 1991?, No dates.    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 folder
Formats Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0897 Box Number 6 Series 3
3-22 Plan Aperture Cards; Photographs of Plant Interiors, Exteriors & Extensions
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Consists of assorted aperture cards, photographs and negatives. All were originally housed in the "Verycolor" photograph envelope included with the item.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range c. 1974 - c. 1977    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 folder
Formats Photographic Film Negatives, Loose Photographic Prints and Microfilmed Materials
Inventory Identifier PMA0867 Box Number 6 Series 3
3-23 Views of Plant from Road and Other Photographs
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Colour photographs.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1976 - 1987    Quantity 1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0870 Box Number 6 Series 3
3-24 Aerial Photographs
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Black and white photographs with negatives.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range c. 1976, No dates.    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 folder
Formats Photographic Film Negatives and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0872 Box Number 6 Series 3
3-25 Plant Photographs
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Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range c. 1976    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0862 Box Number 6 Series 3
3-26 Azo Extensions including General Works Equipment
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Also includes photographs of results of an accident in February 1977. Accident appears to be the collapse of an outdoor piping structure.

Colour photographs.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1976 - 1977    Quantity 1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0882 Box Number 6 Series 3
3-27 Azo Extension - Red & Yellow - Negatives

Three strips of colour negatives with two envelopes. The title listed above is inscribed on the first envelope. The second includes: "Azo Extensions - Urgent".

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range c. 1976    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Photographic Film Negatives
Inventory Identifier PMA0887 Box Number 6 Series 3
3-28 Aerial Photographs Color
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The Kodak envelope which originally contained the photographs is inscribed: "Aerial Photos Color - Bright Sunlight - Film Kodak C135-12 80 ASA - 105mm lense - f11 - 1/250th".

Also includes negatives.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1977    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 folder
Formats Photographic Film Negatives and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0865 Box Number 7 Series 3
3-29 PMA Transparencies

55mm colour transparencies featuring inside and outside scenes, and people and machinery.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 198?    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Photographic Transparencies
Inventory Identifier PMA0883 Box Number 7 Series 3
3-30 Unidentified Work Function
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Mounted colour photograph featuring a group of suited men.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range c. 1980 - c. 1990    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 photograph
Formats Mounted Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0874 Box Number 7 Series 3
3-31 General Laboratory and Factory Scenes

Unmounted 55mm transparencies.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1980? - 1990?    Quantity 1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Photographic Transparencies
Inventory Identifier PMA0868 Box Number 7 Series 3
3-32 Group Photograph Presented by Manfred Schwencke, Behn Meyer
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Colour photograph with a 'With Compliments' slip from Manfred Schwencke.

A handwritten note attached to the back reads: "Mr. Barlee - PMA".

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1980? - 1990?    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0891 Box Number 7 Series 3
3-33 Photographs Showing Pollution
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Colour photographs.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range c. 1981    Quantity 1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0878 Box Number 7 Series 3
3-34 Creek after Clean Up
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Colour photographs with negatives.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range c. 1981    Quantity 1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Photographic Film Negatives and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0884 Box Number 7 Series 3
3-35 Pollution and Other Photographs

Three strips of colour negatives believed to be landscape photographs showing pollution.

This item also includes two black and white negatives which show an order form for the development of photographs, and a negative of the ribbon cutting to open the Laverton plant which appears to be the same image as the print found in item PMA0885.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range c. 1981    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Photographic Film Negatives
Inventory Identifier PMA0889 Box Number 7 Series 3
3-36 Preparation of Colour Cards

Black and white negatives.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range c. 1985 - c. 1987    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 folder
Formats Photographic Transparencies
Inventory Identifier PMA0871 Box Number 7 Series 3
3-37 Dry Lump Extension Construction, and Other Photographs
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Other titles include "Dry Lump Store Construction" and "Vacuum Bagger sent to BASF for Imfo [sic]". Colour photographs and negatives.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1986    Quantity 1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Photographic Film Negatives and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0881 Box Number 7 Series 3
3-38 Vessel Leg
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Two colour photographs and one strip of negatives.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1986    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 folder
Formats Photographic Film Negatives and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0880 Box Number 7 Series 3
3-39 Banner Celebrating 25 Years of Laverton Plant Operation
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Mounted colour photograph.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1987    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 photograph
Formats Mounted Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0875 Box Number 7 Series 3
3-40 Staff Member Wearing PMA 25th Anniversary T-Shirt
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Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1987    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 photograph
Formats Mounted Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0863 Box Number 7 Series 3
3-41 Bush Dance November 1987 - 25 Years
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Colour photographs of scenes at the social gathering to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Laverton pigment plant.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1987    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 folder
Formats Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier PMA0876 Box Number 7 Series 3

Published by the The University of Melbourne, eScholarship Research Centre on AustehcWeb, December 2008
Listed by Barbara Cytowicz, Ann McCarthy, Gavan McCarthy, Michael Jones, Rachel Tropea
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