The Carrolup Story: Gallery

: Cover of Carrolup School Journal containing notes made by teachers Olive Elliot (1945 – 1946) and Noel White (1946 – 1950). Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Detail of a large tablecloth embroidered by the Carrolup girls under the supervision of Vera Wallam based on designs by Revel Cooper. It was a Christmas gift from all the girls to Mr and Mrs White, 1948. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Article by John Stokes, The West Australian , 24th February 1951. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Page of a book the boys of Carrolup made for school inspector Charlie Cook that shows the names of all boys at the school in 1950. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Pages from Revel Cooper’s school notebook, History No. 1, Standard 6 . Mary Durack Miller Collection (ACC 3302A), J. S. Battye Library of West Australian History.

: Letter from Margaret Edenburg (née Rutter) to Mr and Mrs White, 25th June 1950. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: One of the pages of the Milady article by Muriel Wieck that inspired Mrs Rutter to visit Carrolup, July 1949. Mary Durack Miller Collection, J. S. Battye Library of West Australian History.

: The prestigious Illustrated London News highlights the Carrolup boys’ achievements, August 1950. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: The West Australian , 12th December 1950. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Revel Cooper is arrested in Narrogin, The West Australian , 8th September 1952. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Letter by Mrs Rutter to The Times Educational Supplement , 5th January 1951. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Cover of the book Child Artists of the Australian Bush by Mary Durack Miller and Florence Rutter, published in 1952. The drawing on the cover is by Barry Loo.

: Invitation to an Exhibition of the Carrolup children’s art held at Foyles Art Gallery in London, 31st January 1951. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Part of a letter from Reynold Hart to Mrs Rutter which appeared in the Daily Graphic article ‘Can Your Child Draw Like This?’ in the UK, 29th July 1950. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Exhibition of Carrolup art at Boans department store, The West Australian , 23rd October 1947. The boys from left to right are Claude Kelly, Barry Loo, Reynold Hart and Parnell Dempster. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Letter from Baroness de Beaufort, on behalf of H.R.H. Princess Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, to Mrs Rutter. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Native’s Weapons by Parnell Dempster sent to Mrs Rutter in England, March 1950. The Herbert Mayer Collection of Carrolup Artwork, John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University.

: Description of life at Carrolup by Revel Cooper, 1960. Doreen Trainor Collection, J. S. Battye Library of West Australian History.

: Excerpt from Mr White’s School Journal , 5th May 1950. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Examiner , Launceston, 23rd September 1949. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Cover of book of schoolwork prepared by the Carrolup boys for school inspector Charlie Cook, 1950. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Great Southern Herald , 25th June, 1948. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Page from a book the Carrolup boys made for school inspector Charlie Cook, 1950. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Drawing by Revel Cooper which is on the cover of Lily White’s memorabilia scrapbook. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Detail of a large tablecloth embroidered by the Carrolup girls under the supervision of Vera Wallam based on designs by Revel Cooper. It was a Christmas gift from all the girls to Mr and Mrs White, 1948. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Tablecloth embroidered by the Carrolup girls under the supervision of Vera Wallam based on designs by Revel Cooper. It was a Christmas gift from all the girls to Mr and Mrs White, 1948. The tablecloth has tea stains from the 1940s. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Approach to School Work. Notes by Noel White relating to the teaching of Aboriginal children. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Letter from Carrolup boy Murray Cox to Florence Rutter, 3rd December 1950. Mary Durack Miller Papers (ACC 7273A, 60.22), J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History.

: First page of letter from Parnell Dempster to Florence Rutter, dated 6th July 1950. Mary Durack-Miller Collection, The J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History.

: Letter from Cliff Ryder to Florence Rutter, dated 2nd March 1950. Mary Durack-Miller Collection, The J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History.

: Print of Youth Chasing Kangaroo by Reynold Hart which appeared in Florence Rutter’s Little Black Fingers and in The Overseas and Transatlantic Mail. Mary Durack-Miller Collection, The J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History.

: Print of Four Blackboy Trees and Four Ducks by Milton Jackson. Illustration in Little Black Fingers by Mrs Florence Rutter. The artist is not named in the booklet, but Milton’s name is on the back of a print in the Mary Durack-Miller Collection, The J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History.

: Headline from Woman’s Day & Home, 15th January 1951. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Letter written by the Chairman of the Apeldoorn Painting Club to the children of Carrolup, June 1950.

: ‘Katanning celebrates children’s art return’ article in the Great Southern Herald, March 1st, 2006.

: Noel White’s flute, given to him by his grandmother in Burma, was made in the 1860/70s. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Pages from Revel Cooper’s Standard VI schoolbook focusing on the Burke and Wills expedition in 1860 – 1861. Revel would likely have been 11 or 12 years old. The J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History.

: School Journal entries in May – June 1947. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Photographs of three of the Carrolup boys (Revel Cooper, Burgess Williams and Barney Williams), along with two Aboriginal men (Joe Carpenter and Urang Moses). Sunday Times, 7th July 1946. (Screen shot from Trove).

: Department of Native Affairs file on James Cooper, father of Carrolup artist Revel Cooper (p. 1).

: Department of Native Affairs file on James Cooper, father of Carrolup artist Revel Cooper (p. 2).

: Six of the Carrolup children who attended the holiday camp at Swanbourne in January 1949. The Daily News, 20th January 1950.

: The 1949 Carrolup Native Settlement School football team that won two football games in Perth in September 1949. They were ‘Never Ever Beaten’. The West Australian 1st September 1949.

: Reynold Hart and Barry Loo face a difficult situation, as described in the Sunday Times of the 3rd of September 1950. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Letter from Barry Loo to Florence Rutter, written on 20th September 1950, after Barry had left Carrolup and was working in Perth.

: First page of letter dated 30 June 1952 from Constance Gaskell, on behalf of Queen Mary, to Noel White. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Names of all pupils at Carrolup Native Settlement School on the 31st January, 1947. Note that the children are called ‘inmates’.

: Letter from Stephen Wallace, Director of Primary Education, to Noel White on his retirement in December 1965.

: Black and white print of A Mystery – Stalking a Shark by Claude Kelly. Illustration in Little Black Fingers by Florence Rutter. Mary Durack-Miller Collection, The J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History.

: List of the Carrolup artist pastels at the Boans Exhibition organised by the W.A. Native Welfare Council (inc.) in April 1957.

: First page of letter from Revel Cooper to Mrs Doreen Trainor, 6th November 1956. Doreen Trainor Collection (A342A), The J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History.

: Mrs Florence Rutter’s Obituary in The West Australian written by her beloved friend Mary Durack Miller. Mary Durack Miller Collection, The J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History.

: Letter from Gordon Worner, Senior Inspector of Schools, to Parnell Dempster, 1st August 1950. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Gloucester Echo photograph of Mrs Rutter showing the Carrolup art in Cheltenham in January 1951. Mary Durack-Miller Collection, The J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History.

: A page by Phillip Jackson from a book of ‘pleasant memories’ given to School Inspector Charlie Cook by ‘The Boys of Carrolup’, 1950. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Piano stool cushion-cover made by the children at Carrolup. Noel & Lily White Collection, Berndt Museum of Anthropology, The University of Western Australia.

: Reynold Hart sketching a kangaroo, Sunday Times, 13th August 1950. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: The Footballing Boys of Carrolup, The Daily News, 24th September 1949. Noel & Lily Collection.

: Reynold Hart’s Moonlight shown in the News, Adelaide of 8th January 1951. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: An article about the Aboriginal child artists of Carrolup in Teachers World and Schoolmistress, 7th February 1951. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Reproduction of a Carrolup drawing which appeared in the first edition of Movement. Noel & Lily White Collection.

: Letter from John Cleland to Noel White, dated 10th September 1948, is in the Noel & Lily White Collection.

More success for Parnell Dempster, as revealed in The West Australian of the 18th October 1950. Noel & Lily White Collection.

A letter of appreciation from Emily E Moore in Florence Rutter’s ‘Notebook of Appreciation’ to Noel & Lily White for their work with the Aboriginal children of Carrolup. Noel & Lily White Collection.

A page from Revel Cooper’s reflections on Carrolup, including words of appreciation of teacher Noel White, written in Fremantle Prison in 1960. Mary Durack Miller Collection, Battye Library.

Memorabilia