Guide to the New Australia Colony, Paraguay, May 1985, 1985

Summary

Collection number:

PIC/21286/1-97

Language:

English and English

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as [Title or description of item], New Australia Colony, Paraguay, May 1985, National Library of Australia, PIC/21286, [item number(s)].

Availability:

Available

Background

Content Summary:

Collection features images relating to the New Australia Colony and Cosme Colony socialist utopian colonies established in Paraguay in 1893 and 1894 by a group of Australians migrants led by William Lane. The photographer, Peter Solness, visited for the month of May in 1985 researching the descendants of the New Australia movement of 1892. It contains a series of portraits of the last Australian born member of the original colony, Don Guillermo (Bill) Wood, his brothers Don Norman Wood and Wallace Wood, Rod McLeaod, who spent his life on the colony, as well as their descendants. Some of their descendants were still living in the colony, with others living in other parts of Paraguay. Bill Wood, Norman Wood and Wallace Wood are the children of William Wood and Lillian Wood, Bill only 8 months when they left Australia. The collection also features views of Camp Cosme, the colony and general scenes of Paraguay. The images and story were published in an article "Ginger Meggs in Paraguay" by Peter Solness in the Good Weekend Magazine, 26 January 1986.

Conditions Governing Use:

Conditions for copying and publishing of this collection may apply, please refer to the collections catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn10013025).

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as [Title or description of item], New Australia Colony, Paraguay, May 1985, National Library of Australia, PIC/21286, [item number(s)].

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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