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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2025-09-02 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-09-02 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007833b.htm person Walker Harrison Dodge Howell AACR2 Walker, Howell 4 August 1910 26 January 2003 Place of Birth U.S.A. Place of Death Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia Photographer Journalist Howell Walker was a photographer and journalist, joining the National geographic magazine in 1936. He spent many years travelling the world for the magazine. In 1941 he was sent to Australia to cover the war effort in the southwest Pacific region, serving with the U.S. Army Air Force as an intelligence officer from 1943 to 1946. Walker was appointed to the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land in 1948 as representative of the magazine. While on the Expedition he took both still and moving images. Walker continued working for National geographic until 1975, revisiting Australia a number of times. In 1954 he was in the Northern Territory and Melville Island with Charles Mountford, who had led of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. After retiring Walker settled in Sydney with his Australian wife Sheila. 1933 1933 Education - Graduated from Princeton University, New Jersey, U.S.A. 1936 1936 Career event - Joined National geographic magazine 1943 1946 Military service - Served with the U.S. Army Air Force February 1948 November 1948 Career position - Writer and Photographer, American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land 1954 1954 Career event - In Northern Territory and Melville Island with Charles Mountford 1975 1975 Life event - Retired Mountford, Charles Pearcy (1890 - 1976) American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land (1948)

Writer and photographer

 'Walker, Harrison Dodge Howell (Howell)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Walker, Harrison Dodge Howell (Howell) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Cruise to Stone Age Arnhem Land Walker, H. Cruise to Stone Age Arnhem Land 1949 National geographic magazine 96 3 417-30 Journal Article: Exploring stone age Arnhem Land Mountford, C. P, with photographs by Howell Walker Exploring stone age Arnhem Land 1949 National geographic magazine 96 745-82