This series contains 15 photographic prints, 23 acetate negatives, glass negatives, an x-ray image, and nitrate negatives. The photographs and negatives come from a variety of sources and all but one depict Australian Aboriginal people. All but one of the prints have a corresponding negative included in this series. While some of the negatives are annotated with information about the photographs, a number of the negatives and photographs lack any annotations or other indicators that would help determine where or when they were taken, or who the photographer was.

A group of photographs within this series was taken by Ursula McConnel (see AA 191) during her fieldwork in north Queensland in the 1920s and 1930s. Another group of six photographic prints and negatives taken in 1935, depict the injured feet of an Australian Aboriginal man from Western Australia. Two of the negatives and three of the photographic prints appear to be studies of hair growth patterns. The glass negatives and the x-ray image relate to Fenner's physical anthropology research at the South Australian Museum, as does one of the acetate negatives.

Also included in this series is an x-ray image of a scaphocephalic human cranium. The image was published in Fenner, F 1938 'Some South Australian Scaphocephalic Skulls', in Records of the South Australian Museum, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 143-158. A negative of the x-ray image is also included.