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Title
Mort family pictorial material and realia, ca. 1857-ca. 1910
Call number
PXD 993
ON 291
MIN 426
R 973
R 974
Level of description
series
Date

ca. 1857-ca. 1910
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings, Prints, Ephemera, Objects
Reference code
430589
Issue Copy
Digitised : PXD 993
Physical Description
Photographs - 127 cartes de visite - albumen, silver gelatin & col. photoprints (some copy)
Photographs - 16 copy photonegatives - 6 x 8 cm.
8 drawings - watercolour & pencil - ca. 20 x 30 cm. or smaller
2 prints - lithographs (1 col.) - ca. 20.7 x 27 cm.
Ephemera - 8 postcards (printed) - 9 x 14 cm.
2 paperknives - ivory ; bronze - 33.4 x 4 cm. (ivory) and 27.3 x 2.2 cm. (bronze)
1 scarf - silk - 72 x 72 cm.
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

For a biography of Thomas S. Mort, see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Online (website)
Scope and Content
Exterior and interior views of Greenoaks [Bishopscourt], Darling Point, 1880s, residence built for Thomas Sutcliffe Mort.
Family portraits including Laidley Mort, Mrs Henry Mort, T. S. Mort statue.
Mort's Dock and Engineering Co. and Mort & Co. photographs.
Also watercolour drawings of Bodalla region, Comerang House, 1875-1898.

PXD 993
1-12. Eton College (England), 1857-1862 (incl. Laidley as Capt. of Boats)
13. Green Oaks, Widness
14. The Rectory, Astley, Lancashire
15. Thomas Mort - portrait on which his statue in Macquarie Place is based / Freeman
16. Thomas Mort and his wife (copy of 1846 portrait ?)
17. Mitty Mitchell, daughter of Elizabeth Carter Mitchell nee Laidley [cdv] / Mr & Mrs Oswald Allen
18. Maria (Mrs Henry) Mort, nee Laidley [cdv] / James Mudd, Manchester
19. Mrs James Laidley, mother of Theresa [copy]
20. Theresa (Mrs Thomas) Mort [copy]
21-22. Mr Lesley and Mrs Herriot [copy]
23. [Woman in a horsedrawn trap, ca. 1900]
24. Rosebank, Darlinghurst, [panel photograph, 1906] / T.S. Muir
25-27. Mort, Dight, Laidley and Macaulay family groups taken the day before Eva Mort and Nellie Dight were drowned and two days before Nellie Dight's sister was bitten by a snake and died, [ca. 1896-1897] / G.A. Drinkwater (no.26)
28. Mort family group, drawing room, Greenoakes
29. James Laidley Mort - portrait [aged ca. 5 years old, copy] / Freeman
30. Special constables, Great Strike, corner Phillip & Hunter Streets, Sydney, 1890
31. [Soldier and grotto]
32. James Turquand Laidley - grave, Waverley Cemetery
33. Thomas S. Mort in horsedrawn trap, Mort's Dock
34. Unveiling T.S. Mort statue / Enterprise Photo Coy.
35. Thomas S. Mort statue
36. Launch of the second pilot steamship Captain Cook, Mort's Dock, 18 Dec 1892 / Henry King
37. C.Arthur Willie Mort and Shep Laidley (?) / Dames & Hayes, San Francisco
38-54. Greenoakes House, Cottage, Lodge, tennis courts, gardens and the Harbour / various artists (inc. J.Degotardi, Charles Moore)
55-76. Interiors and exteriors, Greenoakes, ca. 1861-1910 [copies]
77. Jack Mort, Greenoakes drive
78. Rose Bank, Darlinghurst [copy of watercolour, similar to ML SV1/Res/Ros/1]
79. Lodge, Greenoakes and Darling Point Road, 1866 [copy]
80. View from Edgecliff House, 1868 [copy] / Thomas Moore
81-82. Greenoakes [exterior]
83. Library, Greenoakes
84-103. [Interiors, exteriors, garden and view, Greenoakes]

Drawings of Bodalla
104-105. Grave of T.S. Mort, Bodalla, 1898 [watercolour]
106. Comerang House, Bodalla, 1883 [watercolour]
107. Comerang, Bodalla, lower road, 1883 [watercolour]
108. View on the Tuross River from Horse ("Corundah") Island, 15 Feb 1875 [pencil drawing]
109. Wogonga River 19 Mar 1875 [wash drawing] / SH or HS
110. Wittakers Creek gold diggings Feb 25 1875 [wash drawing] / SH or HS
111. Comerang House suggested plan, Bodalla, Mar 1875 [wash drawing] / SH or HS

112-116. Photographs of Mort Building, Circular Quay, ca. 1886-1900 [copies] / H.King; Kerry & Co.
117. Crowd and concert, Hyde Park, ca. 1910 [copy] / Kerry Photo no. 1724, Sydney
118. Last sale in the Sydney Wool Exchange, 11 Macquarie Place, 26 June 1975 (incl. key to the brokers)

O'Connor Family
119. Aunt Min Harriet (?), son & daughter (?)
120. Richard (Pat) O'Connor, eldest KIA World War I, Uncle Arthur's brother
121. Arthur O'Connor, his mother and daughter Anne
122. [Horsemen] postcard

Sydney
123. Manly Beach [postcard]
124. Mosman's Bay, Sydney no.7 [postcard]
125. King Street looking west, 1854 [Tyrrell's Old Sydney postcard]
126. George Street looking south and Royal Hotel, 1854 [Tyrrell's Old Sydney postcard]
127. Bridge Street looking east, 1854 [Tyrrell's Old Sydney postcard]
128. Customs House, 1855 [Tyrrell's Old Sydney postcard]
129. Australian Club, ca. 1870
130. Paddle steamer, Middle Head
131. H.Rainaud's restaurant La Corniche
132. Conservatory, Bathurst Park
133. Hornby Lighthouse, South Head [stereograph]
134. Sydney Harbour from Greenwich
135. Royal Exchange, 1861 [copy] / Norman L. Danvers
136. Australian Museum and Hyde Park steps
137. Yarranabbee, the house of the Jackson family
138-140. Steam launches Albatross and Leveret
141. Double Bay, 1898 [copy] / Tyrrell's
142. Double Bay [copy] / H.King
143. Port Jackson - Double Bay from the Dower House, later the grounds of Ascham [copy of a drawing]
144. Port Jackson, New South Wales [lithograph] / S.Prout, J.Saddler. London : Virtue, [s.d.] -- in ink on the reverse: "Mort, McBride Avenue, Hunters Hill"
145. Broulee, New South Wales [col. lithograph] / S.Prout, T.Heawood. London : Virtue, [s.d.]

ON 291
1. Mrs James Laidley, mother of Theresa
2-4. Lesley Herriot & Mrs Herriot
5-6. Mr Herriot (?)
7-15. [Drawing rooms and dining room, Greenoakes ?]

MIN 426
Carte de visite of Laidley Mort, timber frame, ca. 1857-1862 / London Stereoscopic Co.

R 973 a-b
a. [James Laidley Mort - ivory paper knife]
b. [Bronze oriental paper knife]

R 974
James Laidley Mort, pale blue silk Eton scarf, 1857
Access Conditions

Access via appointment - Applies to ON 291, MIN 426, R 973 and R 974
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

Digital order no:Album ID : 852734
Signatures / Inscriptions

Chiefly titled, inscribed in pen by James Laidley Mort's son
Creator/Author/Artist
Allen, Oswald H.
Danvers, Norm
Drinkwater, George A.
Enterprise Photo. Coy
Freeman & Co. Ltd
Kerry & Co
King, Henry, 1855-1923
London Stereoscopic Company
Moore, Charles, 1820-1905
Muir, T. S.
Tyrrell's Limited
Name
Albatross (paddle steamer)
Captain Cook (pilot boat)
Dight family
Goldsbrough, Mort and Company Limited
Herriot family
Laidley family
Leveret (steam launch)
Macaulay family
Mort, Theresa Shepheard
Mort's Dock and Engineering Company
O'Connor family
Subject
Adult Females
Adult Males
children
Mort, Thomas Sutcliffe, 1816-1878.
Topic
interiors
engineering works
families
groups (people)
houses
portraits
wool industry
Place
Bishopscourt (Darling Point, N.S.W.)
Bodalla (N.S.W.)
Broulee Beach (N.S.W.)
Goldsbrough, Mort & Co. (Circular Quay, N.S.W.)
Greenoaks (Darling Point, N.S.W.)
Hunter Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Hyde Park (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Macquarie Place (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Mort's Dock and Engineering Company (Balmain, N.S.W.)
Mort's Wool Stores (Circular Quay, Sydney, N.S.W.)
Phillip Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Rose Bank (Darlinghurst, N.S.W.)
Sydney (N.S.W.)
Tuross River (N.S.W.)
Wool Exchange (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Yarranabbe (residence : Sydney, N.S.W.)
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