• Title
  A.E. Lawrence, two photographic prints of Methodist missionaries and Aboriginal Australians at Goulburn Island, Arnhem Land, 1916 / attributed to Ted Ryko
• Creator
  A. E. Lawrence
• Call number
  MPG/173
  MPG/174
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1916
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  971376
• Issue Copy
  Digitised : 2015
  
• Physical Description
  2 photographic prints - gelatin silver - 23 x 30 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Constance Amy Corfield was appointed as a missionary teacher to the newly created Mission Station on Goulburn Island (Arnhem Land) in 1916 by the Department of Overseas Missions of the Methodist Church. She was the first white women on the Island when she arrived on the 5th September 1916. She worked on Goulburn Island until 1920 when she returned to Sydney.
  Reference:
  Library correspondence files
• Scope and Content
  MPG 173
  First service held at Goulburn Island, Arnhem Land, 1916. Image shows 4 missionaries giving a service to Aboriginal Australians on Jesus walking on the sea. Missionaries are Rev. James Watson, Miss Amy Corfield, Mr. & Mrs. A.E. Lawrence.
  
  MPG 174
  First building at Goulburn Island, Arnhem Land, 1916. Image is of a two-storey building with missionaries and Aboriginal Australians in foreground. Missionaries are Miss Amy Corfield, Rev. James Watson, Mrs. Lawrence, Mr. Lawrence.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.2153 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1319137
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Attributed to the photographer Ted Ryko. Ryko was based in Darwin and visited Goulburn Island from 1 December 1916 through to 4 January 1917 (validated by the diary of Amy Corfield, who was a teacher at the mission on the Island). Amy Corfield mentions that Mr Ryko visited and brought lots of postcards and took photographs. An identical photograph (but not cropped) to MPG 173 is held by the Northern Territory Library.
  
  References:
  Amy Corfield diary kept on South Goulburn Island Mission, 16 August 1916 - 15 August 1919, with transcription by Deborah Stumer, 2008 (MLMSS 7880)
  
  Northern Territory Library. `Church Service / Ted Ryko’ (PH0413/0045). http://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au/handle/10070/30233 (accessed 30 July 2014)
  
  Information from the granddaughter of the photographer, July 2014
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Ryko, Ted
  
• Name
  Corfield, Amy, 1888-1968
  Lawrence, A. E.
  Watson, James (missionary)
  
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians--Australia, Northern--Pictorial works.
  Aboriginal Australians--Missions--Northern Territory--Goulburn Islands.
  Women missionaries.
  Methodist Church--Missions--Northern Territory--Arnhem Land.
  Lay missionaries--Northern Territory.
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  churches
  groups (people)
  indigenous people
  missionaries
  missions (church settlements)
  teachers
  body-marking
  
• Place
  Goulburn Islands (N.T.)
  Arnhem Land (N.T.)
  
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