R.C. Sheridan photographs of Orange and the surrounding district, ca. 1860-1970

fonds

ca. 1860-1970

Graphic Materials, Photographs

69914

Richard C.P. Sheridan
After a long career as an Officer of the Justice Dept., Mr R.C. Sheridan arrived in Orange as Clerk of Petty Sessions in 1936. He was born at Baradine in 1895, the son of Richard and Agnes L. Sheridan, and spent his boyhood at Wee Waa. He joined the Justice Dept. in 1912 and by 1915 he was working at Taree. He was Assistant C.P.S. at Lismore and Albury, and C.P.S. at Ardlethan, Junee, Balranald and Moree before going to Orange. He was the first Orange C.P.S. to be Coroner and Guardian of Minors. He retired in 1956.
As a boy he travelled on Cobb & Co. coaches and later made several trips on paddle steamers on western rivers. In 1928 he was the first Petty Sessions Officer to travel by air at government expense. He has contributed to the press in every town in which he has been stationed.
In 1934 Sheridan married Esther R. Baker in Sydney.
Amazingly Sheridan photographed Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed in Darwin just before it left on the fatal trip to Lae 2 July 1937. He was on a Pioneer coach trip Melbourne-Darwin, via Adelaide and Alice Springs.
Mr Sheridan was also a Director of the National trust of Australia.
Mr Sheridan was instrumental in the formation of the Orange & District Historical Society and was its foundation President for three years and then Treasurer for the next three years. In 1954 he was elected Patron and in 1958 Senior Patron, a position he held at least until 1971.

Reference:
Early Orange / R.C. Sheridan, 1971

Collection was compiled by Mr R.C.P. Sheridan, who was involved with the Orange Historical Society. It includes original photographs and many copy photographs of historical images. Most have been identified with typed notes by Mr Sheridan. There are many duplicates.
Includes a number of wide format photographs of Orange dated 1871, possibly by Beaufoy Merlin (information supplied by Alan Davies, Curator of Photographs); and carte-de-visite photographs, some by Lockie of Orange

SERIES 01
R.C. Sheridan photograph album, 1909-1951

SERIES 02
R.C. Sheridan photographs, ca. 1930’s-1970 and cartes-de-visite, ca. 1862-1875

SERIES 03
Orange Historical Society photographs, ca. 1861-1970 and Orange Centenary souvenir, 1960

SERIES 04
Orange Historical Society photographs, ca. 1861-1967

SERIES 05
Orange Historical Society photographs, ca. 1871-1967

SERIES 06
Orange Historical Society photographs, ca. 1951-1964 copies of originals dating from 1862

SERIES 07
Orange negatives, ca. 1870-1880

SERIES 08
R.C. Sheridan copy transparencies, ca. 1870-1940

Access via appointment - Applies to Series 07 and 08

Copyright restrictions may apply: Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright.

Early Orange : a short history from the Blackman's Swamp days and covering the proclamation of the area as a village and later as a municipality, and recording many interesting facts and happenings prior to 1900 / [by R.C. Sheridan ; edited by F.O. Barr. Orange, N.S.W. : Orange and District Historical Society], 1971

Transferred from the Manuscripts Section (R. C. Sheridan papers). Location number: MLMSS 2610 Mitchell Library.

Some of the photographs in the collection are stamped on the reverse with the Oswald Ziegler Publications’ stamp

Many of the photographs have been identified by Mr Sheridan