• Title
  Album of views of 'Thornthwaite', Dartbrook, N.S.W., approximately 1860-1869 / Joseph Docker and Judge E. B. Docker ; Floral album of Docker family portraits; small album of New England views, approximately 1900-1911
• Creator
  Ernest Brougham Docker, 1842-1923
• Call number
  PXE 1088/Boxes 1-2
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  approximately 1860-1958
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs, Drawings, Watercolours, Ephemera, Paintings, Clippings
• Reference code
  125386
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : 13 Thornthwaite images
  
• Physical Description
  39 photographs - albumen photoprints - 25.0 x 17.5 cm or smaller
  1 album (79) - albumen photoprints - 29.5 x 24.0 cm
  1 album (87 cartes de visite and 11 cabinet card photographs) - 27 x 22 cm (album)
  1 album (12 photographic prints) - silver gelatin - 14.0 x 13.5 cm (album)
  1 folder (watercolours, paintings, clippings, ephemera, drawings, photographic prints and ephemera items (postcards), photographic prints) - watercolours, paintings, clippings, prints - 25.0 x 33.5 cm (folder)
  
• Scope and Content
  PXE 1088/Box 1
  Item 1
  Album of views taken by Joseph Docker and E.B. Docker, approximately 1860-1869, of the Docker family residence, Thornthwaite, 11 miles from Scone on the Dartbrook River, N.S.W., as well as the Jamieson Valley & Queen's Cascade, Blue Mountains, Sydney Harbour views, Adelaide and New Zealand.
  
  Item 2
  33 photographic prints - mostly portraits and family portraits
  
  Item 3
  Folder of items that were loose in albums. Includes ephemera (such as postcards), small water colours and paintings, pencil sketches, pen sketches, clippings and a funeral notice of Charles Smith Hannington
  
  PXE 1088/Box 2
  Item 1
  Album of cartes de visite & cabinet card portraits and loose photoprints of Docker family as well as Tucker, Barker & Butler families, mainly photographed by Freeman & Co. and J. Herbert Newman, Sydney.
  
  Item 2
  Small album of New England views, approximately 1900-1911
  
  Item 3
  6 photographic prints wrapped in white paper. 5 are portraits 1 is of 3 people working
  
  Reference:
  'Our Artistic Workers: Mr Justice Docker', The Australian Phototgraphic Journal, August 20, 1908, pp.225-236. Location Number: DS 770.5/1 vol.17, General Reference Library (Photocopy available at PXN 893, Original Materials Reading Room, Mitchell Library)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  No.1 (pp.12-13 The Dartbrook) reproduced in The Australian Photographic Journal, Aug 20, 1908 pp.226-227
• General note
  
  Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.1349 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012
  Digital order no:Album ID : 846535
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Album No.1 "1869" on flyleaf of album
  Album No.2 "C. M. Docker June 25th 1881, from E. B. D." on flyleaf of album
  Album No.3 "W. B. Docker from M. R. B., 20-6-11" inside front cover
  Most photoprints are titled
• Conservation note
  
  Floral album is fragile. 'Thornthwaite' album's back cover has detached
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Freeman & Co. Ltd
  Newman, J. H. (John Hubert), 1830-1916
  
• Name
  Docker, Ernest Brougham, 1842-1923
  Docker family
  Docker, Joseph, 1802-1884
  Piddington family
  Tucker family
  Hannington, Charles Smith
  
• Subject
  Rivers--New South Wales.
  Waterfalls--New South Wales.
  Photography of families.
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  children
  
• Place
  Blue Mountains (N.S.W. : Mountains)
  Clarens (Potts Point, N.S.W.)
  Greenknowe (Potts Point, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Thornthwaite (Dartbrook, N.S.W.)
  Adelaide (S. Aust.)
  New Zealand
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE941456

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