• Title
  Series 02: Joseph Jackson pictorial material : Peak Hill and lower Blue Mountains, 1874-1902
• Call number
  ON 456/Boxes 1-2
  PXA 1414
  PXD 978
  XV/33
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1874-1902
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Architectural and Technical Drawings, Textual Records, Photographs, Prints
• Reference code
  152119
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : 1 photograph only selected for digitisation, no. 15
  
• Physical Description
  Textual Records - 1 document
  1 architectural drawing
  2 prints
  13 photographs - gelatin silver, albumen, tintype - 13 x 17 cm. or smaller
  31 photonegatives - glass - 12 x 16.5 cm. or smaller
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Joseph Jackson operated mainly in the Peak Hill, Wellington and Dubbo districts. Albert Mitchell was also a resident of Peak Hill. Joseph Jackson later became Lord Mayor of Sydney in 1931 and Minister for Local Government in 1932
• Scope and Content
  ON 456 / Boxes 1-2
  Includes glass negatives of Faulconbridge House in [Sir Henry] Parkes' time and Springwood [Catholic Church], Peak Hill goldmining and scenes of town after fire in 1900, Peak Hill families and residents, Aboriginal carved trees near Bogan River, between 1897-1900, Untitled bush scenes
  
  PXA 1414
  13 photographs including photoprints of Aboriginal carved trees near Bogan River, between 1897-1900, Tintype of Gibson & Wynne newsagency, photoprint of a church, photoprint of a house and two copies of a photograph of schoolchildren
  
  PXD 978
  Photographs, prints and architectural plan, 1870-1918
  
  Tuscullum, Valley Heights [187-]
  2 photographic prints : albumen, mounted on board.
  Inscribed on reverse "Main Rd., crossing at Single Track ... Judge Foster, Chas Foster, cps Katooba, son of Judge Foster
  
  [Queen Victoria, 188-]
  1 photographic print
  
  Reproduction of portrait of Hon. Henry Parkes by M. S. [Montague Scott] from Supplement to the Illustrated Sydney News, November 1874
  Mounted on board
  
  Notice published in the Government Gazette, 24 Jany 1902 regarding the appointment of Magistrate for the State of New South Wales, 3 Feby 1902.
  Signed "J. Jackson", Peak Hill
  Mounted on board
  
  Plan of group of buildings known as Faulconbridge at Faulconbridge, formerly the residence of the late Sir Henry Parkes, 1918
  Scale 8 feet to 1 inch.
  1 diazotype, mounted on board
  
  XV/33
  A stormy rehearsal [cartoon]
  
  Forms part of MLMSS 8285
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment - Applies to ON 456
• Published Information
  Four pictures reproduced in Historical notes on the earliest days of Peak Hill and district / compiled by Joseph Jackson. 1939. Location Number: 991.6/J in the Mitchell Library
• General note
  
  Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.1477 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012
  Digital order no:a1731001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  'A.G.M' and 'A.G. Mitchell' on outside of several negative envelopes
• Conservation note
  
  One glass negative is broken
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Mitchell, Albert George, 1865-1937
  
• Subject
  Parkes, Henry, Sir, 1815-1896
  Photography--New South Wales--19th century.
  Photography--New South Wales--20th century.
  Photography of families.
  portrait photography
  Mayors--New South Wales--Sydney.
  Aboriginal Australians--Material culture
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  children
  
• Topic
  carved trees
  families
  fire damage
  gold-diggings
  houses
  towns
  children
  churches
  portraits
  
• Place
  Faulconbridge House (Faulconbridge, N.S.W.)
  Peak Hill (N.S.W.)
  St. Thomas Aquinas Church (Hawkesbury Road, Springwood, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3313045

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