John Percival Bourne's photographs and business papers concerning operations of the first timber mill in Port Macquarie, c.1920s-1992

PXA 990

fonds

c.1920s-1992

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records, Clippings, Cartographic Materials

423824

1 album (55 silver gelatin photoprints, 1 newscutting & 1 photocopied newscutting (album discarded) - 15 x 26 cm. or smaller (photoprints)
1 album (chiefly typescript letters and miscellaneous typescript documents, incl. 1 map, 1 newscutting, 2 envelopes) - foolscap or smaller
Textual Records - 2 lined notebooks - 26 x 21 cm. and 18 x 12 cm.
Textual Records - 1 receipt book containing carbon copies only, originals torn out - 21 x 17 cm.

Photograph album (1-57):
Depicts timber-getting activities and processes chiefly during the 1940s, mainly in and around Wauchope, such as tree-felling, land clearing and transportation of felled timber by road and water. Prepared pre-cut timber and railway sleepers are shown awaiting despatch, there are also images of sand dredging, the Bourne family home, the schooner "Caledonia", mill workers and bullock teams
Documents album (58-76):
58-61. Timber industry on the North Coast of New South Wales [typescript research paper]]
62. Port Macquarie [and coastal regions from Coffs Harbour, south to Taree - map]
63-72. [Various letters addressed to Bourne concerning sawmill business matters, 1926-1953, including 2 envelopes]
73. [Figures chart, n.d.]
74. Obituary - Percival John Bourne, 1953
75. Nicholas Cain, the father of the timber industry on the Hastings [photocopied 1991 newscutting]
76. Whatson Pead talks about trucking and transport [photocopied 1992 newscutting]
Notebooks:
77. [Notebook of business jottings of Bourne, c.1930s-1951]
78. Record of receipt books
79. [Manuscript of Bourne's log calculator, intended for publication. Includes typescript letter of application to Reg. C. Pogonoski publishers, 1949]

Album order preserved

Detailed information inscribed on reverse of most photos, identifying places, processes and people