Series 2: Glass negatives of New South Wales and South Australia including wartime scenes; army training camps; Mortlake Gasworks, 1917 strike; university students; tours and holidays, ca. 1910-1931 / chiefly photographed by Leonard Sothern Beckett

ON 337

series

ca. 1910-1931

Graphic Materials, Photographs

825374

467 negatives (12 boxes) - glass - 16.8 x 12 cm or smaller

BOX 1
1-4. Manly Beach and Lifesaving Club, ca. 1910
5. Unidentified beach
6-7. Students at Sydney University
8. Sydney Customs House
9. Construction of Public Instruction Offices, from Phillip Street, ca. 1912
10. Looking south from Circular Quay towards Hotel Australia
11. Unidentified building
12. Copy photograph of engraving ‘Proposed Bridge from near Dawe’s Point, Sydney to near Milson’s Point, North Shore, 1857’
13. Copy photograph ‘Gin and water’

BOX 2.
1-38. Adelaide Railway Station, Langs Bay Pier, Port Adelaide, Glenelg Pier, Scott Hotel, Torrens River, inter-varsity shooting match, rowing, athletics, unidentified people

BOX 3
1. Crowd in George St. watching the Joseph Hammond flight over the city, 1911
2. Central Railway decorations for coronation of King Edward VII, 1902
3-12. The Mortlake Gas Works during the 1917 strike : Sydney University dental undergraduates and other volunteer students and labourers, the volunteers’ camp at Mortlake, students signing on at Kent St.
13-34. Army training camp at La Perouse, 1913
35-39. Army training camp at Liverpool, Easter 1914

BOX 4
1-15. Army training camp, possibly Adelaide
16-24 S.C.E.G.S. sport
25-38. Sydney university students street parade

BOX 5
1-11. Sydney University scenes
12-32. Mosman Spit 1910, Coogee Beach, departure of ocean liner, ‘Blind Billy’, Dot Hayward, unidentified people
33-40. Coogee, yachts, unidentified beach, flower arrangements

BOX 6
1-15. Homestead at Rydal, Mar. 1910, Katoomba falls 1914, Leura, picnic groups
16-30. Walking tour 1914 Xmas vacation : bush scenes, camping, houses
31-42. Bondi Beach showing newly planted Norfolk Pines ca. 1910, the Mitchells family at Manly, camping and country scenes, Blue Mountains scenes, unidentified people

BOX 7
1-18. Honeymoon at Campbelltown, 1915, river scenes
19-27. Blue Mountains Mar. 1910, Rock with sign ‘Windonia Camp 1910-1911’, Jameson Valley
28-45. Austinmer 1911, outdoors service for the death of King Edward VII, May 1910, dental students and rooms, unidentified people

BOX 8
1-16. Leura, Austinmer, university students, Mrs Hennessey, unidentified people
17-32. Wartime scenes, Australia Day fair, Recruiting Campaign Exhibition Building, street parades, bomb shelters
33-41. Circular Quay, unidentifed warships and sailing ships
42-50. Street parades including victory parades

BOX 9
1-19. Hotel Adelaide, boating picnics, motoring trips with motorbikes and sidecars, street parades, soldiers, country scenes
20-35. Kosciuszko motoring trip
36-47. Tasmania 1911, bush and coast scenes

BOX 10
1-12. Campbelltown – honeymoon, unidentifed church, river scenes, country house
13-19. Ocean cruise deck games, camping scenes
20-30. Coogee, 1910, Lane Cove River, beach, bush and river scenes, yachts
31-46. House party, possibly Thirroul or Stanwell Park, pre-1914

BOX 11
1-30. Walking tour, 1914, camping scenes, buildings, portraits
31-45. Camping and beach holiday

BOX 12
1-17. Blue Mountains : Jenolan Bridge from Lucas Lookout, Caves House, Orphan Rock, Explorers tree, Leura scenery, Katoomba
18-24. Tasmania ca. 1919, water tower, yacht race

ON 337/Box 1, 3, 4, 5, Box 6/1-15 and Box 8/17-50 : related prints at PXB 459/Box 2
ON 337/Box 2 : related prints at PXB 459/Box 1
ON 337/Boxes 6-7, Box 8/1-16, Box 10/31-46, Box 11-12 : related prints at PXB 459/Box 5