Series 1: Photographic prints of New South Wales and South Australia including wartime scenes; army training camps; university students; ships; tours and holidays, ca. 1910-1931 / chiefly photographed by Leonard Sothern Beckett

PXB 459

series

ca. 1910-1931

Graphic Materials, Photographs

825380

1,422 photographic prints (5 boxes) - gelatin silver - 7.2 x 4.8 cm or smaller

BOX 1 (467 photographs in 26 envelopes)
1. Crowd in George St. watching the Joseph Hammond flight over the city, 1911
2. Motoring trip – Yamba area : Mrs A.H. Gilligan’s Wartime Cafe, Royal Hotel, river scenes
3. A3A first outing
4. The Aurora sailing ship in Sydney Harbour, British fleet, street parade
5. American fleet 1925
6. Sydney University, Coogee, boating and racecourse scenes, ships, trains
7. Manning River and crossing
8. Motoring trip, flooded road, bogged cars
9. Unveiling of memorial, possibly to Henry Lawson
10-12. Motoring trip, camping, farms, shearing shed, boat cruise and picnics
13-19. Cycle tour Tasmania 1916, Collaroy camping trip 1917, Kangaroo Valley 1921, Mackeral Beach 1921, Tuggerah lakes 1923, Lilian Fels 1924
20-24. Garie Beach 1930, Woy Woy 1931, Koscuisko, Muswellbrook, Richmond
25. Adelaide Railway Station, Largs Bay Pier, Port Adelaide, Glenelg Pier, Scott Hotel, Torrens River, unidentified people
26. Inter-varsity shooting match

BOX 2 (288 photographs in 21 envelopes)
1-4. Army training camp at Liverpool, 1914
5-9. Army training camp at La Perouse, 1913
10. Army camp, possibly Adelaide
11. Street parades including victory parades
12. Mortlake gas works, midnight shift
13. Manly beach ca. 1910, Sydney University students, Customs House, construction of Public Instruction Offices, city buildings
14. Sydney University students parade and floats
15. Sydney University students, display cases, buildings
16. S.C.E.G.S. sport – tennis, athletics
17. Wartime scenes, Australia Day fair, Recruiting Campaign Exhibition Building, street parades, bomb shelters
18. Warships and training ship Sobraon, Circular Quay
19. City buildings including St. Marys Cathedral, Mosman Spit, departure of ocean liner, ‘Blind Billy’, unidentified people
20. Yachts
21. Harbourside factory, picnic group, waterfall, unidentified house

BOX 3 (436 photographs in 16 envelopes)
1. Travel photographs and postcards from an ocean cruise: Mt. Eden, Auckland, unidentified racecourse
2-3. Fiji
4. Honolulu
5-8. San Francisco, Tahiti, Boston
9-13. Rochester, Mayo Clinic, Mayo experimental farm, Washington, Baltimore, New York
14-16. Chicago, Niagara Falls, Canada, Rockies

BOX 4 (180 photographs in 11 envelopes)
1. Postcards of New York
2. Postcards of San Francisco
3. Postcards of Auckland
4. Postcards of Lake Louise
5. Boat cruise deck games, Vancouver
6. Melbourne Aquarium, unidentified river and mountain scenes, towns, railways
7. Military parades
8-11. Cars, motorbikes, unidentified people, dentists, nurses, athletes, buildings, graveyards

BOX 5 (51 photographs in 10 envelopes)
1. House party, probably Thirroul or Stanwell, pre-1914
2. Walking tour 1914
3. Camping and beach holiday
4. Katoomba 1910
5. Walking tour 1914 Xmas vacation
6. Kanimbla Valley, Blue Mts., Mitchells – Manly, unidentified people
7. Boating scene
8. Rock with sign ‘Windonia Camp 1910-1911’, Blue Mountains, March 1910
9. Dental students and rooms, outdoors service for the death of King Edward VII, May 1910
10. Leura, Austinmer, unidentified people