Drawings, plans and photographs relating to Alexander Berry [1803], 1856-1906

PXA 564
PXD 1372
PXX 99

fonds

[1803], 1856-1906

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Architectural and Technical Drawings, Drawings

825399

32 photographic prints - 23 sepia, 6 black & white, 1 black & white aquatint, 2 half-tone reproductions - 43 x 28 cm or smaller
11 drawings - 4 pencil, 3 watercolour, 2 pencil & ink, 1 ink & wash and 1 silhouette - 31 x 75.5 cm or less
15 architectural drawings - pen & ink - 57.2 x 87.7 cm or less

PXA 564 (1 box)
This collection includes photographs by Samuel Cocks, Falk Studio, Sarony and others. The portraits include members of the Berry, Shelly and Hay families (Alexander Berry, Sir Percy Florence Shelley, Bessie Florence Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Captain Wingfield, John Hay) 1856 to 1890. There are also photographic views of Coolangatta Station, views of timber clearing on the Shoalhaven Estate and road construction for the Berry to Nowra road, river transport on Broughton’s Creek, 1890’s, a photograph of Conrad Marten’s oil painting, photographs at the family residence in England, c 1867.
1. Alexander Berry, 1st March 1856
2a-b. Alexander Berry, 1860?
3. Lady Shelley [Jane], ca.1856
4. Sir P. Shelley [Sir Percy Florence Shelley], ca.1856
5. Flossie Shelley [Adopted daughter of Sir Percy & Lady Shelley], ca.1856
6. Sir Percy Shelley in the character of Furley in the Lighthouse, ca.1867
7. Captain Wingfield as Lord Bateman and Lady Shelley as the Fair Sophia, ca.1867
8. Floss as Lettice, ca.1867
9. Scene from Lord Bateman, ca.1867 [Title in pencil on verso, four figures, Captain Wingfield as Lord Bateman, Lady Shelley at the Fair Sophia, Flossie Shelley as Letttice]
10. Mrs Woolstonecraft [sic] [Mary Wollstonecraft], ca.1803
11. David Hay [father of Sir John Hay (1840-1909)], ca.1881-1888
12. A. Hay, 1894
13. H. Osborne, A. Hay, H.D. Morton, Berry Squadron Lancers, 1896
14. Alexander Hay seated, 1901
16. Party on visit at Coolangatta House [group of sixteen includes Mrs Hay, the Misses Hay and Alexander Hay], 189-?
17. Frank Thomas Bullen, 1906
18. School girls with teacher
19. Mount Coolangatta 1860 by Conrad Martens,
20. Boscombe, 1859
21. At Back Forest Whf, 189-?
Series of 5 black and white photographs of the Berry Nowra region, ca. 189-?
22a. Ferry
22b. On road Berry to Nowra a couple of miles from cemetery
22c. Clearing of Berry Nowra Rd
22d. Clearer's hut Berry Nowra Rd
22e. Coolangatta House buildings

PXD 1372 (1 box)
1. Drawing of Crows Nest House used for Berry’s reminiscences, 1912 (?) (Photographs List: 4)
2. Photograph of Crows Nest House after remodeling, 1890s (Photographs List: 5)
3. Caricature of Alex Hay, signed L.F. Reynolds (Photographs List: 6)
4. Photograph of unidentified young girl in garden, not after 1984
5. Drawing of the Provision Stores, Shoalhaven, 1841-1842 and pen and pencil sketch of unidentified man (Documents List: 41) (Berry, Alexander)
6. Very early watercolour of Berry’s property at Coolangatta (Documents List: 232)
7. Pencil watercolour of cottages at Mr Berry’s wharf (Documents List: 233)
8. Three sketches of unidentified men and on silhouette of an unidentified woman (no date) (Documents List: 318)

PXX 99 (1 folder)
1. Plan of Berry and Hay Mauseleum at Coolangatta (Documents List: 21)
2. Plan of Coolangatta House (no date). Stamped: ‘IN Brankruptcy/COR: MANNING, J/8 May 90/Hay & anor [another] v Simpson/EX: B.’ - used as an exhibit in Berry will dispute – George Simpson against John Hay & James Norton (Documents List: 41) (Berry, Alexander)
3. Sketch of Coolangatta [Estate] by Alexander Berry, ca. 1824 (Alexander Berry) (Document List: 41)
4. Plan of a cottage for Alex. Berry Esq., drawn by J. Hume, July 25/38. (Documents List: 179)
5. Plan of Coolangatta House (no date) (Berry, Alexander) (Documents List: 187)
6. Profile of No. 238, S.S. Meeinderry, 1883 (part of correspondence and agreements re building of the ship – a screw steamer) (Stamped ‘T.B. Seath & Co.; Whitson & Co., Iron & Coal Merchants, Glasgow) (Documents List: 251)
7. Pumping arrangement No. 238, S.S. Meeinderry, 1883 (Stamped ‘T.B. Seath & Co.; Whitson & Co., Iron & Coal Merchants, Glasgow)
8. Plan of pumping arrangement in engine room of S.S. Meeinderry, No. 152, 1883 (Stamped: Kingcaid & Co., Drawing Office, Greenock)
9. Arrangement of engines and boiler no. 176, 1883 (Stamped: Kingcaid & Co., Drawing Office, Greenock)
10. Arrangement plan No. 256, S.S. Coomonderry, 1886 (Stamped ‘T.B. Seath & Co., Shipbuilders, Rutherglen; Wm. Ashby & Co. … London, Shipping & Insurance Agents, Licensed Passenger Broker) (Berry Estate) (Documents List: 255)
11. Displacement scale S.S. No. 256, 1886 (Stamped ‘T.B. Seath & Co., Shipbuilders, Rutherglen; Wm. Ashby & Co. … London, Shipping & Insurance Agents, Licensed Passenger Broker) (Documents List: 256)
12. Longitudinal section and cabin plan of steel. S.S., presumably of ‘Coomonderry’, 22 Sept. 1885 (Stamped ‘T.B. Seath & Co., Shipbuilders, Rutherglen) (Berry & Wollstonecraft) (Documents List: 257) (paper brittle, broken into two pieces)
13. Rigging plan no. 256, S.S. Coomonderry (no date) (Stamped ‘T.B. Seath & Co., Shipbuilders, Rutherglen)
14. Rigging plan of steel. S.S., 22 Sept. 1885 (Stamped ‘T.B. Seath & Co., Shipbuilders, Rutherglen) (paper brittle, broken into eight pieces)
15. Profile of steel steamer to class 100 A.1 at Lloyds, 1883 (Stamped ‘T.B. Seath & Co., Shipbuilders, Rutherglen; Whitson & Co., Iron & Coal Merchants, Glasgow) (Berry Estate) (Documents List: 259)
16. Arrangement of engine and boiler, 1885 (Documents List: 260)
17. Sketch of arrangement of steel to S.S. to class 100 A.1 at Lloyds, 1883 (Stamped ‘T.B. Seath & Co., Shipbuilders, Rutherglen; Whitson & Co., Iron & Coal Merchants, Glasgow) (Documents List: 261, dated 1893 in list)
18. Screw steamer plan, 1882 (Alexr. Stephen & Sons, Shipbuilders & Engineers, Glasgow; Drawing no. 2862)

Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room

Many of the photographs are titled on the verso in pencil or ink.

Numbers used for items are for clarity and have not been assigned to items.

Numbers in brackets refer to list in Correspondence File: Hays and Berry Estates - Letters, Documents, etc.

Note on envelope: Plans of the steamers S.S. Meeinderry (1882-1883) and S.S. Coomondery (1885-1886) were enclosed in letters from John Hay (in Scotland) to David Berry (at ‘Coolangatta’)

Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.5597 as part of the eRecords Project 2013-14
Part of the papers of the Berry Collection at MLMSS 315.
PXX 99 transferred from PXD 1372/Box 2, 21 November 2023