The laying of the foundation stone of the Commencement Column, Canberra, 1913 and other photographs in New South Wales, ca. 1900-1934 / photographed by George Matthews

ON 323

fonds

ca. 1900-1934

Graphic Materials, Photographs

825499

90 negatives - glass - 16.6 x 12.4 cm or smaller

George Matthews was a professional photographer who according to his stepson K. Herbert worked as a Government photographer and later for the Sun Gravure.

1. Sheep being mustered for shearing
2. Sheep yards
3. Shearing sheep
4-5. Homestead with
6. Rally with banner for the Surry Hills New South Wales Political Labor League (copy negative)
7. Portrait of a woman in 1870s dress (copy negative ca. 1914)
8. Nun, ca. 1900
9-21. The ceremony on Capitol Hill to mark the laying of the foundation stone of the Commencement Column, Canberra, 12th March, 1913
22. Sheep being driven along road
23. Hauling logs on horsedrawn timber jinker
24-25. Bullock team with timber jinker
26. Man in sulky with horse drinking from river
27. Sulky on country road
28. Bullocks and timber jinker
29. Aboriginals New South Wales [photograph of three bark dwellings and seven seated Aboriginals wearing face and body paint]
30. Timber workers sawing logs
31. Group of women cultivating soil
32. Group in Highland costume with bagpipes
33-34. Y.M.C.A. 1 football team, 1918
35. Y.M.C.A. 1st football team
36. Cricket team
37. Amateur Athletics Association, New South Wales
38. Randwick Motor Bus Service – Randwick – Railway via Cleveland St., Allison Rd., Belmore Rd., Canberra St., no. 294
39. Family in T Model Ford, early 1920s
40. Family in motor car at the Great Arch, Jenolan Caves
41. Maurice Farman Hydro-Aeroplane (Hydroplane) imported by Lebbeus Hordern, flown by Guillaux, 1914
42. Train rounding bend in Blue Mountains area
43. Juteopolis Liverpool in port with the tugboat Heroine
44. Man rowing towards ferry
45. Unidentified ship sinking in harbour
46. Cemetery
47. Man in sulky near bridge
48. The arrival of Australia’s new naval fleet including the battle cruiser HMAS Australia, 1913
49. Art deco house “Octavia”
50. Town Hall illuminated at night for the royal visit of the Duke and Duchess of York, March 1927
51. The Sydney Town Hall illuminations marking ANZAC Day 'The Empire Calls', 1915
52. Sun Gravure building, 19-23 Forbes Street, ca. 1930 (Sun Newspaper Ltd.)
53. Shop window front of the Lighthouse Enco Electrical Engineering Co.
54. Olympia Motor Speedway Ltd. building
55. The Manning River Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd.
56- 57. Wedding group
58. Family group with boy playing violin and girl on piano
59. Group seated wearing Christmas hats
60. Group of people picnicking in a field
61. Group picnicking on coast road near Wombarra
62. Group portrait
63. Woman with umbrella
64. Schoolboy
65-67. Child in toy car
68. Child with toy boat on wheels
69. Child in toy wagon, with dog
70. Child with toy wheelbarrow carrying truck
71. Seated child
72. Child on horse playing “cowboys and indians” with another
73-83. Portraits of men in Irish National Foresters Friendly Society regalia decorated with symbols of office (crossed swords for guardian of the door and quill indicating secretary)
84-86. Group of teachers in gas masks
87. Laying foundation stone “To the Glory of God”, Moderator Rev. D. F. Brandt, November 1934
88. Group of people on verandah
89. Hurricane RAAF fighter crashed on beach
90. Bus and motor car in the Blue Mountains

No. 21: negative is broken