Ernest Walter Pratt negatives of Murwillumbah and the Solomon Islands, before 1904

ON 306

fonds

before 1904

Graphic Materials, Photographs

825584

57 negatives - glass - 16.2 x 21.5 cm.

Ernest Walter Pratt was born in Murwillumbah, 16 September 1873. He was a photographer in the 1890's. After obtaining a mariner's engineering certificate in 1900, he worked on boats trading in the islands until just after his marriage 25 October 1902, to Cecilia Harriet Weston. He became a plumber and lived in Annnandale. He died 23 July 1930.

Reference:
Information supplied by his grand-daughter Adel Briggs, May 2011

MURWILLUMBAH REGION

1. Railway tunnel (negative in two pieces)
2-7. Sugar and timber mills, Murwillumbah Region
8-12. Harvest and transport of sugar, Murwillumbah Region
13-16. Unidentified dairy farms or towns, Murwillumbah Region
17. Men in main street of a town and Halliday building
18. Main street with McClean’s store, Australian Joint Stock Bank, M & J Daly saddlery, watchmaker Louis and McLean’s Great Northern Hotel
19. Settler’s hut on stilts
20. Rockhampton Bridge
21. Bridge
22. Explosives in the river
23-26. Sailing ships and steam launch
27. Mine and railway trucks
28. Breakwater with railway
29. Wharf
30-31. Men and women in rowing boats
32. Cow
33. NSWGR locomotive no.115 (later 19 class) hauling a sugar train
34. Wrecked locomotive (later 12 class)
35. Men and railway line near Pioneer Hotel
36. Men and railway line near Railway Terminus Hotel
37. Railway tunnel
38. Men and building with water tank beside railway line
39-42. Australian couples

SOLOMON ISLANDS

43. Portrait of a man
44. Village group
45. Village from the water
46-48. Solomon Islander family
49. Pacific Islands Company Ltd.
50. Priest and Solomon Islanders on a ship
51-53. Solomon Islander women
54-57. Solomon Island settlements

Captioned by cataloguer -- few details were given with the negatives

Dated from Library correspondence file

3 negatives cracked