Dickson Gregory collection of drawings and photographs of ships, 1853-1973 / by C. Dickson Gregory, J.H. Gregory and A.V. Gregory

PXD 519

fonds

1853-1973

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Clippings, Photographs

825826

46 albums - chiefly black and white, with some sepia, col. and hand-tinted photographs and drawings - various sizes

Charles Dickson Gregory was born ca. 1871 to George and Elizabeth Ann Gregory (nee Smith). He was a founding member of the Shiplover’s Society of Victoria, where he was the first vice-president in 1930. He was also a contributor to their annual publication, ‘The Annual Dog Watch’.

His published works include, ‘Australian steamships : past and present’ / by Dickson Gregory ; with a foreword by Sir Granville Ryrie. London : The Richards Press, 1928; ‘The romance of the "Edina" : the world's oldest screw-steamship : with chapters on the auxiliary steamship "Great Britain", and the Port Phillip Bay Steamers past and present’ / by C. Dickson Gregory. Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens, 1935. On the fly-leaf to this publication, Gregory has been described by “his love for and his interest in shipping and his researches in shipping lore to which he has devoted his life, he has become the historian of Australian steamships”.

He died in 1947 near Frankston, Victoria, aged 76 years.

James Henry Gregory was the nephew of Charles Dickson Gregory.

Arthur Victor Gregory was born in 1867 in Melbourne, the third son of George Frederick Gregory, from his second marriage. He took over his father's Gregory Studios in South Melbourne and worked there as a marine painter from the late nineteenth century. He died in Melbourne in 1957.

References:
‘The Annual Dog Watch’. Issue no. 1, 1943; issue no. 2, 1944; issue no. 5, 1948.
Victorian Birth, Deaths and Marriages. CD-Rom.
Mitchell Library files and Mitchell Picture Notes: PXn 723.
Australian steamships : past and present / by Dickson Gregory ; with a foreword by Sir Granville Ryrie. London: The Richards Press, 1928.
The romance of the "Edina" : the world's oldest screw-steamship : with chapters on the auxiliary steamship "Great Britain", and the Port Phillip Bay Steamers past and present / by C. Dickson Gregory. Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens, 1935.

The collection was compiled by C. Dickson Gregory and includes 31 albums of photographs, some from original paintings, and cuttings (v.1-31), 14 brochures (v.32-45) and one portfolio (v.46) containing 9 watercolours, 8 pencil drawings and 53 black & white, sepia and colour photographs.

A contents list for the collection is filed at the Mitchell Library Special Collections reference shelf, together with an index to v.1-31, compiled by Vaughan Evans, and a detailed contents list for v.46.

The online indexes consist of information and notes taken from volumes 1-26, compiled by Grahame Bickford and others

Albums:
v.1-2 Australian Coastal Steamers
v.3 Ships in port
v.4-8 Sailing ships
v.9-10 Overseas steamers
v.11-13 Steamers, miscellaneous
v.14 Overseas liners, later period
v.15 Steamers, miscellaneous
v.16 Notable steamers, later period
v.17 Steamers
v.18 Shipwrecks
v.19 Miscellaneous
v.20 Newspaper cuttings of EDINA
v.21 Miscellaneous
v.22-24 Pictorial newspaper & other cuttings
v.25 General newspaper & other cuttings
v.26 Pictorial newspaper & other cuttings
v.27 Typewritten notes
v.28 General newspaper & other cuttings
v.29 General newspaper & other cuttings
v.30 Non-maritime – photos of overseas trips
v.31 Newspaper & other cuttings

Brochures, etc:
v.32 The Shipbuilder and Marine Engineer, June 1936. [special issue, features RMS Queen Mary]. Includes pasted down photos and cuttings.
v.33 The Shipbuilder and Marine Engineer, June 1935. Souvenir number [Q.T.S.S.] Normandie. Includes pasted down photos and cuttings.
v.34 Mauretania [souvenir book]
v.35/1 Cunarder 534 [RMS Queen Mary]. Souvenir brochure and photographic review.
v.35/2 Illustrations accompanying v.35, mounted in folder
v.36 [P & O calendar for 1938]
v.37 Fine art photographic views
v.38 Harland & Wolff Ltd.
v.39 Huddart Parker Limited, 1876-1926
v.40 Survivors of a glorious era, 1925 -1928
v.41 Souvenir of the launching of RMS Aquitania
v.42 The new ‘Mauretania” souvenir brouchure
v.43 Going abroad via Cunard and Anchor lines
v.44 Port of Melbourne quarterly
v.45 [RMS] Canberra brochure

Portfolio:
v.46 Collection of drawings and photographs of ships, by C. Dickson Gregory, J.H. Gregory and A.V. Gregory.

Illustrated magazine cuttings and photographs of ships from the Dixson Gregory

Access via appointment - Applies to volumes 4, 8, 9, 11

Copyright restrictions may apply: Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Index to volumes available online - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2012/D12152/a3251.pdf

v.46 : Three watercolours are signed ‘J.Gregory’; one is signed on back ‘C. Dickson Gregory’.
Two photographs of drawings are by ‘A.V. Gregory’ and ‘C.Dickson Gregory’.
Seven watercolours and eight drawings are unsigned, all probably by C. Dickson Gregory.
Eleven works are dated; dates range from 1853-1973. Most of the ships are identified.