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837479
  • Title
    Item 22: Views in Sydney and New South Wales, ca. 1909-1944 / Dr John I.C. Cosh
  • Call number
    PX*D 639
  • Level of description
    file
  • Date

    ca. 1909-1944
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    837479
  • Physical Description
    251 drawings - watercolour and pencil - various sizes
  • Scope and Content
    The collection includes views of houses, homesteads, buildings, bridges, churches, industrial sites and landmarks in Sydney and suburbs, the Parramatta and Hills district, the South Coast, Berrima and the Southern Highlands. Also included are sketches of ships and ferries on Sydney Harbour, beaches and waterways, and some views in Tasmania and New Zealand.

    1. Jail from river, January 1922
    2. MacDonnell's slab. Oldbury Street, Berrima, ca.1935
    3. Berrima, 1922 ...
    4. Holy Trinity, Berrima, 1922. Built 1878
    5. Back Belvue & Miss Hopkins n.d. Old bakehouse still standing 1922-3
    6. Back Courthope from Wingecarribee Street, 1922
    7. Courthope, Berrima
    8. Berrima, circa 1923 ...
    9. Cronulla, circa 1910
    10. Gunnamatta Bay about 1909
    11. Cronulla - Gunnamatta Bay about 1901
    12. Cronulla, circa 1915 about where Ewos Parade now is
    13. Pigeon house, Strathclyde 1919.
    14. Mount Gibraltar on right, Oxleys Hill on left from Moss Vale, 1935-1940 ...
    15. Guminumballen [sic] Gingenbullen from south - east (Sutton Forest) side ...
    16. Prospect in 1920's
    17. 1920-1925, Toongabbie ...
    18. Toongabbie
    19. Ermington - Rose Cottage or Farm now in Honour Street, 1921
    20. Narooma, circa 1916 ...
    21. Cathedral Rocks near Kiama, circa 1918
    22. Narooma, circa 1916
    23. Narooma. Hotel above funnel. Narooma South Coast New South Wales. S.S. Coomenderry ... about 1916
    24. Narooma, circa 1916
    25. Montague Island Narooma
    26. Mona Vale, 1920
    27. Narrabeen Lagoon, circa 1920
    28. Track across from main road to Pittwater before 1920 Newport
    29. Collaroy, 1930
    30. Calvert Parade, Newport before 1920 ...
    31. 1930 Mr Yewen's "Bungan" Bungan Head Newport ...
    32. Main road near"Myra" Walworth Av. 1920's
    33. Newport corner main Road & side road to the Bay about 1920
    34. Newport from 'Mira '' [sic] Myra Walworth Avenue, Newport 1936'
    35. Barrenjoey
    36. Collaroy, south side Long Reef, 1930
    37. Long Reef golf links, 1930
    38. Long Reef golf links, 1930
    39. Long Reef, 1930
    40. Coal strike
    41. Manganui near Rose Bay, circa 1913 or later
    42. [Unidentified sailing vessel]
    43. July 4th [unidentified sailing vessel]
    44. Balmain Johnson [sic] Bay
    45. After War 1. American sailing ships traded timber. They usually anchored off Balmain
    46. Milson's Point - Ferries, probably about 1913
    47. Milson's Point, 1918
    48. North Ryde, circa 1930
    49. North Ryde, 1930 (Quarry or Bridge Street)
    50. Peach orchard North Ryde before 1920 ...
    51. Ryde, Eastwood - n.b. railway overbridge now Deniston. Below Blaxland's Road
    52. Arrawalla. Encounter. Wodonga. Electra. Off Balls Road
    53. Hulks Balmain
    54. H.M.S. Encounter. Electra (off Balls Head) late 1920's?
    55. City of Grafton. Verosene [?] Bay
    56. Rose Bay Convent, Rose Bay
    57. Bottle & Glass, circa 1910
    58. South Head, 1920
    59. Bellevue Hill from heights above Rose Bay, 1920's
    60. Rose Bay convent about 1919-1922 or earlier Wigram Allen house in fore
    61. White Bay
    62. 1921 Darling Harbour. Wheat silos. White Bay. Power Station
    63. North Sydney (Gas Works?)
    64. Beyond Bass Hill 1925 about. Now "developed"
    65. Bass Hill
    66. Off Liverpool Road. Fairfield Creek area, 1920
    67. Swamp near Fairfield Creek, circa 1925
    68. Bankstown. Prospect hill in distance, 1921
    69. Liverpool, 1915-1925 about
    70. [Unidentified landscape]
    71. Liverpool Raod. North of Bankstown about 1915?
    72. Rhodes - - back of old cottage lived in by 2 Miss Walker's about 1915
    73. Ryde Bridge (Railway), circa 1920
    74. Duck Creek, 03/09/1921
    75. Mortlake, 1920
    76. Wharf Road, Concord, circa 1921
    77. Burnside & Braeside Kissing Point Parramatta River ...
    78. Kenmore Sutton Forest. Slab. Belonged to Newbury. May have been cottage Reverend Wn. Vincent was lent & about which he complained because it was so small
    79. Coles'
    80. Sutton Forest. Old."Black Bull"
    81. Porters Farm - Kangaloon
    82. Glenquarry
    83. Robertson, 1933-1944. Bell's Hill from what is now Illawarra Highway
    84. Sutton Forest
    85. Below All Saints Sutton Forest. Corner of Ditton's Lane, once a blacksmith's
    86. Ditton's Lane Sutton Forest
    87. Cameroo
    88. From Nether by looking over Dr. Hetherington's D[- -- (---?)] 1930's
    89. Cameroo
    90. Hetherington's Caber Street, North Vale
    91. Exeter. Jensen's Garden. Commercial flower growers
    92. Burrawang, 1933-1944
    93. Robertson? Bells Hill. Dungog
    94. Oldbury. The Ford
    95. Burrawang - Robertson circa 1940. Wingecarribee Swamp which will be a dam lake
    96. Cronulla
    97. Berrima January 1922. early a.m.
    98. Gate old Walker Cottage. Rhodes - Parramatta River, circa 1910
    99. Diamond Lake, New Zealand
    100. Queenstown. Wakatipu Lake Boat from
    101. New Zealand. Mount Earnshaw
    102. Earnshaw
    103. Diamond Lake
    104. Wakatipu Queenstown
    105. Earnshaw Dart?
    106. The Remarkables - Queenstown 1913. The Mountaineer - Baldwyn Spencer
    107. [View of Mountains and Lake]
    108. [House amongst trees]
    109. New Norfolk, 1914
    110. Glaston?
    111. Bodalla, March 1924
    112. [House amongst trees]
    113. [House amongst trees]
    114. Toongabbie, circa 1920
    115. [House amongst trees]
    116. North Ryde in 1920's
    117. [House amongst trees]
    118. [House and silo, trees in background]
    119. [Group of houses; trees left and right of pictures]
    120. Dungog, circa 1924
    121. [House and trees surrounded by a fence]
    122. Toongabbie, 1920's
    123. North Ryde?
    124. Liverpool Road before 1924, between Bass Hill & Fairfield Creek
    126. Swamp - Fairfield Creek at back. East side Liverpool Road just south of Landsdowne Bridge, circa 1925
    127. Fairfield Creek Deepwater (George Hall area) 1920-1930. Fairfield Creek
    128. Hay stooks Exeter, 1931
    129. Exeter 1931 Old Bundernoon Road . Before 1980 there were subdivisions nearby
    130. Moss Vale in 1930's from stock route now Broughton Street. The foreground paddocks now (1980's) Merretts subdivision streets & cottages
    131. Stock Route looking towards Mount
    132. "LYNTON" showing back of "Lynton" Argyle Street Moss Vale
    133. Near Blake's Hill (bare hill south of Moss Vale water tank on top)
    134. From Blake's Hill over looking"Cameroo", 1935-1940
    135. Ginnin ain Bullen [Gingen Bullen] ... from Stock Route J.I.C. Cosh (1935 circa)
    136. Glass Rocks south of Narooma, circa 1918
    137. Wollongong, circa 1920
    138. Wollongong - Port Kembla road, circa 1920
    139. Narrabeen Lagoon
    140. Narrabeen Lagoon, circa 1930
    141. New Norfolk, 1915
    142. New Norfolk, 1915
    143. Hobart
    144. Long Reef Collaroy, 1931-1933
    145. South Head, Newport
    146. AVALON before 1920
    147. Long Reef, 1931-1933. Fishing boats
    148. Long Reef from south, 1931-1933
    149. Silos Darling Harbour. White Bay Power Station in distance
    150. From South Head Heights
    151. [Harbour with ship and buildings]
    152. Mortlake, 1925
    153. [Ship, possibly tug with barges along side it]
    154. [Ship along side each other]
    155. [Ship docked on side of bank]
    156. [Ship in harbour]
    157. [Sailing ships and buildings in background]
    158. [Ship in harbour]
    159. [Ship with red flag in harbour]
    160. Danish training ship lost without trace in Southern Ocean
    161. [Sailing ship in harbour. To the left is a chimney and building
    162. H.M.S. Renown, 1920
    163. Destroyer, 1914-1918
    164. [Two ships on harbour with blue flags] about or 1920
    165. [Gift?] destroyer. 30/04/1920
    166. [Battle ship in harbour]
    167. ANGLIAN hulks near Balls Head, December 1926
    168. American tanker ship after War 1. Is this Pyrmont?
    169. Kerosene Bay (circa 1920?)
    170. [Ship possibly war ship]
    171. Renown, 17/06/1920
    172. H.M.S. Hood
    173. Renown?
    174. Kirribilli
    175. [Ship with four funnells; in harbour]
    176. H.M.S. Sydney
    176. [Ship] [verso]
    177. Back of Courthouse - Taylor's Inn (between 1933-1936) J.I.C. Cosh. Berrima
    178. Eden, circa 1918
    179. [Unidentified beach]. Unsigned, undated, untitled
    180. Avalon, 1920
    181. Collaroy - golf course & club house, 1930
    182. Mona Vale. [Pasted to board on which is watercolour sketch]
    183. [Unidentified coastline]
    184. [Seascape]
    185. Collaroy
    186. Newport
    187. Kiama [with colour notes]
    188. North Ryde?
    189. [Parramatta, Ryde district, possibly]
    190. [Parramatta, Ryde district, possibly] September 1921
    191. North Ryde
    192. Newport
    193. Long Reef south
    194. Newport north
    195. Collaroy, 1933
    196. [House in rural setting] [Parramatta, Ryde district possibly]
    197. North Ryde [House]
    198. Seven Hills? [House]
    199. Liverpool swamp
    200. Near Fairfield Creek south, circa 1925
    201. Near Georges Hall Deepwater - Prospect Creek Liverpool Road, 1920's
    202. Fairfield Creek - swamp, circa 1925
    203. Liverpool swamp
    204. Deepwater paddocks - near Fairfield
    205. Prospect Hill, 1920-1928
    206. [Rural view]
    207. Windsor?
    208. Bass Hill beyond Bankstown on Liverpool Road
    209. Off Liverpool Road - Bass Hill, 1920
    210. Parramatta district Old Windsor Road, Toongabbie - near ford - perhaps Pye's Crossing
    211. Barrenjoey
    212. Newport - Bilgola Head, 1920's
    213. Mr Yewen - The publisher or newspaper man Bungan Head. Newport, 1930
    214. Long Reef, 1930
    215. Long Reef from south, 1931-?
    216. Long Reef, 1930 now Golf Links
    217. Collaroy, 1933
    218. Collaroy, 1933
    219. Long Reef
    220. Collaroy - Long Reef
    221. Loading at Narooma, 1916.
    222. Narooma before 1920
    223. Montague Island, 1916
    224. Narooma - Flagstaff Head, 1916
    225. Nelligan [sic] February 1919. Bob Gill
    226. Tuross Lake
    227. Narooma
    228. Lynwood Exeter, 1931. Slab shed
    229. Exeter, 1931
    230. Exeter, circa 1938 rail right middle distance - This hill is still partly wooded, 1987
    231. Exeter
    232. Vine Lodge factory
    233. Exeter
    234. From Balch's lookout - Robertson
    234. Christmas [card] 1939 ... To you all at"Netherby"
    235. Rose Bay
    236. [Sydney Harbour?]
    237. Burnside or Braeside ...
    238. Kissing Point Burnside or Breside ... 1919
    239. Cosh, J. & C. Burnside - end First World War
    240. [Sydney Harbour, possibly]
    241. [Sydney Harbour, possibly]
    242. Rose Bay?
    243. [Sydney Harbour, possibly]
    243. Newport
    244. Oldbury built by James Atkinson, January 1921
    245. Oldbury, January 1921
    246. Newport
    247. Wharf Road, Concord about 1912
    248. Back of Turramurra Lovers Leap?, circa 1913
    249. Lennox Bridge Parramatta, circa 1920-1925
    250. Parramatta River, circa 1910
    251. Newport before 1930

  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Finding Aids
    Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  • Description source

    Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project 2008-2009
  • General note

    Not signed or dated. Some pencil sketches appear to have been titled by the artist. Most dates and identifying notes on the works have been attributed by the artists daughter, Miss Janet Cosh.
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