Lantern slides of Darwin and nearby area, 1869-1914 / Paul Foelsche

SLIDES 30

fonds

1856-1914

Graphic Materials, Photographs

839863

1 box (72 slides) - lantern - 3 x 3 in. each

Paul Foelsche, Darwin's first police chief, took about 700 wet plate photographs of Darwin between 1869 and his death in 1914. Reference: Dunstan, R., "Camera-eye on early Darwin", Australian Women's Weekly, 8 October 1969

This collection of 72 slides belonged to the donor's husband. They formerly belonged to Samuel James Mitchell, Acting Administrator, Northern Territory, 1911-1912. He gave them to Rev. R. Fulford in Adelaide and he subsequently gave them to Mrs Warren's husband. -- information from donor on ML file, February 1970

Included in the collection are views of Port Essington, Katherine, Adelaide and Roper rivers, and slides of Australian Aborigines in and around Darwin

Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 254 -

Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009

Contents list by P. Foelsche, the donor, and Mitchell Library staff, together with notes supplied by the donor and a cutting from the Australian Women's Weekly referring to the Foelsche photographs are filed at PXn 254.

"With this I am posting the portion of "Women's Weekly" on which is printed the particulars of the Foelsche photographs from which the lantern slides of Darwin were made." -- letter from donor on ML file, 7 March 1972