Series 2: Photographs, ephemera, watercolours, banner and films relating to Donald Munro Shand, ca. 1898-1973

SV/265
R 2051
PXE 1432
VT 2087-VT 2093

series

ca. 1898-1973

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs, Objects, Ephemera, Drawings, Clippings, Moving Images

908931

2 drawings - watercolour - 28.5 x 39 cm and 30.6 x 21.4 cm
Approx. 450 photographs - mostly black and white, some sepia toned or colour - 34 x 24 cm or smaller
10 slides - colour - 35 mm
1 negative - black and white - 10 x 12.5 cm
Clippings - newspaper
Ephemera - 1 advertising leaflet, 2 calendars and 15 postcards
8 contact sheets (90 frames)
1 banner - fabric - approx. 29 x 16 cm
7 film reels

SV/265
Watercolour painting of a house in rural setting.

SLIDES 255
Slides of family, friends and business associates.

R 2051
Small banner with coat of arms for the Gold Coast, Queensland. With motto: 'Prope flumen et oceanum'.

PXE 1432/Box 1
Slides and photographs of East-West Airlines, Woodville farm and business people. Includes many of Don Shand standing on tarmacs alongside East West Airlines aeroplanes, one in front of a Boeing 737 with Lew Wallick, chief test pilot for Boeing (signed by Wallick), and some of Shand with pilots and air hostesses. Several photographs produced by Country Life of East West Airlines aeroplanes. Also photographs of Shand attending business functions and working on the farm. Photographs of Woodville include the early farming days, a plane crop dusting, mechanical harvesting of hybrid seed maize and Land Army girls working in the fields. Also some photographs of Shand with Dale Forrest, Miss San Francisco, in Armidale.

PXE 1432/Box 2
Photographs of Don Shand, family and friends at home, at functions and overseas. Includes the homestead at 'Woodville', Shand's wedding to Beryl Downe in 1952, overseas trips, his horse 'Young Cavalier' at the race track, portraits of his mother Mrs J.B. Shand, and his dog 'Bernie'. Ephemera items include a brochure for Apple Tree Cottage, Padnoller, Nether Stowey, England, and two small calendars (a 1937 calendar attached to a board with a photograph featuring a white kangaroo captured on Woodville by Shand and also a 1938 calender with the 'Canterbury Cathedral, Monastery Ruins' on cover). Postcards from various places, mostly England. Also a Japanese watercolour painting signed 'Tananchin' (or 'Taranchin').

PXE 1432/Box 3
Photographs of the Wigan and Hyde families, relatives of Don Shand's two wives (1898-ca. 1930). Two photographs identified as: Captain Apotheus (?) Cotville Hyde and Isabel A. Hyde. Most photographs unidentified. Note with photographs: 'These photographs possibly only Wigan relatives (Shand's first wife was Evelyn Wigan, widow of late Dr. Wigan)'.

ON 524
Negative of Woodville Garden (copy print at PXE 1432/Box 2)

Film reels:

Personal, silage, corn, retreat (VT 2087)
Overseas travel, Honolulu, London, Paris (VT 2088)
The great story of corn (VT 2089)
Trip around the world (2090-VT 2091)
Woodville, East West Airlines, rain making, corn, New Guinea, Far East Asia (VT 2092)
The Chairman, ABC Big Country (VT 2093)

Forms part of MLMSS 4166

Access via appointment - Applies to SLIDES 255, R 2051 and ON 524

Copyright restrictions may apply: Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright for the life of creator plus 70 years.
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