Charles Bateson photographs, postcards and prints of ships, other pictorial material and realia, ca. 1834-1974

PXA 1587/Boxes 1-11
PXB 631/Boxes 1-6
PXD 1241
PXE 1342/Boxes 1-3
R 2010

fonds

ca. 1834-1974

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records, Posters, Clippings, Drawings, Ephemera, Objects

908971

Approx. 3100 photographs - 25 x 34.5 cm and smaller
Approx. 875 ephemera items (postcards) - various sizes
4 albums (approx. 280 ephemera items (postcards) - 13 x 19.5 cm : ; 13 x 19.5 cm
24 prints (colour) - 27.3 x 35.5 cm and smaller
3 posters (handcoloured prints) - 43.5 x 31.5 cm
1 cartoon (pencil and ink) - 44 x 37 cm
1 drawing (ink) - 33 x 26.5 cm
Disc carved with an indigenous design (shell) - 4.5 x 3.5 cm

Photographs and postcards:
PXA 1587/Boxes1-3, PXB 631/Boxes 1-4, PXE 1342/Box 1
Warships

PXA 1587/Box 4
Submarines

PXA 1587/Boxes 5-6
Steamers
PXE 1342/Box 2
Steamers (alphabetical sequence by name of ship)

PXA 1587/Boxes 7-9
Sailing Ships (alphabetical sequence by name of ship)
PXA 1597/Box 10
Sailing Ships (alphabetical sequence by name of ship)

PXE 631/Box3
Postcard albums - warships and steamers

PXA 1587/Box 11, PXB 631/5
Shipwrecks and other disasters

PXB 631/Box 6
Ports and harbours

PXD 1241
Prints - warships, steamers and sailing ships
Drawing: Sections of Raine Island Beacon on the Great Barrier Reef, pen & ink.
Posters for Vaulcluse Music Club: "Shades of Old Vaucluse", 6 December 1930 / hand coloured woodcuts by Ailsa Lee-Brown.
Cartoon by George Finey, pencil & ink.

R 2010
Shell disc carved with an indigenous design. Titled on reverse "Relic of Barque Charles Eaton found on Buoydang Island". Includes a newspaper cutting dated 1836 mounted on card.


In 1834 the barque Charles Eaton was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef. The majority of the survivors were massacred by Torres Strait Islanders on Boydan Island.

Forms part of the Charles Bateson papers, ca. 1916-1974, at MLMSS 2865

Copyright restrictions may apply: photographs created before 1955 are out of copyright ; photographs created after 1955 are in copyright.

Pic.Acc. Update Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.4067 as part of the eRecords Project, 2012-2013

Majority of photographs, postcards and prints are identified and many have extended captions.