M. H. Ellis pictorial material, 1860s, ca.1904-1952

PXD 1305
R 2079
SLIDES 257
ON 529

fonds

1860s, ca.1904-1952

Graphic Materials, Objects, Textual Records, Photographs, Clippings

909459

approx. 1007 loose and 11 mounted photographs - albumen, chiefly silver gelatin - 5 x 5 cm. (smallest), 25 x 30 cm. (largest)
6 albums (approx. 439 photographs and 45 postcards)
1 glass slide - colour - 12 x 16.5 cm.
1 folder of ephemera and textual material (postcards, bookmark, newscuttings, visiting cards, and printed material)
1 flag - silk? - approx. 39 x 47 cm.
approx. 213 negatives - mostly cellulose nitrate - various sizes

PXD 1305 (2 BOXES)

Approx. 242 captioned photographs, including: [wedding?] party at Edwards’ Hut on the summit of Barrington Tops, [1920s?]; views from trans-Australia car journey, 1924 with Francis Birtles; buffalo and bird shooting; Knowles, Ellis and Birtles in Sofia; Aboriginal people, Arnhem Land and Alice Springs; “Men of the Arrundta tribe”; Aboriginal men’s initiation ritual; portrait of David Unaipon; Alick Morrison, dingo shooter of Barrington Tops, with Mr Wearne; Australian Meat Council Delegation at Bristol, 1926 [identified on verso]; views from London-India car journey; views in Delhi, Aleppo, Taurus Mountains, Serbia and Turkey, and "Our home at Airange Derbend”; with French Commandant and Russian refugee station master at Radjou, Syria; farewell party at Alice Springs, with identifications on verso including Dr Basedow; Aboriginal water carrier with donkey; gold prospectors in the Pine Creek district, NT; drovers’ camp near Tambo; people and plantations at Baining, Papua New Guinea; portrait of John James Baily-Stoll[?]; carte de visite portrait of W. C. Wentworth; date palms at Coward Springs, South Australia; “Send off of Poynton [possibly Alexander Poynton, politician, d.1935? View of crowd on wharf:] Crowd on left sang Red Flag while passengers on boat sang God Save the King in opposition. Placard [“Liberate those men whose only crime is defending our birthright …”] is in reference to men imprisoned for nonpayment of taxes”; demonstration at Fanny Bay Gaol, including “Portion of crown & band at Fanny Bay Gaol gates, Darwin N.T. 5/6/21, singing “Red Flag”. [Harold] Nelson without hat as leader”; woman identified as “PCR”; Barcaldine Downs homestead; pasture work and first aerial top dressing in Australia at Mirani, Walcha, owned by A. S. Nivison; Arthur Manning, MP; Inland Mission sisters at Maranboy; Maranboy Inland Mission hospital; [family in rowboat:] “Mt Morgan, Xmas Day 1904”; “Council of Admin that led to deportation of Carey, Bevan & Evans [in ‘Darwin Rebellion’, 1919; seven identified men including Harold Nelson]; Aboriginal rock painting, Epstein, Northern Territory; “Darwin Joss house”; Stirling Station; named livestock; remains of Fort Dundas, Melville Island; “Going 500 miles to the Rankine Races [by horse & carriage] – Mr Hogan, the Boorooloola Hotel keeper”; men at Boorooloola; possum trapper’s c “Alfonso XIII says goodbye. He called on me at Browns last [week?] 7/2/27” [man bidding farewell at car; shows Australian flag (that at R 2079?) flying from car windscreen]; Vestey’s Meat Works; pearl shellers at Thursday Island; “The Horseshoe Pool. A picnic spot on the Dee River above Mount Morgan”; “Dee Rush [Dee River gold rush], Mt Morgan, [Nov 29] 1903, M. H. E. in foreground”; meeting of Electrical Association, 28/10/1931 by Sam Hood. Some photographs by Francis Birtles.

Approx. 728 uncaptioned photographs, including: Trans-Australia and London-India car journeys; Aboriginal people; views in Europe; 1st BGS [Brisbane Grammar School] rugby team, 1905; carved tree: “P W [12 J-?] 1862”; 5 x 5cm. snapshots from Japan.

25 photoprints of artworks relating to Sydney Cove, with typescript captions on verso

12 photographs relating to Johnston house and Johnston family in Annandale, with cabinet card portraits including David Johnston and group of six on front verandah with identifications on verso. Note on envelope by Field Librarian, 18 February 1976 states that the photo of David Johnston appears to be the one from which an oil painting was done for the Pioneers Club. The photo of David Johnston was used in an exhibition at Bankstown in March-April 1976.

6 ALBUMS

Souvenir album in black binding, titled in gilt letters on cover: “World cruise of the British Special Service Squadron 1923-1924”. Approx. 350 photoprints. N.B. Binding is disintegrating and shedding large amounts of thick black grime; album has been wrapped in paper
Postcard album (approx. 45 postcards – non-Australian views)
Album containing 1 photoprint: gravestone of John L. Stapleton & John Franks, d. 23 February 1874 at Barrow Creek
Album of 50 silver gelatin photoprints relating to British Commonwealth Occupation Force?, Japan
Snapshot album (38 5x6cm. photoprints) relating to London-India car journey.

MOUNTED PHOTOGRAPHS

Party of 3 in expedition automobile, dated in pencil “1917”, another undated; amateur theatrical performance of Rossegger’s Freimund (Scene 2); photographic portrait (“C. M. Ellis” on verso, illegible signature on image); Australasian Friesian Society Council & Judges, Sydney Royal [Easter Show?] 1921 [all identified on verso, including M. H. Ellis]; Farewell cricket match to Captain Wallington, C.M.G.; three photographic montages on cardboard, showing scenes from Australian expedition; photograph of H.M.S. Hood in harbor, signed in ink “John K. Im Thurn”; studio portrait of W. C. Wentworth

EPHEMERA

Approx. 12 loose postcards, newscuttings, bookmark; visiting cards; reprint of "The History of the Royal Exchane of Sydney", compiled by C. E. S. Hughes, Royal Exchange Sydney, June 1964

R 2079

1 flag: silk?, approx. 39 x 47 cm. Union Jack and red and white 4-star Southern Cross on blue background. Accompanied by envelope labelled “Australian [incorrect New Zealand] flag. Armistice night 1918, Cross Australia 1924, Airrange Derbend Anzac Day 1927, London-India 1927”.

SLIDES 257

1 Ektachrome colour glass slide, 12 x 16.5 cm.: Photograph of binding of presentation volume of Ellis’s ‘Lachlan Macquarie’, undated

ON 529

Approx. 213 negatives (mostly nitrate): various sizes. Chiefly relating to Northern Territory in trans-Australia car journey, London-Bombay overland trip and visit of H.M.S. Hood. (ON 529/nos.1-24 have some corresponding prints, filed at PXD 1305 in marked envelopes)

Loose photographs have been grouped into captioned and uncaptioned photographs.

This material is held in cold storage and requires 3 working days notice to retrieve. Please submit your request through Ask a Librarian - Applies to: ON 529

Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Out of copyright

This pictorial material is part of M. H. Ellis papers at MLMSS 1712 and ADD-ONs 197, 300.

Portraits of W. C. Wentworth ca.1860s?; other material ca.1904-1952.

Custom housing requested for R 2079, 17/4/2013 (located at OMB Mounting drawer 3)

UNESCO Six - State Library of New South Wales (6 October, 2018 - 5 May, 2019). Applies to: PXD 1305/Box 1 - David Unaipon, 1920s by Malcolm Henry Ellis