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Title
Sydney Marine Underwriters' & Salvage Association photographs,1888- / Sydney Marine Underwriters' & Salvage Association
Creator
Sydney Marine Underwriters' & Salvage Association
Call number
PXD 1345
Level of description
fonds
Date

1888-
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs, Prints
Reference code
909470
Physical Description
1 album (45 photographic prints) - gelatin silver, albumen
38 photographs - chiefly gelatin silver, some albumen - 24 x 29 cm or less
43 photomechanical prints - photocopies, black & white, cloth backed - 73.5 x 75 cm or less
1 print - colour - 40 x 52 cm
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

The Sydney Underwriters' Association, formed in 1876, was incorporated in 1885. In 1898, following the acquisition of salvage plant facilities and equipment, the Association became the Sydney Marine Underwriters' & Salvage Association Limited. In 1938 its staff amalgamated with that of the Fire and accident Underwriters' Association. The Association ceased operation in 1975 when the Insurance Council of Australia became responsible for State activities.

Reference:
Library correspondence file
Scope and Content
Box 1
Album and loose photographs relating to salvage work, 1908-1924
Includes photographs of ships ‘SS Kallatina’, ‘SS Friendship’, ‘SS Seagull’, ‘SS Hastings’, ‘SS Bucra’, ‘SS Waratah’, ‘SS Douglas Mawson’, ‘SS Coolebar’, ‘SS Ramornie’, ‘SS Makambo’, ‘SS Rona’ and ketches ‘Curlew’, ‘Florant’ and ‘Zingarra’. Also includes loose photographs of the ‘SS Cooma’, ‘SS Seagull’ and ‘TSS Belbowrie’ and ‘TSS Maianbar’, an unidentified boat shed, and the sailing boat ‘Astoria’.

Box 2
Mounted photographs of board members and ships
1. Group portrait of managers and secretaries of the Sydney Insurance Co., Cabarita, 1886
2. Three photographs of the wreck of the ‘Bellinger’ on Stradbroke Island, 1892
3. Three photographs of the wreck of the ‘Tweed’ cargo ship, Byron Bay, 1893
4. Group portrait of Insurance Managers Cricket Match, Sydney Cricket Ground (ca. 1894-1896, based on dates for Alfred E. Maling’s photography studio in George Street, 1894-1896)
5. ‘Colonist’, steamer, Newcastle, N.S.W., 1894
6. Vessel ‘Sophia Ann’, Newcastle, ca. 1895-1901 (dates of Temple West’s photographic studio in Newcastle)
7. Group portrait of the Accident Underwriters of N.S.W., ca. 1900s
8. Unidentified group portrait, company cricket event (ca. 1900s)
9. Group portrait taken at Insurance Managers Picnic, National Park, N.S.W., May 1904
10.Firemen at Orange Fire Brigade Station, 1904
11. Formal dinner, unidentified group, ca. 1910s
12.-14. Group photograph of members of the [Fire Underwriters’?] Association of Queensland taken in the board room, Dec. 1918
15.-17. Group portrait taken at Insurance Managers Picnic, Manly Oval, February 1930

Box 3
Mounted photographs of group portraits
1. Group portrait of the Accident Underwriters of N.S.W., ca. 1910s
2. Insurance Managers Picnic, Clifton Gardens, 1920 (Mount fragile, pieces breaking off)

Cloth backed reproductions of photographs - Portraits
3. Group portrait of delegates at the Conference of Marine Underwriters picnic , 1885
4. Group portrait of members of the Fire Insurance Companies Brigade Association, Melbourne, 1890-1891
5. Divers Briggs and May at wreck of ‘SS Catterthun’, near Seal Rocks, August 1896
6. Group portrait of Sydney Underwriters Association picnic, 1898
7. Members of the Fire Underwriters Association of N.S.W., 1899-1900
8. Unidentified group portrait with key, ca. 1900 (possibly the Fire Underwriters’ Association of N.S.W., chairman H.F. Francis identified in key)
9. Unidentified group portrait, ca. 1900s
10. Principals of Insurance Companies in N.S.W., 1902
11. Members of the Accident Underwriters Association of Western Australia, 1902
12. Members of the Accident Underwriters’ Association of New South Wales, 1902-1903
13. Group portrait of members of the Insurance Managers’ Picnic at National Park, May 1904
14. Members of the Marine Underwriters’ Association of Western Australia, 1904
15. Members of the Conference of Accident Underwriters, held at Brisbane, 1906
16. Group portrait of delegates at the Conference of Chief Representatives of Fire Insurance Companies held in Melbourne, 1906
17. Group portrait of delegates at the Conference of Fire Underwriters, Melbourne, 1906 (with key on separate sheet)
18. Members of the Fire Underwriters’ Association of Victoria, 1906
19. Group portrait of members of the Guarantee Insurance Association of Western Australia, 1906
20. Members of the Sydney Marine Underwriters Salvage Association Ltd., 1908-1909
21. Members of the Accident Underwriters Association of New South Wales, Sydney, 1909-1910
22. Group portrait of delegates at the Conference of the Insurance Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, held in Bristol, 1910 (key to delegates on separate sheet)
23. Portrait of James Martin Macadam, Joint Manager, Atlas Assurance Coy. & Manchester Assur. Coy., Sydney, 1910
24. Group portrait of members of the Federal Council of Marine Underwriters of Australia and Tasmania, meeting held in Melbourne, 1918
25. Portraits of members of the Accident Underwriters’ Association of Victoria, 1918
26. Portraits of members of the Accident Underwriters’ Association of New South Wales, 1918-1919
27. Portraits of members of the Western Australian Underwriters, 1919
28. Group portrait of the Committee of the Accident Underwriters’ Association of N.S.W., 1920-1921
29. Group portrait of members of the Federal Council of Marine Underwriters of Australia and Tasmania, held in Perth, 1926
30. Portrait of W.S. Peebles, Chairman, Fire Underwriters Association of N.S.W., ca. 1926
31. Group portrait of the Committee of the Sydney Marine Underwriters and Salvage Association Ltd., 1926-1927
32. Portraits of members of the Fire, Marine & Accident Underwriters’ of Western Australia, W.A. State Centenary Year, 1929

Cloth backed reproductions of photographs - Montages
33. Delegates of the Marine Underwriters Conference, Sydney, 1885; Marine Conference Picnic at Black Spur, Melbourne, 1898; ‘SS Taviuni’, sunk Darling Harbour, Sydney, 1911
34. ‘SS Seagull’ and ‘ ‘SS Belbowrie’, stranded 1912; 6” ‘Wear’ motor pump & 6” Drysdale ‘Bon Accord’ steam pump; seven boxes of gold recovered from wreck of ‘SS Catterthun’ near Seal Rocks, 1896; delegates Marine Underwriters Conference at Sydney, 1885
35. Unidentified shipwrecks and campsites
36. Members of the Marine Underwriters Association of Victoria, 1905; damaged hull of ‘SS Dunmore’, beached at Ladys Beach, Watson’s Bay 1914; ‘SS Kallatina’, sunk Clarence river, 1908; group portrait of the Accident Underwriters of N.S.W., ca. 1900s
37. Barque ‘Earl of Dunmore’, on fire, Sydney Harbour, 1903; trial of ‘Kelly & Lewis’ 8” motor pump, Gore Bay, 1918
38. Members of the insurance profession and chemical extinguishers at the works of Wormald Bros. Ltd. Sydney, 1917
39. Group portrait from the Insurance Managers’ Picnic, Clifton Gardens, 1920; key to names in group portrait; members’ signatures

Cloth backed reproductions of photographs - Shipwrecks
40. ‘SS Rosedale’: stranded on Bellinger breakwater, 1911 (3 reproductions)
41. Adelaide S.N. Company’s hulk ‘Merion’, sunk in Port Jackson after collision with ‘SS Wollongbar’, Dec. 1914

Cloth backed reproductions of photographs - Documents
42. Certificate for incorporation of the National Board of Marine Underwriters with the Board of Underwriters of New York, 1923
43. Fire and Accident Underwriters, AIF, Roll of Honor, 1914-1918

Print
44. Armed clipper ship, ‘Kent’, which sailed from London to Australia from the mid 1850s to early 1860s. Original painting by John Allcot. Calendar designed, produced and printed by Marchant & Co. Pty. Ltd.

Forms part of MLMSS 2965 and MLMSS 2965 ADD-ON 916
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Photographs created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

The numbers used in this record have not been added to the items.

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Name
Fire and Accident Underwriters Association of New South Wales
Sydney Marine Underwriters' & Salvage Association
Subject
Insurance companies--Australia.
Photograph albums.
Portrait photography.
Adult Males
Topic
interiors
shipwrecks
insurance assessors
firefighters
salvage workers
salvage equipment
industrial picnics
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