Photographs mostly of Fernshaw, Victoria, along with views of Sydney, ca. 1872-192- / belonging to the Jefferson family

PXE 1170

fonds

ca. 1872-192-

Graphic Materials, Photographs

909876

1 album (27 photographic prints) - 37 x 30 cm.
9 photographic prints - 22.5 x 28.5 cm. (inside mount) or smaller (36.5 x 41.5 cm. mounted)

John Mathews Jefferson, 1859-1932, (grandfather of donor) set up a store at Fernshaw, Victoria, which was later expanded into a hotel and stood beside Watts River.
He had an almost life-long association with the timber trade. He was bom at Kyneton, in Victoria, and spent his early life in the timber trade in Tasmania, and later with the Kauri Timber Company In New Zealand. In 1899 he entered business on his own account in Sydney as a timber shipping agent. He was at one time a director of George Hudson, Ltd., timber merchants, and was one of the foundation directors of Cumberland Paper Mills. He died at Bellevue Hill, NSW

Reference:
Sydney Morning Herald, 29 January 1932 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/16837251 (accessed 27 June 2012)

BOX 1
Album containing 27 photographic prints taken by Nicholas John Caire, mostly in Fernshaw, Victoria, 1872-ca. 1876, all are titled or annotated by John Mathews Jefferson. Includes: Mutterson Watts Bridge Hotel, 1872; Matthew Jefferson felling a tree, ca. 1876; other bush scenes including picture featuring Matthew Jefferson with sons William Tysoll and John Mathews, ca. 1876 and scenes at Black Spur and Watts River

BOX 2
2 mounted photographs taken by Nicholas John Caire, one being a view of Fernshaw, Victoria, 1876, the other a scene at Black Spur, Victoria

6 views taken around the Sydney area, ca. 1910. All are described on their reverse side by Ms. I. Jefferson. Includes views of Bondi, Rose Bay, Bellevue Hill (including 'Kyneton')

1 portrait of John Mathews Jefferson, said to be taken for article in Who's Who in Australia in the 1920s

Access via appointment - Box 1

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Argus of 23 June 1934, titled, 'Beautiful Fernshaw, it's Genesis and Extinction', by E.E.H., mentions 'Archie', significant to the Jeffersons

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