Photographs from the papers of Walter Gordon Henderson, 1865, 1897, ca.1925-1939

PXA 1376

fonds

1865, 1897, ca.1925-1939

Graphic Materials, Photographs

909916

70 photographs - silver gelatin - 18.5 x 25.5 cm. or smaller

1-17. Photographs of Australian Aborigines; some retouched. Captions on verso, some wanting cultural sensitivity. Captions paraphrased below
1. [Myall area? Man cutting woman's hair "for making string". Signed "Terry photo". 1930s?]
2. [Group of four Aboriginal men, one holding a message on a stick; captioned "Mulga mailman". Signed "Terry photo". 1930s?]
3. [Portrait of male Aboriginal elder. Signed "Terry photo". 1930s?]
4. The end of a corroboree dance on top of the newly made grave of "Murty Frank", headman, who perished on a kangaroo hunt last summer. Watts. (G. M. Hulls [F. M. Halls?] A.I.M. Innamincka SA). Wanted Wedy 25/9/35
5. [Portrait of Aboriginal man, Clarence River, NSW, with coil of water vine ("Vitis") across his shoulder used for climbing large trees; caption on verso describes climbing technique. Caption initialled (S.M.P.[?]) and dated "paid 14/1/35" [taken 1897]]
6. [Retouched copy of no.5, captioned on verso: "Nymboi Jack ... Clarence River Aboriginal, New South Wales ... (Taken in 1897). He has a vine ready for tree climbing. Paid 13/10/36"]
7. [Two Aboriginal men on a beach, one holding a spear, one sitting on a dugong. "Wanted Wedy 25/9/35"]
8. [Aboriginal woman seated on ground with 3 traditional containers. Names "Delarmare" and "La Delamare" on photo verso. 1930s?]
9. [Aboriginal woman fixing woven material attached to a stick. 1930s?]
10. [Group of 11 Aboriginal men and boys standing in shallow river holding a net and spears]
11. [Mother and baby daughter seated on sand; mother watching daughter beating food with a wooden club. 1930s? Handwritten caption in ink on notepaper affixed to photograph verso:] "... A little girl preparing mangrove "fruit" for supper. Copyright Donald Thomson"
12. [Two Aboriginal women working beside a hollow log. 1930s?]
13. [Young Aboriginal woman chest-deep in a lily pond, holding a tuber? 1930s?]
14. [Man climbing a tall tree. 1930s?] Malanda, Atherton T.land [Tableland]. Rope made of native vine & [...?]. H. H. Fishwick
15. Native of Arnhem Land building a paperbark raft about 1ft thick. F. M. Halls c/o Knudsen Studios Gladstone Qld [1930s?]
16. Paper bark raft. Crocodile hunter West Alligator River N. Terr. [Northern Territory]. F. M. Halls [1930s?]
17. [Two Aboriginal men blowing a wooden pipe. Photoprint with photomechanical print reproduction as a vignette. Instructions on photograph verso for "Block wanted ... 6/7/36"; notes include name "Don Thomson"
18-22. Photographs relating to William Farrer cottage and memorial "to be unveiled by the Governor General shortly" at Lambrigg, near Tharwa; signed "A. Ford 198 Longueville Rd Lane Cove"; two dated "Wanted Wedy 14/9/38"
23-25. Sheep and exhibition ram, Mingadal, NSW, 1933; "Sydney sale specially selected flocks"
26-33. Shearing, Isis Downs woolshed, "Erindale", Warialda, "Spring Valley", Muningo via Young. Accompanied by typescript letter to the Editor from M. R. White, Wonnaminta Station via Broken Hill, re Isis Downs Station, 28 September 1931; and typescript caption titled "Australian's largest shearing shed", re Isis Downs, by A. N. Marshall, Blackall, writing as "Unknown"
34-40. Sheep and shearing photographs, including portraits of imported prizewinning rams. Photographs received 1925 from Mr Dobbie, "Braeside", Kirribilli, and W. Forbes Clark, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
39. Edward King shearing one of the Rokeby House sheep, 1927
40. Australia's most historic ram. Peppin's famous ram "Emperor" with one of the Peppin boys (probably Fred) photographed soon after being shorn at Wanganella in 1865. Photo given to W. G. H. by Mr A. T. J. Albert Austin[?] who, with Mr T. Miller[?], bought the Wanganella double stud from Peppin & Sons in 1878 [envelope marked "Emperor, father of the Australian Merino / W. G. Henderson", discarded]
41-54. [Wool buyers, studio portraits, identified in typescript or pencil on verso; most dated "Wanted ..." or "Pub ...", various dates in 1932; 41-53 ink-stamped "Please acknowledge Falk". In envelope marked "Wool buyers / Photos used 1932", discarded]
41. S. Hirodo, Kanematsu F. Ltd. [In pencil:] Managing director
42. R. H. Fotheringhame, 9 Pitt Street (woolbuyer). [In pencil:] local repacker
43. H. Paton. T. S. Beaumont & Son, Scottish House, Bridge St (woolbuyer). (In pencil, pointing to firm's name:) USA
44. V. Dekyvere. Teranora Buildings, Reiby Lane, (woolbuyer). [In pencil:] France
45. P. Blairon (woolbuyer?) France
46. J. Leman (woolbuyer) France
47. P. Scamps, c/- H. Caulliez, 35 Pitt St (woolbuyer)
48. A. L. Desurmont, Etab. Leon Segard, 35 Pitt Street (woolbuyer). [In pencil:] France
49. O. Hilbert, Teranora Buildings, Reiby Lane (woolbuyer). [In pencil:] Germany
50. A. Boxho, 24 Jamieson St (woolbuyer). [In pencil:] France & Belgium
51. F. W. Kirschner, 34 Jamieson St (woolbuyer). [In pencil:] Germany
52. H. Webber, Japan Cotton Tdg. Co. Ltd. (woolbuyer). [In pencil:] buyer for Japan
53. L. H. Bell, 23 Phillip Street, Sydney (woolbuyer). [In pencil:] Oversea [sic] buyer
54. George Krech of Pohl & Krech. Buyer for Germany in Sydney (Fuhrmann & Co Amsterdam). [Blind-stamped:] The Swiss Studios, Sydney
55-67. Dingoes and wild dogs; photographs by S. Hood, Ella McFadyen, Boberg, S. Altson Pearl; various dates 1936-1939. In folder marked "Dingoes, wild dogs", discarded
68-69. Foxes; 1933, 1934
70. Wild goose. Copyright Francis Birtles, Coogee, undated

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
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This pictorial material is part of Walter G. Henderson papers at MLMSS 2447

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