Myles Dunphy collection of photographs, pictorial material, architectural drawings and realia, 1875-1987

PXA 1718
PXA 1740
PXD 1352
PXE 1499
PXX 104
ARCH 24
ON 525
ON 526
SLIDES 259
R 2081
R 2082
LR 97

fonds

1875-1987

Graphic Materials, Cartographic Materials, Architectural and Technical Drawings, Objects, Textual Records, Photographs, Prints

909980

Approx. 1300 photographs - 81 x 29.5 cm and smaller
18 maps - 78.5 x 45 cm and smaller
11 negatives - glass - 16.4 x 12 cm and smaller
18 negatives - film - 21.5 x 16.3 cm and smaller
6 slides
23 sketch books - pencil, ink, water colour - 25.5 x 37 cm and smaller
Approx. 230 loose drawings - pencil ink, water colour - 38 x 261 cm and smaller
Approx. 300 architectural drawings - 69.5 102.5 cm and smaller
3 printing blocks - 18.3 x 10.3 cm
1 pencil box - tin - 5.3 x 18.2 cm
13 paintings - oil - 26 x 36.3 cm and smaller
11 prints - etching, aquatint - 52 x 34 cm and smaller

Myles Joseph Dunphy was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1891 and spent his childhood in Sydney and Kiama, NSW where he explored the South Coast countryside and developed his lifelong interest in bushwalking and nature conservation. He was a founding member of the Mountain Trails Club in 1914, the Sydney Bush Walkers in 1931, and was secretary of the National Parks and Primitive Areas Council from its inception in 1923 until 1965. Its major early campaigns were for the preservation of a Greater Blue Mountains National Park and the addition of Garawarra and Era to the Royal National Park. Dunphy produced maps of the areas in which he walked and for many years served as a counsellor on the Geographic Names Board of NSW. He studied architecture at Sydney Technical College, 1907-1912 and qualified as an architect in 1923 but never practiced professionally. He taught in the schools of architecture at Sydney Technical College and the University of NSW until he retired in 1958. He died in Sydney on 30 January 1985.





Reference:
Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 17, 2007.

1. PHOTOGRAPHS
PXA 1718/Box 1
"Historic Photographs", probably by Bischoff, photographer in the Du Faur expedition to the Grose Valley in 1875. Include Katoomba Falls, Grose Valley, Knapsack Gully Viaduct, Fitzroy Falls, Three Sisters, Vale Lookout overlooking Grose River. Also includes views of Sydney.
Kanangra Falls, 1895.
Red Hands Cave, Central Burragorang.
Kanangra Walls, 1982.
Blue Mountains National Park. First Meeting of Trustees, 1959.
"The Max Gentle (Grey) Collection of Photographs", 1929-1960.
"Packet 104". Includes "Assorted Blue Mountains Prints"; Bushrangers Track, Kedumba Valley; Brumby Mountain.
Ships and boats on Sydney Harbour, including Ormuz, Avernus (torpedo boat) and Era.

PXA 1718/Box 2
"Tour Prints", 1919-1935 (a contents list is enclosed). Include tours to Kowmung, Mt Flora, Colo River, Burragorang; Coxs River; Buxton; and Cycling Tour in Queensland
"Seventeen". An album of portraits of "Olga and Carol" at Clontarf, 1925.

PXA 1718/Box 3
"Packet 103", 1939-1954 (a contents list is enclosed). Includes Miara photographs; Snowy Mountains; Monaro, Cowan Creek, Iandra homestead, Mountain Trails Club social, New York, Middle East, 'Milo leaves for England'.
Packet, 1918-1927. Includes Snowy-Indi, 1930-31; Hawkesbury Canoe Cruise; Barrington Tops, 1924; Jenolan, Boyd, Kanangra, Yerr, Nattai, 1918, Little Garrie & Era, 1923; postcards.
Photographs taken in Italy & France.

PXA 1718/Box 4
Album: North Coast Lakes Canoe Cruise, April-June 1920 (includes some loose photographs).
Album: Australian Snowy Highlands.

PXA 1718/Box 5
Camping trips & walking tours: Include Dunphy-Dixon Walking Tour to Bulga & Camboyne; Sydney Technical College Architectural Club Camp at Berowra Creek, 1926; Walking Tours 1909-1920, photographs by Albert Zeck (a friend who accompanied Dunphy on several walks); Bindook and Talbon trip, January 1935.

PXE 1499/ Box 1
Dunphy family photographs: Dunphy family at Kiama, ca. 1906; Miles Dunphy and family; Myles and Margaret Dunphy, their children and friends.
"River Red Gums, Monindee" / by R. Meagher.
Old Colliery photographs: include Illawarra, Vale of Clywdd, Lithgow and Helensburg.

PXE 1499/Box 2
Topographical photographs: Narrow Neck; Kanangra Tops; Coxs River & Jenolan River; Colo River; Blue Labyrinth; Upper & Middle Kowmung; Blue Gum Forest, Nattai, Lacys Creek, Burragorang; Cedar Hills, Wild Dogs; Warrumbungles; Kowmung; Christy's Creek, Gangerang, Ti-Willa, Burragorang.

PXX 104/Folder 1 and PXD 1352/Box 1
Mounted topographical photographs with maps, drawings and story boards from an exhibition/s, ca. 1935, promoting the establishment of park reserves, particularly Kowmung, Gangerang, Kanangra, Bindook-Colong, all being parts of a proposed Blue Mountains National Park, as well as the Warrumbungles, Bouddi and the Australian Alps.

PXX 104/Folder 2
Mounted photographs by Raphael C. Doyle, 1972, including Laceys Creek, Blue Breaks,
Shoalhaven River Gorge, Burragorang and panoramas of the Warrumbungles and Turragorang

PXD 1352/Box 2
Panoramas: View south from Mt Mouin / by W.J.Roots; Maxwell's Hillock, Kanangra; Wollongong from Mt Keira, 1918; Bindook Chasm; 'Long views from Carlon Head and Dingo etc.
St Andrews Cathedral School, Pitt Street, Sydney.
St Lukes Church, Liverpool, NSW, 1934 / by Monte Luke.
Sydney Technical College
Old Colliery Photographs . Include Illawarra, Vale of CLwydd, Lithgow and Helensburg.

PXA 1718/Box 6
Architectural photographs. Exteriors and interiors of buildings with some plans, including Australia Cafe; Capitol Theatre, Melbourne; Castlecrag houses; Palais de Dance, St Kilda; Cobbity Church.


2. COPY PRINTS FROM NITRATE NEGATIVES (2250)
PXA 1740/Box 1
Walks & Camping Trips:
Heathcote, 1914, Roy Rudder & MJD.
Clear Hill, New Year 1915, with R. Doyle.
Nattai Valley, Easter 1914.
Narrow Neck, Clear Hill, Mount Mouin, New Years Day 1915.
Blackheath, Cox's River, Mt Victoria, Easter 1915.
Kanangra Overland, 1915.
Jenolan, Kanangra, Cox, Xmas 1915.
Narrabri, April 1916.
Picton, Colong, Wombeyan Trip, 1916.
Euroka (Megalong), 1916.
Garie, 1916.
Easter 1917 Wallacia.
Burragorang, Xmas 1916-1917.
Wattamolla, Oct. 1917. Mr Johnson.
Nowra, 1917.
Kowmung, Cox Trip, 1917-18.

PXA 1740/Box 2
Walks & Camping Trips:
Mixed Walk, Burning Palms, 1918.
Clear Hill, 1918.
Tarana, Kanangra, Kowmung, Burragorang, 1918.
Burning Palms, March 1919.
Lakes Canoe Cruise, 1920.
Walking Tour with Roy Davies, 1920
Cox River Xmas Trip, 1920-21.
Middle Harbour & Parramatta River, 1921.
Middle Harbour with K.R. & R.D., 1921

PXA 1740/Box 3
Walks & Camping Trips:
Victorian Alps Walk, 1921-1922, Parts 1 & 2.
Canoe Cruise, Lower Hawkesbury, Xmas 1922-23.
Little Garie, 1923.
Mrs Hay and Korrowall Peets Leura 1923.
Dunphy's mixed Burragorang party, 1923.
Canoe Set, Sheerin-Dunphy Party, June 1924.
Comboyne-Bulga Mixed Walk, Jan. 1925, Parts 1 & 2.
Walcha to Wauchope, Jan. 1925.

PXA 1740/Box 4
Walks & Camping Trips:
Kempsey to Armidale, Jan. 1925.
Honeymoon Cruise, 1926, Parts 1, 2 & 3.
Heathcote, Marg Win, Carol, MJD, 1926.
Barrington Tops, 1927.
Hill Top, 1928. Upper Little River.
Nulla - Ebor, 1928.
Kowmung Overland, Jan. 1928
Kowmung with Margaret, 1928.

PXA 1740/Box 5
Walks & Camping Trips:
Burning Palms, Jan. 1928
SBW Woronora River, 1928.
Patonga Walk, 1929.
Nattai, Easter, 1929.
Kowmung Sept. 1929. With Jim Cunninghame.
Gentles & MJD Thurat Trip, 1929.
Snowy River Alps, 1931.
Dungalla Thurat, Dec. 1931-Jan. 1932. Party of 8.
Pram Tour North Coast, Jan. 1932.
Colong - Bindook, Feb. 1933.
Boyd - K97 - Morong, Jan. 1933. Hallet, Wallace, Norm Hodges, MJD.
Christy's Creek, Jan. 1934.

PXA 1740/Box 6
Walks & Camping Trips:
Christy's Creek, 1934 - Norm Colton's set.
Bindook, Jan. 1935. Shortridge, Dunphy, Peet.
Roy Davies, Middle Harbour, undated.
Kowmung Mixed Trip, undated.
Bell to Richmond, undated.
National Park Waterfalls, Oxford Falls, undated.
Kowmung Overland, undated.
National Park, Bert Larkin & self, undated.
Canoe Parramatta River, undated.
Garie to Stanwell with the Symonds & Vic Hudson, undated.
National park to Stanwell Park with George & Harold, undated.
Yerranderie - Bindook - Talbon Family Trip, undated.
B.P. [Burning Palms], undated.
B.P. [Burning Palms], Rudder & Co., undated.

PXA 1740/Box 7
Walks & Camping Trips:
Marley, Wattamolla, Garie, Stanwell. H.G. Peatfield, G. Matheson, undated.
Leura Weekend, undated.
Weekend Leura, Mathesons, undated.
Rankin's Deua River First Trip with J. de Mol, undated.
Mulgoa, Warragamba, Wallacia, undated.
Warrigal and Dex (dogs), undated.
Untitled and undated photographs.

PXA 1740/Box 8
Family and Friends:
Portraits, 1914-1917.
Barrets, 1921.
Home, 1921.
Olga & Carol, June 1925; Olga, Carol & Winnie, pre-June 1925; Canoe Cruises.
Wedding, MJD & MD, 19 Dec. 1925.
Carol & Winnie, Mortdale, 1926.
Richardsons, Mortdale, 1927.
Mortdale, 1927.
Cousin Muriel, Katoomba, Wilfred, undated.
Rudders - various, undated.
Cabramatta, undated.
Bryan's Dog and Bill Cubis' Cat, undated.
Milo & Beryl, undated.
Domestic, undated.
Mother during her last years, undated.
Patonga with Marg & Milo, and Home, undated.

PXA 1740/Box 9
Family & Friends:
MJD at Mortdale, undated.
Home, Pram, Kids, Marg, undated.
Untitled, undated.
Various Locations:
Views from Ushers Hotel, Sydney, 1914.
Bondi Cable House, 1916.
Sydney General Post Office tower, undated.
Unidentified Locations, undated.
Photographs of drawings, undated.


3. GLASS NEGATIVES
ON 525
Portrait of Arthur J. Hart, 1922, a civil engineer for whom Dunphy worked as a draughtsman; Map of the Bindook Highlands; Milo and Dex; Sketch Plan of Semi-Permanent C "The Reducible Minimum" (comic); "Mr Dunphy's Proposed Walking Tour As Seen By Our Special Artist Part 1" (comic); unidentified camps and canoes.

4. NEGATIVES (film)
ON 526
Land On & Adjacent to Konangaroo Plateau embracing the proposed Konangaroo State Forest; Milo leaves for England, 1954; Dexter and party.

5. SLIDES 259
Myles Dunphy at work at the University of NSW School of Architecture, ca. 1954; Early Maps of Sydney and NSW.


6. SKETCHBOOKS
PXA 1740/Boxes 10-11; PXE 1499/Boxes 3-5
Include views and topographical drawings of the Blue Mountains, Wollondilly River, Jenolan, Geehi, Talbingo, Little Hartley, Hastings River, Camden Haven River, Laurieton, Gungah Bay (Georges River), Blue Mountains, Bundanoon, Mystery Bay, Narooma, Brindabella, Gerroa, Gerringong, Tuncurry, Heathcote, Otford, Warrumbungles, Kanangra as well as campsites, architectural drawings, portraits, cartoons and student drawings, 1907-1972. Includes 1 sketch book by Dexter Dunphy, 1953 and 3 sketch books by Harry Whitehouse.


7. LOOSE SKETCHES & DRAWINGS
PXE 1499/Box 6 and PXD 1352/Box 3
Include views of Katoomba; Wells Cathedral; Westminster Abbey; Carlon's House, 1947; Michael Coman's Place The Burra, 1920; topographical sketches; unidentified landscapes, Illustrated map of Dead Man's Island, 1908-1964, undated. Also includes some drawings, 1952 by Dexter Dunphy.

PXX 104/Folder 3
Morong Deep, Upper Kowmung River
Megalith, Upper Kowmung River
Kanangra, 1955: Tartarus Deep; East Christy’s Gorge; Kanangra Grand Gorge
Dungalla Falls or Cascades – A Memory impression
The Dingbat Perfectly Balanced Pack
Iron Bark Stool at Venn’s Hut
A "Remarkable Chart of the War", 1918.
School of Architecture First Year Lecture Charts, 1959/48??: Saxon Hut; Igloo; Wigwam or Teepee; Tree House Papua
Bert Gallop’s Kowmung Cobbling
Discovery of the source of the Kowmung River by two famous Russian Explorers
Poster for Annual Bushwalkers’ Ball

PXE 1499/Box 7
The Cyclist Member of the MTC
Nurzeys & Zeck’s Drawings for Lantern Slides: The Irreducible Minimum; Woronora River Camp Map and Structure; J. Allsopp's Sketch of MJD on Tour
Mr Dunphy’s Proposed Walking Tour

PXX 104/Folder 4
Walking Tours. Illustrations for a series of lecturettes on walking, camping and outdoor life generally.


8. TOPOGRAPHICAL DRAWINGS
PXX 104/Folder 5
Include:
Blue Mountains, 1953
Lacys Creek Valley, 1971
Snowy Mountains, 1931
Kanangra Tops
Kowmung River Valley, 1932
Grose Canyon, 1964
Warrumbungle Mountains, 1964
Yerranderie, 1971
Sketch map of Kanangra Tourist Resort, 1939

PXX 104/Folder 6 (Outsize folder)
Topographical sketches by Harry Whitehouse, 1946: From McMahon's Lookout; From Mt Coolah; From Bellbird Point; Above the Devil's Hole.


9. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS
ARCH 24/Folder 1
Technical Drawings 1st to 4th Years Construction & Architecture, 1907-1910.

ARCH 24/Folder 2
Architectural Drawings including plans for Boyd Kanangra shelters; and "Investigation of House Project by Milo Kanangra Dunphy".
Drawings by Myles Dunphy for Arthur J. Hart: Surf Bathing Accommodation, Coogee, 1913;
Bowen Bridge, Windsor, Brisbane, 1913; Bridge over Shark Creek, Harwood Shire, Maclean, 1916.

ARCH 24/Folder 3 & ARCH 24/Folder 4
Blue Prints of designs for Arthur J Hart, 1914-1922 100
Include bridges, foundry premises, grain silos, oil tanks, factory buildings, raft tank & footings, BHP admin. building at Newcastle, tank tower, steam-wagon house etc.

ARCH 24/Folder 5
Plan for Stockmen’s' Hut, 1959.
Suggested design for Tourist Information Centre etc. at Glenbrook, 1965
Sketch Plan of Suggested Layout for Tourist Improvements at Boyd Creek Crossing, 1939
Plans of two cottages and a bungalow, 1919

ARCH 24/Folder 6
Walkers Hostel and Tourist Amenities

ARCH 24/Folder 7
Carpentry Joints and Brickwork.
Drawings and photographs of Meggitt's Oil Tanks and Silo, Parramatta, 1915.
Building Construction Drawings Stage 3 by MJD
Woodford Entrance Gateway designs, 1962

ARCH 24/Folder 8
Blue Prints Concrete Construction, Theatre etc

ARCH 24/Folder 9
Plans for Myles Dunphy's residence at Block 15, Mi-Mi Street, Oatley, 1924-1925

ARCH 24/Folder 10
Design for Currarong, South Coast Tourist Resort by student Robert F. Lee, 1944. Includes a report to be read in conjunction with the drawings.

ARCH 24/Folder 11
Historic Architecture Studies by S.T.C. students, 1930s
Art Gallery of NSW; Darlinghurst Courthouse; Great Hall, Sydney University; Ultimo House; The Kings School Chapel; 'Rockwell' Potts Point; Denham Court, Ingleburn; The Union Club, Sydney; Burdekin House; St James', Sydney; St Luke's, Liverpool; St John's, Parramatta; St Paul's, Redfern; St Mark's, Darling Point; St Paul's, Cobbity; Palazzo Farnese, Rome.


10. VARIOUS TECHNICAL DRAWINGS
ARCH 24/Folder 12
Includes:
Design for Sydney Technical College Honour Board
Mountain Trails Club insignia
Furniture
Blue Mountains National Park signs, 1960
Cruising Canoe, 1919
7 x 5 Tent plans, 1954

ARCH 24/Folder 13
Includes:
Blue Mountains National Park Trust insignia, 1966.
Mountain Trails Club insignia.
Institutional seal for Institute of Engineers Australia
Small Park Sign
Swag details.
Leggings - patterns for Winnie & Marjorie's Kowmung tour.

ARCH 24/Folder 14
Sulman diploma designs
Designs for Notice from the Big Tree at Miara Private Bushland Camp (See LR for actual sign)


11. PRINTS
PXD 1352/Box 4
7 etchings of rural scenes, 1922-1923 including "The Fringe of Dainty Pines" (Sandy Point, Conjola) / by Herbert R. Gallop.
Tomb in Cobbitty Churchyard; and "Bungarribee" on Eastern Creek, 1921 / by Hardy Wilson.
New York at Night, 1908.
Aquatint of a woman / by William Hole.


12. PAINTINGS
PXD 1352/Box 5
Blowhole Point, Kiama, 1910; Colour Impression; Glen and Loch in Scotland, ca.1912 / by Myles Dunphy.
Old Farmhouse, 1912; Fairy Bower, Manly, 1918; Myles Dunphy fishing, ca.1917; Colong; Sketch made on Honeymoon Trip; Beach scene; and 4 untitled views, two of them dated 1922 / by Herbert R. Gallop.


13. REALIA
R 2081
"Mars Staedtler" pencil box, tin, containing pencils, erasers and a pen knife. 5.3 x18.2
R 2082
Printing Blocks: 19.5 x 10.7:
Item 1. Map of Katoomba & Narrow Neck Peninsula and Environs in connection with Greater Blue Mountains National Park, 1936
Item 2. Southern Blue Mountains Reserve for Preservation of Fauna & Flora, 1987
Item 3. Letterhead for NSW Mountain Trails Club

LR 97
Notice from the Big Tree at Miara Private Bushland Camp, a special lease taken up by the Mountain Trails Club. (Miara is an area on Heathcote Creek in Heathcote National Park).

POSTERS (transferred to Posters Collection)
1. 'The Genesis of Australian Printing'(School of Graphic Arts, Sydney Technical College).
2. 'Cattle of the Inland, Australia' (Australian National Publicity Association).
3. 'Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia' (Australian National Publicity Association).


Forms part of Myles Dunphy papers at MLMSS 4457

Access via appointment - Applies to ON 525, ON 526, SLIDES 259, R 2081, R 2082, LR 97
Access via appointment - Applies to: PXX 104/Folder 6 (Outsize folder)

Copyright restrictions may apply: Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright for the life of creator plus 70 years.
Copyright restrictions may apply: Paintings, sketches, architectural plans & published prints are out of copyright if creator died before 1955 ; paintings, sketches & architectural plans are in copyright if creator died after 1955. Prints published before 1955 are out of copyright
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Pic.Acc. Update Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.5842 as part of the eRecords Project, 2012-2013

See related pictorial material Myles Dunphy : collection of lantern slides of views in New South Wales and overseas at SLIDES 44
PXD 1352/Boxes 1-5 transferred from PXD 1352/Boxes 2, 4-5, 24-25, November 2023
PXX 104/Folders 1-6 transferred from PXD 1352/Folders 1, 3, 6-9, November 2023
ARCH 24/Folders 1-14 transferred from PXD 1352/Folders 10-23, November 2023