Series 23: Sir Joseph H. Carruthers glass lantern slides of visit to Hawaii for the sesquicentennial celebration of Captain Cook's landing,1924-1930 and 3 portraits from the Carruthers collection

SLIDES 198
ML 1447
MPG/182
P3/253

series

c.1890s-1930

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Watercolours, Prints

910063

7 boxes containing 60 lantern slides - glass, some coloured - 8.4 x 8.2 cm and 10.5 x 8.1 cm
1 photograph - gelatin silver, mounted - 55 x 44 cm
1 watercolour painting - mounted, framed - 60 x 52 cm
1 lithograph - on particle board - 55 x 40 cm

Sir Joseph H. Carruthers, solicitor, parliamentarian and Premier of NSW, was born at Kiama, NSW, son of John and Charlotte Carruthers. Carruthers was elected to the NSW Legislative Assembly in the seats of Canterbury (1887-1894) and St. George (1894-1908) before being elected to the NSW Legislative Council (1908-1932). Among other roles, he was Leader of the Opposition from 1902 to 1904, and Premier of NSW from 1904 to 1907. Carruthers retired in 1907 and represented New South Wales at the Franco-British Exhibition in England in 1908. He published a book on Captain James Cook in 1930.

This pictorial material is part of Carruthers papers at MLMSS 1638

SLIDES 198:

7 boxes containg 60 glass lantern slides with captions (slides have been renumbered)

Box 1 - Cook Honolulu, Hawaii
1. Scenes - Cook's early life
2. The Endeavour
3. Tungi - Cook's Tortoise
4. Native house - 150 years ago
5. Hawaiian natives - 150 years ago
6. Hawaiian dance - 150 years ago
7. Dance natives - 150 years ago
8. Dance of natives - 150 years ago

Box 2 - Sir Joseph Carruthers
1. Tungi Tortoise
2. Tycan native - Leruka
3. Vulcan island - Tonga
4. Vavau - the village boy
5. ... at Samoa
6. A Samoan village
7. A long road Wahoohoo
8. Going to Monument
9. View from Cook monument during sesquicentennial ceremonies
10. Untitled (duplicate - Hawaiian girl with utensils)
11. Untitled
12. Untitled

Box 3 - Miss Wall - Volcano, Hawaii
1. Visiting Kaawaloa 1924 (Sir Joseph Carruthers and party in Canoe disembarking at Napoopoo)
2. Volcano 1924 (Kilauea Volcano in eruption)
3. Kilauea erupting


4. Kilauea erupting
5. Kilauea erupting 1924
6. At volcano 1924
7. Miss Wall at Kealakekua
8. Miss Wall on Ranch

Box 4 - Sir Joseph Carruthers
1. Hawaiian girl with utensils
2. Diagram - Kealakekua
3. Wharf Napoopoo (Napoopoo Wharf leaving for Cook's Monument)
4. Landing in canoe 1924 (Sir J.H. Carruthers and party in canoe about to land at Kaawaloa close to monument)
5. Carruthers at Mon[ument] (Sir Joseph Carruther's party at Cook's Monument)
6. King's House (1779)
7. Where Cook's body burnt
8. King Kalakua at (1880)

Box 5 - Extras - Cook Celebrations for Cong...
1. Waimea Australias ?
2. Crowd at monument Kaawaloa
3. Close-up Monument - Kaawaloa
4. Daughters of Hawaii Army & Navy YMCA (Aloha Committee of the Daughters of hawaiian Warriors at the Army & Navy YMCA, Honolulu, T.H., August 17 1928. Left to right: Mrs MercedesHutchison Worley; Mrs Kaulia; and Mrs Charles L. Hall.)
5. Governor Farrington
6. Carruthers at Napoopoo
7. Salute - Kealakekua (Naval vessels firing a salute during Cook Sesqui-centennial, Island of Hawaii, August 18, 1928.)
8. Carruthers & General Fox Conner (Fort Shafter, T.H., August 11, 1928. Sir Joseph Carruthers, Aust. representative at the Cook sesqui-centennial celebrations; Major General Fox Conner; Commanding Hawaiian Department; The Honourable Herbert A. Doyle, member of the NSW Legislative Assembly; Colonel L.W. Oliver, Chief of Staff; Leiut. J.T. Brown, Aide.)
9. Rev. Restanek & Wallace ?

Box 6 - Sir Joseph Carruthers
1. View of Monument - hillside and point Kaawaloa
2. Captain Cook proclaiming New South Wales a British Possession, Botany Bay, 1770
3. Warships - Kealakekua
4. (Coloured) Kealakekua from Hill Road
5. Map to Cook's voyages
6. Untitled (duplicate - Map to Cook's voyages)
7. View of the settlement on Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, 20th August 1788
8. Monument 1880 (View of Monument and Queen's Cottage at rear)
9. Untitled (duplicate - View of Monument and Queen's Cottage at rear)

Box 7 - Sir Joseph Carruthers
1. Untitled ('Surely if the United States ... her lands if properly opened up.')
2. Untitled ('The area of unalienated land ... a block of 1,605 acres.')
3. Untitled ('This area of land might be large ... of transport and other difficulties.')
4. Untitled ('If however, Developmental Works ... useful for practical Settlement.')
5. Untitled ('That is the Practical Policy ... under the Empire Settlement Act.')
6. Untitled ('It is a Policy which will pay. ... will be placed on idle hands.')

3 Portraits

1. P3/253
Lithographic print portrait of Admiral Sir Henry Rawson drawn by Charles William Walton, published in London, Walton & Co., including Rawson facsimile signature. Image removed from frame. (No date)

2. MPG/182:
Group photo portrait of the last Parkes Ministry, in which Sir Joseph Carruthers was the youngest member. Signatures of each minister on mount. Image removed from frame. (no date)

3. ML 1447:
Painted portrait of Elsie Carruthers, eldest daughter of Sir Joseph Carruthers aged 2 (she died aged 4). Framed in imitation walnut and beechwood with gold detail, marked 'American Portrait Copying Company' on bottom right-hand side of work.
(No date)

Slides housed in original boxes

Access via appointment - SLIDES 198, ML 1447, MPG/182, P3/253

Out of copyright: Photographs created before 1955
Copyright status:: Life of creator plus 70 years (applies to artworks)
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