Eric Walwyn Ormsby Martin photographs and slides, 1896-1957

PXD 1202
PXE 1287
ON 484
SLIDES 212

fonds

1 July 1896-7 October 1957

Graphic Materials, Photographs

913020

8 albums (approx. 1540 photographs) and approx. 1156 mounted and loose photographs - silver gelatin photoprints - approx. 36 x 45 cm. or smaller
12 slides - colour - 35 mm.
3 slides - lantern, coloured
250 negatives - b&w - 35 mm.

The initial consignment of papers and pictorial material of E. O. Martin was presented by L. W. O. Martin in March 1973 (MLMSS 2498; Pic.Acc.2770), with further pictorial material added in October-December 1973 (MLMSS 2498 ADD-ON 628, MLMSS 2498 ADD-ON 641) and December 1974 (MLMSS 2498 ADD-ON 817).

PXD 1202
Approx. 156 loose and mounted portraits and snapshots relating to family, school, college and professional activities and public office. Includes:

Family photographs: L. O. Martin, Lucy Maund, Blanche Jenkins, Bill Seldon, Annie [Dulhunty?] on the verandah of Wahgunyah, Blackheath, 1st July 1896; Mrs L. O. Martin with children E.W.O, R.A.O., S.G.O., [G?].W.O. & L.D.O.; view of unidentified house and property; approx. 20 Martin family holiday snapshots in Tasmania (including New Norfolk , Mt Wellington, Cascade gardens, Huon River, Launceston Power Station).

Photographs relating to professional activities and public office: Premises of L. O. Martin, Boyce and Martin Solicitors in Masonic Hall, Taree; [group portrait of 13 men at entrance to building] "Taken at office Newcastle Abattoirs 18.7.28 when Manning Bacon Company Directors visited Newcastle Abattoirs"; opening Taree [Golf? Club?]; group portrait at Wingham Bowling Club; turning on Taree-Wingham Water Supply 19.11.28.; “Taree Municipal Council when E. O. Martin was Mayor” (group portrait); mounted composite portrait photograph of Taree Municipal Council, 1928, including W. Wrigley, Mayor and L. O. Martin, MLA; turning on Wingham Water Supply, L.O.M., F. S. B., June 1929; the first Conference of Australian Legal Societies, Sydney, April 1933; 2 silver gelatin photoprints of a water reservoir; unidentified group around an anchor monument; ("Mr Martin stated that his mother and father are present" -- ML correspondence file).

School and college-related photographs: Taree High School XV 1914, The King’s School sporting team and cadet group portraits including E.W.O. , 1916-1918; The King’s School monitors, football and shooting teams, 1916-1918; Mounted photograph of Sydney Gore Ormsby Martin as school captain, receiving Yarralla Cup for first four in GPS rowing from his mother at school sports day, 1922 (captioned on verso.); SCEGS, 1930, 1934; St Paul’s College rowing eight, 1936; St Paul’s College, Sydney shooting team including E.W.O. (undated).

Miscellaneous: Unidentified studio portrait of three men, ca. 1900?, Crown Studio, Sydney; contact sheet of sailing regatta on Sydney Harbour; 2 silver gelatin photoprints of soldiers listening to radio, 30 March 1940, and at mess; mounted silver gelatin photoprint of “The Mount”, Bassett; Max Mills, photographer; 1940s? 26 photos of New Zealand views, various locations, undated.

PXE 1287/Box 1
Approx 1000 holiday snaps of UK, 1945, including London, Isle of Wight, Hampton’s Grammar School; Oxford v Cambridge cricket match, June 1945; Shewglie, Scotland

PXE 1287/Box 2
Photograph album of sailing, camping, bicycling and driving trips in NSW, 1908; possibly the Ebsworth family -- ML correspondence file); various locations including Hunter River, Kangaroo Valley, Kiama, Central Coast, Tweed River, Broken Bay, Cataract Reservoir, Wisemans Ferry, Cattai Creek; arrival of American Fleet in Sydney Harbour, 1908. 88 photographs
Photo album ca. 1922; 60 photographs including The King’s School activities, snapshots of L. O. Martin
Photograph album of 1929 cruise aboard RMS Comorin, showing Sri Lanka and Cocos Islands. 39 mounted and 6 loose photographs
56 RAF oblique aerial photographs of Palestine, February-March 1942. In folder addressed to the Officer Commanding, RAF Station, Gaza: Secret. Ref PH/54/42, 11/3/42

PXE 1287/Boxes 3-5
Photographs in Palestine, 1940, by E. O. Martin. Approx. 1347 photographs in 5 photograph albums (4 in vellum boards, one in commercial album with stencilled cover). Inscribed inside front cover: “E. O. Martin. N.X.1564. D. Coy. 2/2 Bn. A.I.F. Home address Taree NSW Australia”

ON 484
Approx. 250 35mm. b&w negatives: New Zealand views, including monument to William Francis Aonui Dennan ornamented with Maori motifs; skiffs on Sydney Harbour; holiday snaps of UK, 1945

SLIDES 212
3 coloured glass lantern slides for Whitfords Theatre Ads., Ltd.: “Vote L. O. Martin for Oxley electorate” [1941]
12 35mm. colour slides of opening of Queen Elizabeth Park, Taree, by NSW Governor, 7 October 1957

Photographs are arranged by size within PXD 1202.

Access via appointment - Applies to slides and negatives

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Copyright restrictions may apply: Applies to slides created after 1955

This pictorial material is part of Eric Walwyn Ormsby Martin papers at MLMSS 2498.

Glass slides at SLIDES 212 originally packed in fragments of the Truth newspaper, Sunday 20 April 1941 (discarded).