James Keith Solling Houison pictorial material and realia, ca.1803-ca.1959

PXA 1721
PXD 1311
PXD 1312
R 2083
SLIDES 261
ON 527
Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 1, Shelf 22. Applies to R 2083/Item 3

fonds

ca.1803-ca.1959

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Architectural and Technical Drawings, Objects, Photographs, Clippings, Drawings, Ephemera, Posters, Prints

913288

Approximately 768 photographs - albumen, tintype, silver gelatin - various sizes
Approximately 886 ephemera items (postcards)
2 folders of textual material
2 seals - wax - approx. 10 x 10 x 1.8 cm. (broken) and 1.4 x 1.2 cm. (affixed to paper approx. 6.8 x 5.5 cm.)
1 plaque - alloy - 16.7 x 13.5 x 0.4 cm.
7 albums (chiefly engravings and postcards)
1 certificate - colour lithograph - 41 x 56.5 cm.
1 poster - colour screenprint - 39.5 x 28.5 cm.
5 photomechanical prints - 25.5 x 101.5 cm. or smaller
12 transparencies - b&w - 35mm.
82 negatives - chiefly glass - 22 x 16.5 cm. or smaller
11 architectural drawings - dyeline and blueprint - 52 x 72 cm. (largest), 40 x 39 cm. (smallest)
23 prints - engravings, etchings, lithographs - 42 x 62 cm. or smaller
18 drawings - pencil, ink, charcoal, watercolour - approx. 57 x 35 cm. (largest), 7.8 x 12.6 cm. (smallest)

Some material is from the papers of G. A. King. The original arrangement of the collection gives only partial indication of King material. Undated internal transfer note to Pictures Section from Manuscript Dept, found with Pic.Acc.2022, states 'Acquired as part of MLMSS 2045' and 'Don. Mrs J. K. S. Houison' (note discarded)

SERIES 01: PRINTS, PHOTOGRAPHS & POSTCARDS (Mitchell Library call no. PXA 1721)

PXA 1721/Box 1
21 prints: etchings, engravings, lithographs. Include 'Town & Cove of Sydney / Woodthorpe, Sc. Pub. by M. Jones, Paternoster Row, March 18 1803'; and Australian views after S. T. Gill published by Sands & Kenny, Sydney & Melbourne, 1857, and after S. Prout, T. Baines, N. Chevalier, J. Carr and J. C. Armytage, published by Virtue & Co., London; lithograph titled ‘Native Police’ (mounted police), ‘Plate 3’, ‘W. B. Clarke’ in pencil on verso; etching of Sydney Harbour Bridge, signed G. Marler; etching of Old Lennox Bridge, Parramatta River, signed G. Ansdell, bound as a greeting card.

Approx. 136 photographs: albumen and silver gelatin. Include cabinet card, carte de visite, and loose and mounted albumen and silver gelatin photographs. Some are captioned on verso. Portrait subjects include Rev. E. Smith, licensed minister Queanbeyan & Canberra; Herbert J. Ramsay, ca.1892; Lady Carrington, by Freeman; Colonial Artillery of New South Wales; Rev. J. B. Laughton; group portrait, 1930s? including Miss Granger, H. Granger and Mrs A. Granger, Miss Joan Stanfield, R. Stanfield and Mrs Stanfield, R. J. Lukins and Mrs Lukins, Mrs L. S. Phillips, F. W. Bentley, Mrs Adcock, and others. Views include Lennox Bridge, Parramatta; Judge Blair’s home, Goldenmount; Grafton during flood, 23 January 1887; Nairn Cottage, July 1910; grave of John Poole; coach and horse with boys from Burnside Homes; Old Mill, Mt Gilead Estate; 3 silver gelatin copy prints from damaged original photographs of Lieut. McDougall (35mm. copy negs at FM1/5781-FM1/5783; original photographs discarded 1982).

PXA 1721/Box 2
182 photographs: carte de visite, tintype, stereoscopic, silver gelatin. Views include ‘Keyham’, Camperdown, Victoria; Burrinjuck Dam; Canberra, 1924, 1927; Sans Souci, Victoria; Cann River Hotel, 1922; Aboriginal carved tree at Merrigal Estate; “1st brick home in Australia at Windsor”; table tops by G. W. Green. Identified and unidentified portraits include Rev. H. H. Gaud; Rev Wm Wood, incumbent of Pennant Hills; Rev P. Galliard Smith, incumbent, Canberra Church; identified and unidentified group portraits, including Coronation Cadets’ camp at Crystal Palace [1911?]; Pastime Camp, Freshwater.

PXA 1721/Box 3
Approx. 710 postcards, ca.1905-1915. Mostly Australian views, inscribed or blank on verso. Many are addressed to G. A. King. Most are clearly commercially produced postcards. Original postcard prints have been filed with original photographs at PXA 1721 / Box 1.


SERIES 02: PICTORIAL AND TEXTUAL MATERIAL (Mitchell Library call no. PXD 1311)

PXD 1311/Box 1
2 drawings: ink. Titled 'Black Bobs Creek Bridge, Berrima-Goulburn Road'; 'Berrima (original) Bridge, from sketch in Sir Thomas Mitchell's Field Book C 53, Mitchell Library ...'. Both drawings signed and dated H. W. Cotton, [19]20.

7 drawings: pastel and watercolour. Include views titled ‘Byrnes Clothing Factory 1850’ (unsigned); view of colonial house initialed ‘BB’; ‘Bull’s Run’, Kurrajong, by Mrs Cranstoun[?].

1 folder of textual material: Includes manuscript notes regarding seats at Royal Australian Historical Society (plans at PXD 1312); manuscript table of surnames relating to districts of NSW; 1 page manuscript notes about Chief Inspectorship of railways?, date stamped 21 Feb 1923; carbon typescript letter re building at 357 George Street, Sydney; admission ticket to official opening of History House, 7 February 1941; invitation to laying of the foundation stones of St Andrew’s Church, Parramatta, 8 August 1925; terms and conditions of option to purchase History House, 25/11/1957 (roneo, with mss annotations); autographed program for address by H. C. Armstrong at Sydney Boys’ High School, 25/5/1959.

1 folder of textual material and pictorial material from a wrapper marked “Rowley” (discarded): original wash drawing of interior of a cathedral, unsigned, approx. 23 x 32.5 cm.; printed obituary of Mrs Briggs, d.27 September 1882; 6 photographs including carte-de-visite portrait of an unidentified woman, views of Sydney and school group portrait; printed list of officers of Burwood Bowling Club, 1944-1945.

Approx. 83 loose and mounted photographs: 19th century views of Sydney and Parramatta; portraits of Alfred Henry Brown; A. J. Hare; Charles J. Love (dated May 1915); 'H's father or grandfather'; Miss Burns, Parramatta; Charles Thomas Weaver, police magistrate, Parramatta.

5 folders (approx. 86 original photographs and copy prints, 2 drawings, manuscript notes, correspondence and cuttings). Titled “Porfolio no.7” to “Portfolio no.11”, with numbered key to contents on front covers. Probably from the collection of G. A. King: includes correspondence addressed to him. Photographs include students in cadet training ship ‘Macquarie’, 1898; Sydney Bushwalkers club Annual Swimming Carnival at Leumea, 1934; views of historic sites in Sydney, Parramatta, Windsor, Bathurst; portraits including Phil and Mrs May; planting of Prime Ministers’ Avenue, Faulconbridge, 1935; Prince of Wales visit to Sydney, 1920, including pinning one of his losing betting tickets to the coat of a member of his staff at Randwick Races, Sydney, and decorating Brigadier-General C. F. Cox. Drawings: ink drawing by Edgar A. Holloway of General Gordon Statue in Trafalgar Square; charcoal profile of Harry Sherring by Kerwin Maegraith.

1 folder containing approx. 64 miscellaneous photographs, 5 watercolours, postcards and newscuttings removed from files in the Houison papers in January 1982, including views of Camperdown Cemetery found attached to file marked “Miscellaneous papers no.964 Camperdown Cemetery including G. A. King’s speech re. Balmain Cemetery Aug. 16 1947”; and photos removed from file marked “Bits & Pieces of History”. Includes early automobile races; bathing machines at Coogee; Cambridge Hall, Newtown; Milson’s Point Ferry Arcade. 5 wash and watercolour sketches of scenes from the journey of Burke & Wills, with instructions in pencil and brushpoint regarding publication; one signed “A. H. Burkitt”; between 12.2 x 19 cm. and 7.8 x 12.6 cm.

1 poster: ‘Back to Parramatta’, 145th Anniversary 1788, Oct 26th to Nov 4th 1933. Colour screenprint by Argus Print, Parramatta. 39.5 x 28.5 cm.

PXD 1311/Box 2
7 albums: snapshot album containing 103 postcards and commercial photographs of Tasmania; album containing approx. 73 postcards (Australian and non-Australian views); 5 scrap albums, chiefly containing engravings (1 etching titled on verso “The Forest Pathway / Etched by H. Deilers”)

PXD 1311/Box 3
Approx. 117 photographs, with newscuttings and photomechanical prints. Mostly copy prints relating to Australian historical research

1 certificate: voting certificate for Andrew H. McCulloch, Australasian Federal Referendum, July 1899.

2 panoramic views of Parramatta : photomechanical reproductions of panoramic photographs. Supplement to the Christmas number of “The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers’ Advocate”, Dec 17, 1904; and Panorama of Parramatta, 1925, by R. P. Moore, issued by the Cumberland Argus (25.5 x 101.5 cm.)

3 reproductions of sketches by Rhys Williams

1 engraving: The Australian International Exhibition Building, 1879, issued with “The Graphic” illustrated newspaper, London (extensive tears and stains).

1 drawing: pencil rubbing of gravestone of [C]atherine Crowley, d. Jan 6th 1800, sheet approx. 57 x 35 cm.


SERIES 3: PHOTOGRAPHS MAINLY OF VIEWS IN NEW SOUTH WALES, PREDOMINANTLY 1928-1939 (see separate catalogue records ; Mitchell Library call no. PXA 7214)


SERIES 04: ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS & PLANS (Mitchell Library call no. PXD 1312)
See separate catalogue record SERIES 4 NOS. 1-10: Remodelling of no. 8 Young Street Sydney for the Royal Australian Historical Society, 14 October 1940 / Frank G. Costello architect (PXD 1312/nos. 1-10)

PXD 1312/no. 11
1 architectural plan: Plan of proposed alterations and additions to shop premises Church & George Sts Parramatta for Mr R. Moxham. Undated. Scale 1/8” = 1’0”. Blueprint; approx. 52 x 72 cm.


SERIES 05: SLIDES (Mitchell Library call no. SLIDES 261)

SLIDES 261
12 black and white 35mm. transparencies: from envelope inscribed “Spare transparencies of St James” [Church, Sydney].


SERIES 06: NEGATIVES (Mitchell Library call no. ON 527)

ON 527 (2 boxes)
78 black and white glass plate negatives: 8.5 x 11 cm., 10 x 12.5 cm., 12 x 14 cm., 22 x 16.5 cm.
Glass negatives are from the collection of G. A. King.

Subjects include Vaucluse House and Nielsen Park, carting rabbits to market at Burrowa [Boorowa], NSW, Camperdown Cemetery, portrait of a woman with ornate bodice and headdress, “Young Miss F.”; buildings in Eden, Feb 1906, with portraits of two women and children.

4 35mm. film negatives relating to St John’s Church and Parsonage, Parramatta, and copies from the Sydney Morning Herald, Monday, 16 December 1850.

SERIES 07: REALIA (Mitchell Library call no. R 2083)

R 2083
1 brown wax seal, broken; approx. 10 x 10 x 1.8 cm. group of fragments from a larger circular seal. Part of text and motif is visible on surface.

1 red wax seal affixed to fragment of an envelope. Seal approx 1.4 x 1.2 cm. featuring griffin motif; paper stamped “JU30 1849” in red ink.

1 plaque : alloy, 16.7 x 13.5 x 0.4 cm. Pencil inscription on reverse reads "Cast of tablet at Kurnell ... [illegible]". Text on obverse in memory of James Cook and Joseph Banks (“This spot once saw them ardent in the pursuit of knowledge / Now to their memory this tablet is inscribed / in the first year / of / the Philosophical Society of Australasia / Sir Thomas Brisbane … / President / AD MDCCCXXI”)

Architectural plans, realia, slides and negatives are catalogued as separate formats at PXD 1312, R 2083, SLIDES 261 and ON 527 respectively. All other pictorial and textual material is housed according to size at PXA 1721 and PXD 1311. Within PXA 1721 and PXD 1311, printed material, copy photographs and original photographs have been allocated to distinct sets as far as possible, except where these were found together as a folder of material.

Access via appointment - Applies to R 2083, SLIDES 261 and ON 527

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 status:: In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years - applies to architectural plans
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

This pictorial material, together with items at Mitchell Library call nos. MPG/27, XV*/COOK/2, and XV*/CERT/2 , are part of James Keith Solling Houison papers at MLMSS 2045.

Plaque at R 2083 was set into the face of a wooden block approx. 33.5 x 27.5 x 4 cm. with a sand-textured surface finish (wooden block discarded April 2013).

1 copy of Twenty-nine illustrations by John Everett Millais, R. A. : [designed for "The Cornhill magazine." With extracts descriptive of each picture] [London : Smith, Elder & co., 1867] transferred to Mitchell Library printed books, May 2013 (Call no.: Q769.941/1)