Trotter family pictorial material, ca.1883-1963

PXE 1329

fonds

ca.1883-1963

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Photographs, Watercolours, Ephemera, Clippings

915305

6 albums (approx. 427 photographs)
6 sketchbooks (approx. 227 drawings) - chiefly pencil, some ink, colour pencil, wash, and watercolour
36 photographs - cabinet card and silver gelatin
17 drawings - pencil and ink
4 silhouettes - window mounted
20 ephemera items - postcards
1 newscutting

“Fanny Maria Lomas Moore [daughter of Edward Lomas Moore] married William Trotter. They had two children, Ella, who married Alick Morton, and Fannie [or Fanny], who married Ramsay Salmon. Ella & Alick Morton and Fannie and Ramsay Salmon jointly built a home Fanella, (a combination of both girls’ Christian names) at Blackheath. Later Ramsay Salmon contructed the Belvedere golf-links on the property. There are a rough plan and some photos of the construction of the golf-links in this collection. Oran Park, Camden, once owned by Essington Moore, Fannie’s cousin (from 1932-39 album). Henry Willis, cottage, Medlow Bath, also of Innisfallen, Middle Harbour.” – Field Librarian’s notes on ML file.

“Mrs Fanny Salmon, Belgenny, Taylors Square, Darlinghurst, died 20th August 1980 aged 93. Miss D. M. Moore is Mrs Salmon’s cousin … William Trotter was manager of Sweets department store, Newtown. Mrs Salmon’s mother, Fanny Moore, was the eldest of of three sisters: Annie married Henry Willis, who resigned as N.S.W. Speaker in 1913 … The other sister, Lizzie, married Henry’s brother, Frank Willis, and their daughter, Frieda Willis, was a member of the Mitchell Library staff. Ella Morton was Mrs Salmon’s sister …” – information supplied by niece of the donor, on ML file, 1980.

Photographs:

36 loose and mounted photographs, chiefly studio portraits, with family shapshots; most identified on reverse.

Studio portraits include Trotter family; Ella and Fanny with fencing instructor; Alick Morton’s mother; Ramsay Salmon; Flora Eldersham; J. W. Edgeworth David, with signature and date Feb. 17, 1916 reproduced below portrait, accompanied by casualty list in Daily Telegraph, Monday 23 October 1916, where same portrait is reproduced.

Snapshots include Mr & Mrs Trotter, daughters Ella & Fannie Trotter (later Ella Morton and Fannie Salmon), Alick Morton, family residence Fanella; Memorial Park Blackheath 20.1.24 [three men and a woman in photo]; [postcard print of a woman and three men at a café table, each figure signed below:] F. Salmon; Aug[?] Andersberg; H. Petterson; three photographs of Robert Tudawali and Rosalie Kunoth? with a young baby, Charles Chauvel? in one shot (2 photos have piece of paper with “R. Tudawali” in ink, affixed to reverse, also inscribed “S. Matt[?], 25 40”); [two men and a woman:] Port Augusta 1963, taken with a couple of detectives.

Albums:

2 photograph albums containing photographs of Manila, Japan, United Kingdom and Blackheath (48 photographs)
“Maori Land 1910”, brown leather covers with green leather tiki on cover. 56 photographs, including Lord Kitchener’s party being guided by Maggie Papakura at Wairoa geyser, 6/3/[19]10.
Album with black covers, containing 133 b&w snapshots and 1 postcard, 1931-1942, including views of Fanella, Oran Park, 1930, 1936, cottage at Tuggerah, 1934, Convalescent Home, Darlinghurst, 1934, Henry Willis’ cottage, Medlow Bath, 1935, Collit’s Inn, 1935, Bathurst bowls, 1935, car trip with Mary Thompson, 1937, Canberra, Windsor, Edith Louden cottages, Newport, Manly women’s bowling green, 1938, ‘Gardiner’s Inn, old Hydora Astoria, demolished 1938’, Brisbane, Dee Why Baby Health Centre, 1939.

Album with black covers, containing 140 b&w snapshots, including Cairns trip, Tarralta, 1919, Mt Wilson, Mt York, 1919, Blackheath golf links, Shrimpton-Bain motor party 1923, ‘Fanella’ 1923-24, Frieda Willis, 21/4/25, Belvedere golf links.

Student drawing block containing snapshots, postcards and ephemera relating to trip in Northern Territory, 1949; ‘Mrs Salmon’s album’ in pencil on cover. Approx. 50 snapshots and 13 postcards. Includes Alice Springs and Darwin, Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission, Arltunga Catholic Mission, Mr & Mrs Jenkins, Coolibah Station Homestead, Aboriginal woman named Daisy, Rapid Creek Camp near Darwin, Dorothy Pyatt, Aboriginal people at McArthur River Station.

Drawings:

16 loose pencil sketches: views in South England, 1949, 19 x 12.5 cm. Dated 5/49 and 6/49. Includes sketch of Frieda Worthington home “Kuringai”, Bexhill; unsigned

Four silhouettes on one mount: profiles of Mr & Mrs Trotter?, Ella and Fannie. Inscribed in ink under lower two profiles: “Ella Trotter, Dresden Vogelwiese, Aug 1 1898, Fannie Trotter, Dresden Vogelwiese, Aug 1 1898.”

Ink diagram on card, 6 x 10.5 cm.: Plan of Belvedere Golf Links at Blackheath


Sketchbooks:

Album of 29 pencil and wash drawings, views of castles, buildings, and statue studies, by E. Inglis? 2 dated 13 Sept 1883, 17 Sept 1883. Some initialed “E.I”; “Inglis” written in faintly in pencil in one signature? Partially disbound sketchbook, without covers. 23 x 30 cm.

Sketchbook in light grey cloth covers, publisher’s label “Emil Geller Nachf., Dresden” inside front cover; signed “E. Trotter” inside front cover. Pencil sketches (some watercolour), some signed “Ella Trotter”, various dates, 1900. 34 pages

Sketchbook in light grey cloth covers. Sketches initialed E. M., 1940. Includes views of Fanella and Blackheath school, a family tree and rough house plans. 18 sketches

‘Embassy’ botany book, ‘Ella Morton 1947-48 Blackheath’ on cover in pencil. 15 pencil and 1 ink sketch. Includes pencil drawing dated 13/9/47 of grave with headstone inscription ‘Sacred to the memory of Fannie Maria Trotter Born 4 Feb 1856 Died 28 Aug 1921 Also Alick Allan Morton Died 11 July 1942’; also Charles William Hastings Ballantyne, d. 6 July 1942; Mrs Bachtold’s cottage, Shipley Rd, 1947, and other views in Blackheath and Richmond.

Black sketchbook, approx. 107 pencil sketches of views in Norway and UK, 1906, Leura and Blackheath, 1907, and figure studies and views of ‘Fanella’ (Blackheath), Sydney, UK, and Holland, 1949-1964

“Schetsboek” on cover, 15.5 x 24 cm. 23 pencil, ink and watercolour views in Delft, Bexhill, Torquay, Poolbrook, Cheltenham and other UK and unidentified locations. Some dated ’49 or 4/49.

Ephemera items:

20 postcards of Italy, New Zealand, Northern Territory and Hong Kong. New Zealand postcards include 2 signed by guide Maggie Papakura of Whakarewarewa, 22/2/[19]10.

Out of copyright: Applies to photographs created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Copyright restrictions may apply: Applies to photographs created after 1955 - life of creator plus 70 years
Copyright status:: In copyright - Artistic works by Ella Morton - d.1968 + 70 years

Fanny Salmon (nee Trotter) is spelled Fannie or Fanny in various instances.

Fanella, "the well-known country residence of W. Trotter, Esq.", was advertised "for sale or to let (3 years' lease)" in the Sydney Morning Herald, 5 February 1898, "in consequence of the early departure of his family from the colony" (accessed via Google News, 9/11/2012).

Oran Park, Camden was once owned by Essington Moore, Fannie's cousin. Frieda Willis, a relation who appears in these photographs, was on ML staff and died 1945-46 [i.e. 1946 in NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages online index] -- ML file

Other material at MLDOC 3527, ML 890, ML 892, P*102, P1/Trotter, William and P1/Moore, Fanny Maria, forms part of this collection.