Item 2: E.C. Platt photograph album of northern New South Wales including portraits of Aboriginal people

PXA 763/vol. 1

item

approximately 1845-1934

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Watercolours, Paintings

1170311

Partly Digitised : Vol. 1: 'Burning Off'

1 album (61 photographs, drawings and paintings) - watercolours, oil, albumen - 23.0 x 27.5 cm (album)

Includes photographs (albumen) of group portraits, Armidale 1885, Dangar's Falls 1885, Terrible Vale Station 1885, Survey Camp, Kangaroo shooters 1885, McDonald River, Clarence River 1896, Grafton floods 1889-90, Grafton Races 1888, Ramornie Meat Works 1895, Aboriginals of the Clarence River District, November 1895, H.M.S. "Lizard" 1892, Grafton Rowing Club, Central Australian Aboriginals 1904. Also includes watercolours of Indian subjects (portraits & scenes) possibly by Jane Shebarras, paintings on mica and newscuttings.

Page:
1. Armidale 1885
2 photographs

2. Armidale 1885
2 photographs

3.
a. Armidale
b. Group portrait, Armidale, 1882. Writing identifying individuals is illegible

4. Dangar’s Falls 1885

5. Dangar’s Falls 1885

6. Dangar’s Falls 1885

7. Dangar’s Falls

8. Dangar’s Falls

9.
a. A holiday at Dangar’s Falls group portrait
b. Pool at bottom of Dangar’s Falls group portrait
c. The Duke meeting the oldest inhabitant of Uralla Mr F. G. Taylor…1934

10.
a. Terrible Vale Station, Homestead – Taylor Family, 1885
b. Homestead, Terrible Vale Station (probably) Group Portrait

11. Terrible Vale Station
2 photographs

12.
a. Survey Camp at New England
b. Kangaroo Shooters Terrible Vale, mostly station hands Terrible Vale and Salisbury Court, 1885

13. Presbyterian Church Armidale

14. St. Kilda Hotel, Armidale 1885

15. Group portrait, St Kilda Hotel, Armidale, 1885

16.
a. McDouall’s River New England
b. Armidale

17. McDonald River

18.
a. Group portrait, Holiday McDonald River
b. Group portrait, Armidale

19. Group portrait, Armidale (probably)

20. St Kilda Boys, Group portrait, Armidale, 31 May 1885

21. Homestead and group portrait

22.
a. North Grafton, 1896
b. Clarence River in flood

23. Grafton flood, cnr Prince and Fitzroy Streets, 12 March 1890

24.
a. Grafton flood, the Boulevard, 20 July 1889
b. Grafton flood, Prince Street Wharf, 20 July 1889

25.
a. Rower, 1889
b. Grafton Annual Races 1888
c. Grafton Races, 1888

26. Group portrait, Winners of the Maiden Fours, Grafton Regatta 24 May 1892

27.
a. Ramornie Meatworks, Clarence River, about 1895
b. Ramornie Meatworks, Clarence River about 1895

28.
a. Aboriginal man and children, Clarence River District, November 1895
b. Dovedale, Clarence River
c. Newscutting, historic Grafton orchard

29-30. HMS Lizard, opposite Prince Street Grafton, 4 May 1892

31.
a. Aboriginal men re-enacting skirmish, Clarence River District, November 1895
b. Buildings, Grafton?

32. Aborigines, ceremony, Clarence River district, November 1895

33.
a. Aborigines, large group portrait, Clarence River District, November 1895
b. Homestead, Clarence River District (probably)

34. Aborigines, ceremony featuring women, Clarence River District, November 1895

35.
a. Grafton Rowing Club, 1890
b. The opening of the Grafton Rowing Club Shed, 1890

36. Aboriginal man and woman in bush scene with spears, shield and boomerangs

37. Farmer with bull

38. Bulls

39. Men diving into a river, with rowers, Grafton Rowing Club (probably)

40. Indian scenes
2 postcards

41. Indian scenes
2 postcards

42. Indian scenes
2 postcards

43. Indian scenes
2 postcards

44. Indian scenes
2 postcards

45. Indian scenes
2 postcards

46. Indian scenes
3 postcards

47. Indian scenes
2 postcards

48. Indian scenes
2 postcards

49. Indian scenes
3 postcards

50.
a. Hand painted portrait possibly by Jane Sheberras, approximately 1845
b. Indian postcard

51.
a. Hand painted portrait, approximately 1845
b. Hand painted portrait on ivory
c. Indian postcard

52.
a. Hand painted portrait, the Prince of Delhi, the Emperor of Delhi, approximately 1845
b. Indian postcard
c. Indian postcard

53. Aboriginal men with weapons, Central Australia, approximately 1904

54.
a. Aboriginal men and children, Central Australia, approximately 1904
b. Aboriginal men with weapons, Central Australia, approximately 1904

55.
a. Aboriginal men with weapons, Central Australia, approximately 1904
b. Aboriginal men in ceremonial costume, with weapons, Central Australia, approximately 1904

56.
a. Aboriginal men with weapons, Central Australia, approximately 1904
b. Aboriginal women and baby, Central Australia, approximately 1904

57. Reproduction of Plan of the Town of Sydney by James Meehan, approximately 1807

58. Newscuttings

59. Photograph of drawing of a frigate of 1780 – typical of the HMS Champion on which John Laurio Platt joined as Midshipman at Malta in 1801.

60. List of the dances: Railway Opening Ball, Glen Innes, 1884

61.
a. Photograph of drawing of the ship Rattlesnake
b. Photograph of drawing of the ship Maeander off Port Essington

62. Cuttings entitled ‘Aboriginal scenes’ from The Australian Forestry Journal, 1924.

Loose photographs:
Unidentified town
St Kilda Hotel

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Photograph album (Vol. 1) belonged to E.C. Platt

Vol. 1. For an account of the Clarence River District corroboree in November 1895 see Lower Clarence. (1895, November 23). Clarence and Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1889 - 1915), p. 4. Retrieved April 1, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61275231

Vol. 1 - photographs mostly titled in top left corner.