Box 03: Subject and place file, Australia - Army to Australian Aborigines – Mortuary customs, ca. 1830 to 1967

PXA 2113/Box 03

item

between ca. 1830 to 1967

1293105

109 photographic prints, prints, drawings and clippings (1 box)

AUSTRALIA
1. Australia – Army, 1908?
“Redcar 1908” – verso
Post card, sepia toned
2. Australia – Army – 1st Australian Light Horse, undated
“This photo was found loose in Curr, E.M. – The Australian Race Vol IV *D 298 – Beauchamp Collection. This note was attached to the picture by the Accessions Department 1966” - verso
Photograph, sepia toned
3. Australia – Army – 42nd Infantry, September 1916
The 42nd Infantry on parade at Rosebery Park, Sydney
Photograph, black and white, of a clipping
Negative at FM1 / 610

4. Australia – Exploration – 1856
Australian Expedition / Thomas Baines. Lot 724
Clipping

5. Australia – History, 1938
“Illustrations for an historic retrospect on the occasion of the 150th anniversary celebrations of the founding of Australia, 1938. [A booklet issued to school children]”
Folder with 8 coloured plates, each with many small prints illustrating Australia’s history.

6. Australia – Navy, undated
Photograph, black and white

7. Australia – Residences, 1967
Clipping on 2 pages
From: The S.M.H. Australia Unlimited, 17 July 1967

8. Australia House, London, undated
Photograph, black and white

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES
9 - 10 Australian Aborigines, c. 1846-54
Folder of 3 photographs on 2 pages
Originals at DG*D 4, no. 62-64
9. “Australian Aborigines – King George Sound”
2 photographs, black and white
Originals at DG*D 4, no. 62 & 63
10. “Australian Aborigines – King George Sound, South Australia”
Photograph, black and white
Original at DG*D 4, no. 64
11. Australian Aborigines, 1893 / Edw. Friström
“Portrait of an aborigine” - verso
Photograph, black and white, of a painting
From: Sotheby’s Belgravia sale of topographical paintings, 20th March 1973
12. Australian Aborigines, c. 1894 / G.W.W., photograph no. 1
“Date from “Catalogue of Photographs in Australia” Published by G.W. Wilson & Co. Ltd. 1894, in which this photograph is listed” – typed note under portrait
Photograph, sepia toned
13. Australian Aborigines, c. 1894 / G.W.W., photograph no. 2
“Australian Aboriginal Gladiators”
“Date from “Catalogue of Photographs in Australia” Published by G.W. Wilson & Co. Ltd. 1894, in which this photograph is listed” – typed note on verso
Photograph, sepia toned
14. Australian Aborigines, c. 1894 / G.W.W., photograph no. 3
“Australian Aborigines – “A Bush Fight””
Date from “Catalogue of Photographs in Australia” Published by G.W. Wilson & Co. Ltd. 1894, in which this photograph is listed – typed note to this effect on verso
Photograph, sepia toned
15. Australian Aborigines, 1894 / Kerry Photo, Sydney
“Date from MS title to set of photos” - verso
Photograph, sepia toned
16. Australian Aborigines, undated
“Possibly Australian Aborigines, cannot find which publication this came from if it does. S.M. May 1967” – handwritten note
Print, black and white
17. Australian Aborigines, undated
Print, black and white
18. Australian Aborigines, undated
Photograph, sepia toned
19. Australian Aborigines, undated / Kerry Photo, Sydney
“King of the Moruya Tribe”
Photograph, sepia toned
20. Australian Aborigines, undated / Kerry Photo, Sydney
“Warrior Boocoolmurra Tribe”
Photograph, sepia toned
21. Australian Aborigines, undated / Kerry Photo, Sydney, photograph no. 1
“Port Essenden Chief”?
Pencil note “Essington?”
Photograph, sepia toned
22. Australian Aborigines, undated / Kerry Photo, Sydney, photograph no. 2
“Port Essenden Chief”?
Pencil note “Essington?”
Photograph, sepia toned dated
23. Australian Aborigines, undated
Photograph, sepia toned
24. Australian Aborigines, undated
“Lawrie, first black to stay at mission”
Photograph, black and white
25. Australian Aborigines, undated
Photograph, sepia toned, attached to Christmas greeting card`
26. Australian Aborigines, undated, photograph no. 1
Photograph, sepia toned
27. Australian Aborigines, undated, photograph no. 2
Photograph, sepia toned
28. Australian Aborigines, undated, post cards nos. 1 & 2
2 post cards, coloured, on 1 page
29. Australian Aborigines, undated, post cards nos. 3 & 4
2 post cards, coloured, on 1 page
30. Australian Aborigines, undated, post cards nos. 5 & 6
2 post cards, coloured, on 1 page
31. Australian Aborigines, undated
“Well-known visitors in the early days – Billy and Alice”
Clipping
32. Australian Aborigines, undated
1. Group of elders
2. Australian mainland natives with spear and boomerang ready for a hunting expedition. The mainland natives make no attempt at any cultivation relying absolutely on roots, wild fruit and game. They rarely tat[t]oo themselves [but] paint the body with white red and blue pigments” - verso
2 photographs on 1 page, one sepia toned, the other black and white
33. Australian Aborigines, undated
“A blackfellow’s ascent of a tree”
Clipping on board
34. Australian Aborigines, undated
Photograph, sepia toned
35. Australian Aborigines, undated
“Bush natives going for a walkabout”
Photograph, black and white
36. Australian Aborigines, undated
Group portrait
Photograph, black and white
37. Australian Aborigines, undated
“Aboriginal Settlement, Yarraba”
Photograph, black and white
38. Australian Aborigines, undated
“Where the last of the district Aboriginals rest in the new general cemetery”
Clipping
39. Australian Aborigines, undated
“Aborigines of New South Wales”
Photograph, black and white, of a painting
From: Sotheby’s Belgravia sale of topographical paintings, 20th March 1973. Lot 25, Australian School, 19th century, Aborigines of N.S.W.
40. Australian Aborigines, undated
Photograph, black and white, of a painting
From: Christie’s sale 2 and 3 July 1962, lot 48

Australian Aborigines – Art
41. Australian Aborigines – Art, 1830
“Drawings of the natives & scenery of Van Diemens Land, 1830”
Photograph, black and white, of page 6 of The Lycett album [electronic resource] : drawings of Aborigines and Australian scenery / with commentary by Jeanette Hoorn.
“Alfred Sotheby’s Belgravia, 31 May 1972. Now held by National Library, Canberra” - verso
42. Australian Aborigines – Art, 1888
Corroboree; Wildlife / Mickey, or Willy, the Cripple from Ulladulla
Clipping
From: Christie’s, Sydney, 7 October 1986
43- 48 Australian Aborigines – Art, various dates
1 folder of 18 pages : 7 pages of photographs of news clippings about Aboriginal artist Tommy McRae, followed by 11 pages of his drawings (the original drawings are held at PXA 364)
43. Australian Aborigines – Art, 8 June 1929
Photograph, black and white, of a clipping
From: The Argus Camera Supplement
44. Australian Aborigines – Art, undated
Photograph, black and white, of a partial clipping (source unknown)
45. Australian Aborigines – Art, 20 August 1927
Handwritten note beneath clipping: “Tommy McCrae died in October 1901, and was buried, on the day after the Rutherglen show, on the banks of Lake Moodemere”
Photograph, black and white, of a clipping
From: The Australasian
46. Australian Aborigines – Art, 2 July 1927
Photograph, black and white, of a clipping
From: The Australasian
47. Australian Aborigines – Art, 1 May 1909
Photographs of clipping on 3 pages of folder
From: The Lone Hand, 1 May 1909, pages 42-48
48. Australian Aborigines – Art, undated / Tommy McRae
11 pages of photographs, black and white, of drawings – (the original drawings are held at PXA 364)
49. Australian Aborigines – Art, undated
Aboriginal relics at Menindie Darling River N.S.W.
Photograph, black and white

Australian Aborigines – Civilization and treatment
50. Australian Aborigines – Civilization and treatment, 1839?
Print, black and white
Original at DL Pd 30
Negative available at FM1 / 2380
51. Australian Aborigines – Civilization and treatment, 1858? / on stone by W.I. Walton; from a sketch by Col. Mundy; printed by Hullmandel & Walton
“Mounted police and blacks, an encounter”
Frontispiece to 1st and 2nd editions of Our antipodes / by Godfrey Charles Mundy
Print, black and white
52. Australian Aborigines – Civilization and treatment, 1886
Caption with original photograph: “Group of Aboriginals, “Dunlop” Station, Darling River”
Photograph, black and white
Original available at PX*D 255 no. 18
53. Australian Aborigines – Civilization and treatment in Victoria, c.1894
Photograph, sepia toned

Australian Aborigines – Dwellings
54. Australian Aborigines – Dwellings, undated
Photograph, black and white
55. Australian Aborigines – Dwellings, undated
Photograph, sepia toned
56. Australian Aborigines – Dwellings – N.S.W., undated
“Humpies on the NSW side of the Murray in the Swan Hill district …”
Clipping with coloured print
57. Australian Aborigines – Dwellings – W.A., c. 1894
Photograph, black and white
PXA 498 No. 22; ONCY 56:22

Australian Aborigines – Fire making
58. Australian Aborigines – Fire making, undated, photograph no. 1
Photograph, sepia toned
FM 1 / 5744
59. Australian Aborigines – Fire making, undated, photograph no. 2
Photograph, sepia toned

Australian Aborigines – Hunting and fishing
60. Australian Aborigines – Hunting and fishing, 1840-76
Aboriginal stalking kangaroos and birds / John Skinner Prout
“Lot 282”
Print, black and white
“Offered Leonard Joel, 9 November 1973”
61. Australian Aborigines – Hunting and fishing, 1886
Caption with original photograph: “Group of Aboriginals, “Chowilla” Station, Lower Murray River”
Photograph, black and white
Original available at PX*D 255 no.38
62 – 63 Australian Aborigines – Hunting and fishing – N.S.W., undated
3 photographs on 2 pages
62. Australian Aborigines – Hunting and fishing – N.S.W., undated
1. Photograph by H. King, Sydney. “Aboriginal Fisheries, Darling River, N.S.W.” no. 1387
2. Untitled photograph, sepia toned (photographer unknown)
2 photographs, sepia toned
63. Australian Aborigines – Hunting and fishing – N.S.W., undated / H. King, Sydney
“Aboriginal Fisheries, Darling River, N.S.W.” no. 1425
Photograph, sepia toned
On verso of item no. 62.
64. Australian Aborigines – Hunting and fishing – S.A., 1854
“South Australian Natives, fishing in the River Murray”
Clipping
From: Sydney Illustrated News, 1854
65. Australian Aborigines – Hunting and fishing – W.A., c. 1894
Print, black and white
PXA 498 No. 17; ONCY 56:17

Australian Aborigines – Implements and weapons
66. Australian Aborigines – Implements and weapons, 1870
Photograph, black and white
Original available at PXA 434 no. 6
Negative available at ONCY 38:6
67. Australian Aborigines – Implements and weapons, c. 1870-1880
Photograph, black and white
Original available at PXA 434 no. 3
Negative available at ONCY 38:3
68. Australian Aborigines – Implements and weapons, c. 1870-1880
Photograph, black and white
Original available at PXA 434 no. 4
Negative available at ONCY 38:4
69. Australian Aborigines – Implements and weapons, c. 1870-1880
Photograph, black and white
Original available at PXA 434 no. 7
Negative available at ONCY 38:7
70. Australian Aborigines – Implements and weapons, c. 1870-1880
Photograph, black and white
Original available at PXA 434 no. 12(b)
Negative available at ONCY 38:12(b)
71. Australian Aborigines – Implements and weapons, undated
Photograph, sepia toned
72. Australian Aborigines – Implements and weapons, undated
Photograph, sepia toned
73. Australian Aborigines – Implements and weapons, undated
“Aboriginal warriors, N.S.W.”
Photograph, sepia toned

Australian Aborigines – Missions
74 - 77 Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated
Booklet with 4 pages of photographs
74. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated
6 photographs, black and white, on 1 page
75. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated
4 photographs, black and white, on 1 page
76. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated
4 photographs, black and white, on 1 page
77. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated
5 photographs, black and white, on 1 page
78. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 1
Photograph, black and white
79. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 2
Photograph, black and white
80. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 3
Photograph, black and white
81. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph, no. 4
Photograph, black and white
82. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 5
Photograph, black and white
83. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 6
Photograph, black and white
84. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 7
Photograph, black and white
85. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 8
Photograph, black and white
86. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 9
Photograph, black and white
87. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 10
Photograph, black and white
88. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 11
Photograph, black and white
89. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 12
Photograph, black and white
90. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 13
Photograph, black and white
91. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 14
Photograph, black and white
92. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 15
Photograph, black and white
93. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 16
Photograph, black and white
94. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 17
Photograph, black and white
95. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 18
Photograph, black and white
96. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 18
Photograph, black and white
97. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 19
Photograph, black and white
98. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 20
Photograph, black and white
99. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 21
Photograph, black and white
100. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 22
Photograph, black and white
101. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated, photograph no. 23
Photograph, black and white
102. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated
Tree stump inscribed “CH Johnston speared by blacks June 29 1875”
Photograph, black and white
103. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated
“Boys coming out of school”
Photograph, black and white
104. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated
“Black Lubra cooking dampers”
Photograph, black and white
105. Australian Aborigines – Missions – North Australia, undated
“Mission boys building a house for themselves”
Photograph, black and white
106. Australian Aborigines – Missions – Northern Territory, undated
Photograph, black and white
107. Australian Aborigines – Missions – Point McLeay Mission, South Australia, 1934 / Gordon J. Doherty
Photograph, black and white
108. Australian Aborigines – Missions – Roper River Mission? (probably), undated
“Identified by reader as probably Roper River Mission or possibly Forrest River Mission” – verso
Photograph, black and white

Australian Aborigines – Mortuary customs
109. Australian Aborigines – Mortuary customs, undated
Photograph, sepia toned

Box contents arranged in alphabetical order subject or location.

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 holder:: This collection has multiple rights owners
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Listing transcribed from the headings used in the Self Indexing File (commonly known as the Small Pictures File) established in 1945. All users of the catalogue should also be aware that certain words, terms or descriptions may be culturally sensitive and may be considered inappropriate today, but may have reflected the author's/creator's attitude or that of the period in which they were written.