Australian pastures / Hall & Co.

PXA 7694

fonds

1930

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9664405

1 album (51 photographic prints), and 1 photographic print - silver gelatin - 30 x 39 cm

Sir Otto Niemeyer was a British banker and civil servant who served as a director of the Bank for International Settlements (1931–65) and the Bank of England (1938–52). He is best known for his work overseas in the early 1930s where, as a representative of the Bank of England, he assessed the financial and economic situations of a number of countries. The first of these visits was to Australia in 1930 at the request of the Australian Government and supported by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Niemeyer's visit was the centre of public and political discussion at the time and had a significant impact on the country’s economic and political landscape.

The album presents an idealised portrayal of rural life in New South Wales. The association with Sir Otto Niemeyer suggests that the orientation of these photographs was to a non-Australian audience.

References:
Library correspondence file
Reserve Bank of Australia, Research Guide, https://unreserved.rba.gov.au/nodes/view/44796 (accessed 6 November 2023)

Photograph of (L-R): James Jelley (Chief Secretary of South Australia), Lionel Hill (Premier of South Australia), Sir Otto Niemeyer, and Theodore Gregory (Professor of Banking at the University of London). Taken during Niemeyer's visit to South Australia, August 1930. Photographer unknown. 25 x 31 cm.

Album presented to Sir Otto Niemeyer by The Stockowners' Association of New South Wales, November 1930:
1. The summer breezes come and go ... [Castlereagh River]
2. The Blue Lake, Kosciusko
3. Cow country
4. A travelling mob, crossing the billabong at Wanganella
5. A station homestead, N.S.W.
6. Cattle on hill country
7. On the Macintyre River
8. Maize on the Tumut Flats
9. Sires of the Golden Fleece
10. Cattle pastures, N.S.W.
11. Teamsters camps at foot of "The 10 Mile Hill"
12. Sheep Country
13. Oaten hay harvest
14. Iron Bark country
15. A station homestead, N.S.W.
16. The wool harvest
17. Sheep pasture, a valley in the ranges
18. Lucerne hay
19. The wool team
20. An old bush shanty
21. New South Wales sugar cane lands
22. A farmers team
23. A bush ferry
24. Coastal brush, N.S.W.
25. Cattle country - Queensland
26. Ready for the axe, Blackbutt N.S.W.
27. An old man gum
28. Ripening sunbeams, harvesting wheat
29. Dairy herd, Gloucester River, "The Buckets"
30. Overlanders from the Gulf at Coopers Creek, [Queensland]
31. Dairy herd, N.S.W.
32. A timber team, N.S.W. coast
33. Bush engineering
34. Sheep country
35. Matrons of the stud
36. Tenapera, Ana-Branch of Coopers Creek, [Queensland]
37. To every man the home he wills ...
38. A timber getter's camp, Dorrigo, N.S.W.
39. New South Wales coastal ranges
40. Cattle country, a breeding herd
41. The stark, white ringbarked forests ...
42. And far away one dimly sees ...
43. A dairy herd, N.S.W.
44. Coastal brush, N.S.W.
45. Their country, Napper Merrie Station, Coopers Creek, [Queensland]
46. Mustering the stragglers
47. The stockman
48. The drover
49. Aliens from the "Back of Beyond"
50. While the billy boils
51. Sydney [Harbour and Botanical Gardens]

Access via appointment - Applies to album due to fragile condition.

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

Title from album cover. Photograph title captions taken from album. Some of the photographs are also accompanied by short poems.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visitors are kindly advised that this collection includes images of people who have passed. Certain words, terms or descriptions may reflect the author's/creator's attitude or that of the period in which they were written, but are now considered inappropriate in today's context.

First page of album in ink and watercolour: To Sir Otto Niemeyer, G.B.E K.C.B. in appreciation of the service he tendered to Austalia. From The Stockowners' Association of New South Wales. Sydney, Nov. 1st, 1930.

Last page of album in ink: Photos by Hall & Co., 20 Hunter Street, Sydney, Australia.