• Title
  Valmond Kinley photographs of New South Wales
• Creator
  Valmond Kinley
• Call number
  ON 679
  PXB 1751
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1930s-1940s
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  9664520
• Physical Description
  Approximately 600 negatives (38 film rolls) - black and white - film width 35 mm
  117 photographic prints - gelatin silver, black and white - 4 cm x 3 cm each
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Valmond W. Kinley was the advertising manager in Australia for the National Cash Register Co. of Australasia Ltd. during the 1930s. He was a keen amateur photographer and later ran a business in Katoomba in the Blue Moutains.
• Collection history
  Purchaed by donor from unknown location, ca. 1996
• Scope and Content
  ON 679
  38 rolls of AGFA Isopan F 35 mm film stored in original gridded containers (2 boxes) include images of: 1938 Australian Sesquicentenary Celebrations in Sydney; store-front displays; passenger ship departures; cash registers in shop settings; the Texaco Service Station on corner of Parramatta and Great North Road; staff and functions of the National Cash Register Company; people operating cash registers; AJ Benjamin's store in Chatswood; scenes from central Sydney; building exteriors, aircraft and aviation; rural scenes; and, portraits of men and women, including images from a wedding:
  Container 1:
  1. Man operating a cash register
  2. People operating cash registers
  3. Portraits of women
  4. Texaco Service Station
  5. Retail shop interior
  6. Service station
  7. People seated at large table possibly members of the National Cash Register Company
  8. Portraits of women
  9. Departures of passengers on a ship
  10. Portraits of men and women, perhaps at a wedding
  11. Retail store window displays
  12. Service station
  13. Retail store window displays
  14. Portraits of men and women in an indoor setting
  15. Portraits and ship images
  16. Person operating a cash register
  17. People operating cash registers
  18. Retail shop interiors
  19. Shop interiors and building exteriors
  20. Portraits
  21. Building exteriors
  
  Container 2:
  22. Martin Place Sydney
  23. Rural scenes New South Wales
  24. Portraits of women
  25. Parade Sesquicentenary Celebrations in Sydney
  26. Retail shop interior
  27. Portraits of people in outdoor settings
  28. Sesquicentenary Celebrations in Sydney
  29. Aircraft and aviation
  30. Portraits of women in outdoor settings
  31. Wedding photos
  32. Portraits of people in indoor settings
  33. Portrait of young girl with kangaroo in outdoor setting
  34. Military parade
  35. Cash registers
  36. Portraits of a woman
  37. Retail store window displays
  38. Rural scenes New South Wales
  
  PXB 1751
  117 photographic prints include: portraits of men and women; views of Sydney; staff of the National Cash Register Company; and passenger ship departures.
• System of arrangement
  Photoprints have been arranged in numerical order where possible based on pencil marks on back of prints.
• Access Conditions
  
  This material is held in cold storage and requires 3 working days notice to retrieve. Please submit your request through Ask a Librarian
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Rights and Restrictions Information:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Numbered list of film roll titles supplied by donor. Descriptions on a grid inside the box lids have also been noted, however the film rolls in place may not correspond to the description.
• General note
  
  Entire collection is housed in one box at ON 679.
• Subject
  Cash registers--New South Wales.
  Stores, Retail--New South Wales.
  Portrait photography--New South Wales--20th century.
  National Cash Register Co.
  
• Place
  A.J. Benjamin (479-495 Victoria Avenue, Chatswood, N.S.W.)
  Sydney (N.S.W.)--Photographs.
  Sydney (N.S.W.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Photographs.
  New South Wales--Photographs.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Shot : 400 photographs, 200 photographers, 3 centuries - State Library of New South Wales (October 2023 - October 2024)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21124263

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