Edward William Knox family photographs

PXA 7700

fonds

1902-1944

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings

9676252

9 albums (1238 photographic prints) - 38 x 28 and smaller
32 photographic prints - 14 x 9 cm and smaller
1 sketch - pen and ink - 32 x 26 cm

Edward William Knox was born on 1 April 1847 in Sydney, one of four sons of Sir Edward Knox (1819-1901) who founded the Colonial Sugar Refining Company in 1855. Edward William joined the company in 1864, becoming general manager in 1880 and managing director in 1920. He and family travelled extensively to Europe and the Pacific, observing milling methods which he later employed at C.S.R.C. On 30 January 1878, he married Edith Willis (1855-1942) and, from 1883, he lived in Rona, a house he had built in Bellevue Hill. He was a sailing enthusiast and a collector of paintings and objets d'art. In February 1933, he resigned from C.S.R.C. and died on four months later on 26 June.

Source:
Australian Dictionary of Biography. "Edward William Knox". Accessed 14 November 2023. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/knox-edward-william-6990

By descent from Edward Knox to great, great granddaughter Barbara Mulligan.

BOX 1
Black album annotated on inside cover "Lau [illegible] K [illegible] August 1912". Contains 302 photographs of skiing at Mount Kosciuszko in 1912 and 1913, Tasmania (Hobart, Launceston, New Norfolk and Port Arthur) in 1913, and candid family photographs from 1912 and 1913.

Red album embossed on cover "M.K." and inscribed on inside cover "With love for the 21st birthday (1902). Better late than never! Yrs, S.P.F. Osho[illegible]". Contains 230 photographs of New Zealand (Wellington, Queenstown, Queen Charlotte Sound, Buller River and Gorge, Mount Rolleston, Long Sound) from December 1901 to January 1902, and family members at and the estates of Rona, Foxlow, Bowylie and Currandooley between January and June 1902. 17 newspaper clippings relating to the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York to Australia in 1927 including two letterheads, one dated 7 April, for the HMS Renown.

BOX 2
Green Kodak album containing 104 photographs of family members and images of New Zealand, Italy (Rome, Palermo, Venice, Florence), Constantinople, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Lubeek, Oxford and the Nile River in Egypt in the early 1900s.

Dark green album containing 22 photographs of soldiers in Malta, Jerusalem, Egypt in 1941-1943 and 4 of family members. 20 loose photographs of soldiers, scenery and the Macleod Stampede in Canada (British Columbia and Calgary, Alberta) and 2 of family in New South Wales.

Brown album annotated on cover "S.J.K. Adams". Contains 34 photographs of family members, a parade outside the Sydney Hospital on Macquarie Street, a Tudor house in Moss Vale and china cabinets in a house on New South Road in approximately 1920s.

BOX 3
Brown album annotated on cover "H.C. Adams ; W.W.I. et. al." Contains x photographs and sketches of H.C. Adams, family members and other portraits; ships and naval crew (H.M.S. Powerful; H.M.S. Prometheus); nurses, staff and buildings of various hospitals (Royal Naval Hospital, Gosport; Australian Hospital, Harefield); World War 1 soldiers and military camps, aircraft and bombing; Burnsville, Canada; indigenous Australians of the Lower Russell River region and Goldsborough Valley, Queensland. Some photographs dated between 1906 and 1918.

Brown album annotated on cover "M.K." and inscribed on inside cover: "A souvenir of the cruise of the Vechis in the Mediterranean Oct. Nov. 1904." Contains 96 photographs of Italy (including Naples and Sicily (Catania)) Greece (including Crete, Athens and Eleusis (Elefsina)), Algiers, Malta, France (Marseille) and Norway. 9 loose photographs of Syria (Damascus) and Lebanon (Baalbek).

BOX 4
Burgundy album embossed on cover "M.K." and "1904". Contains 224 photographs of France (Paris and Versailles), Italy (Pompeii, Capri, Sicily (Taormina), Venice, Florence, Rome), Constantinople, Greece (Athens and Candia (Crete)), Algiers, Egypt (Luxor, Karnak, Assuan, Philae, Cairo) and passage on the RMS Mongolia from October 1904 to January 1905. 1 loose photograph of women and girls posed outside an unidentified house.

Red album embossed on cover "M.K." and "1906". Contains 84 photographs of New Zealand (Preservation Inlet, Milford Sound and others, Mitre Peak, Sutherland Track, Rotorua) from the S.S. Waikare and the Regatta, January 1902 and January to February 1906.

1 double-sided sketch, one side illustrating C.P.L. Simpson and the other with an accompanying note "1917; World War 1, cartoon. H.C.A. then in 16 Army in England is the left hand figure, looks with a 'poka face' at his 'Royal Flush' (sic)".

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

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are advised that this collection includes images and names of people who are deceased. Some captions in the photograph album 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.

Sketch signed on both sides "Rick Elmes 1917".