Herbert Ernest Ross collection of photographs and papers

PXA 7757 MLMSS 12131

fonds

1910-1960

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records, Design Drawings

9676405

5 albums (310 photographic prints) - 36 x 29 cm and smaller
0.16 metres of textual material (1 box)

Herbert Ernest Ross was born on 4 March 1868 in Inverell, New South Wales, and after being educated in Sydney and Edinburgh, he worked in Queensland in mining, engineering and railway construction. In 1902, he began working as an architect and in 1911, he co-founded the architectural practice, Ross & Rowe, with H. Ruskin Rowe. In 1913, he married Doris Anne Howgate (1893-1979), with whom he had a son, Herbert Kenneth (1914-1971), and a daughter, Shirley. He died suddenly in Pyrmont, Sydney, on 12 August 1937.

Sources:
Sydney Morning Herald. 13 August 1937. Accessed 22 March 2024. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17392686

Dictionary of Sydney. "Ross & Rowe". Accessed 22 March 2024.

Collection inherited by donor, grandson of Herbert Ross

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS - BOX 1
"Sunny Memories"
79 photographic prints of family and trips to various locations in New South Wales including Mount Kosciuszko, 1913-1918.

Black album with brown leather ties
91 photographic prints of factory manufacturing equipment designed by Michael Langtree, 1930-1945.

"Photographic Record of Automatic Discharge Equipment in M.V. North Esk"
31 photographic prints of the North Esk wheat transport ship and factory interiors in Hobart, Tasmania, around or after 1958.

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS - BOX 2
"Happy Times"
61 photographic prints of family and trips to various locations in New South Wales, including Picton and the Blue Mountains, around 1914.

Green photo album
48 photographic prints of a family trip to Mount Kosciuszko, 1914.

FOLDER 1
"Ross Estate, Inverell". Business correspondence, memorandums; financial documents; auditors' reports, 1912-1926.

FOLDER 2
"Ross Estate, Inverell". Business correspondence, memorandums; financial documents; auditors' reports, 1912-1926.

FOLDER 3
Business correspondence with Michael Langtree and Kelly & Lewis Ltd.; engineering plans and calculations; blueprints; pamphlets, 1942-1951. Includes photographic prints.

FOLDER 4
Business correspondence with Michael Langtree and Kelly & Lewis Ltd.; engineering plans and calculations; blueprints; pamphlets, predominantly 1954-1955. Includes photographic prints.

Papers retained in original arrangement.

Copyright restrictions may apply:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Date range based on fashion depicted in photographs and dated papers.