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Photograph album of views of "Witton Manor" and the Indooroopilly area

  • F3475
  • Item
  • ca. 1880-ca. 1907

Album (23 x 28 cm) of sepia photographs (15 x 21 cm and smaller) mounted on board. Indooroopilly was first settled by Europeans in 1860 when H. C. Rawnsley purchased land south of Witton Creek. Rawnsley built the first house in the area, Witton Manor, in 1861, on the site of the present Nudgee Junior College. It was later owned by Andrew Bogle. The holding covered an area of over 70 acres with extensive river frontages. Witton Manor was later owned by Herbert Brealey Hemming, who purchased the property "Tighnabruaich" in 1904. He moved Witton Manor to the grounds of "Tighnabruaich" from its original site further upstream at Indooroopilly between 1916 and 1919, and renamed it Witton House. Hemming resided at Witton House from c1919 until c1938.

Album bound in red leather and in fragile condition. Photographs are not captioned; inscribed inside front cover "Andrew Bogle, owner of Witton Manor, circa 1880-circa 1907".

Bogle, Andrew

Visit to Queensland of H.R.H. Duke of Gloucester, December 1934

  • F3474
  • Item
  • 1934

Album of 120 black and white photographs aranged chronologically.
Photographs show the Duke of Gloucester conducting official duties during his visit to Queensland in 1934. Places featured include: Wallangarra, Stanthorpe, Warwick, Clifton, Toowoomba, Gatton (including Agricultural College), Laidley, Rosewood, Ipswich, central Brisbane, Cleveland, Wynnum, R.N.A. Exhibition Grounds, University of Queensland, Bowen Park (Brisbane), Rosemount Repatriation Hospital, Archerfield Aerodrome, Dalgety's Wharf, and H.M.A.S. Australia on the Brisbane River. Photographs of Archerfield Aerodrome show the Duke dispatching the first airmail of the Australia-Great Britain Service.
Photographs are (10 x 14.5 cm and larger) mounted on boards with handwritten captions. Album bound in red leather. Cover title.

Governors of Tasmania

  • F3473
  • Item
  • c189-

Album of 20 photographs (14 x 11 cm) mounted between boards with handwritten captions. Includes photographs of the first 13 Tasmanian governors, together with governors from New South Wales and South Australia.

Contents:
Colonel David Collins
Colonel William Sorrell
Colonel George Arthur
Sir John Franklin
Sir John Eardley Wilmot
Sir William Thomas Denison
Sir Henry Fox Young
Colonel Thomas Gore Browne
Charles du Cane
Frederick Aloysius Weld
Sir John Henry Lefroy
Major Sir George C. Strahan
Sir Robert G. C. Hamilton
Lord Loftus, Governor of NSW
Sir W. F. D. Jervois, Governor of South Australia
Earl of Jersey, (V.A.G.C. Villiers), Governor of NSW
Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of NSW.
Right Hon. C. R. Carrington, Governor of NSW.
Earl of Kintore, Governor of South Australia
Richard Rossiter, New Caledonia.

Beattie, J. W (John Watt)

Howie family album

  • F3472
  • Item
  • 1919

Album of 92 sepia photographs mounted between boards, and 4 black and white loose photographs (various sizes).
Photographs include family and family outings to Mount Lofty in South Australia, Botanical Gardens in Adelaide, Glenelg Beach in South Australia, and Mount Tamborine, Queensland. One photograph of a woman is accompanied by an envelope with the name Miss Morton. Some photographs have handwritten captions. Circa 1919.

Howie family

Photograph album of reproductions of artworks from various European galleries and museums, and photographs of Europe, New York and Queensland

  • F3470
  • Item
  • c1900

Album of 83 sepia and coloured photographs of European scenery and artworks (mostly France), views of the city of New York, and views of North Queensland, including the Barron Falls. Some photographs have printed captions, and name of photographic studios. Photographs are various sizes. Photographic studios include Francis Ellis & W. Hayward London, Detroit Photographic Co., and G. Brogi.

Mayne, James O'Neil, 1861-1939

Photograph album of photographic views of South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales, together with official invitations to celebrations of the opening of the first Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia

  • F3469
  • Item
  • [190-]?

Album of sepia photographs, accompanied by invitations to Alderman and Mrs C. Wells to attend celebrations marking the opening of the first Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1901; pamphlets concerning the University of Adelaide Union and medical school and the Pioneers' Association of South Australia; some woodcut prints (black and white); reprints; and black and white photographs of two men, one C. Wells and the other unidentified.

Wells, C.

Views of Australia, New Zealand, Scotland and U.S.A.

  • F3468
  • Item
  • ca.1880

Album of 97 albumen prints of Australia, New Zealand, Scotland and United States of America, (19.5 x 14.5cm) mounted on board. Many photographs have printed and numbered captions, and initials F.A.C. Some have additional pencilled captions on boards. On cover: Scraps. One photograph has initials J.V which is attributed to James Valentine (1815-1879)

Coxhead, F. A (Frank Arnold), 1851-1919

Samoa and Samoans

  • F3467
  • Item
  • [18--]? - [19--]?

Album of 53 sepia photographs of Samoan people and scenery, (20 x 15cm) mounted on board. Most photographs are captioned, numbered and annotated with imprint of Kerry Photo Sydney. Some have additional pencilled numbering on boards.

Kerry, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1858-1928

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