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Fryer Library Photograph Collection

  • UQFL477
  • Collection
  • ca. 1860-ca. 1980

Approximately 900 photographs, mostly black and white, some sepia. Photographs mostly relating to Queensland people and places, but including interstate and overseas photographs. Includes photographs of Australian authors, the 1893 Brisbane floods, and Mornington Island (Queensland). There are also a number of photographs of Papua New Guinea which were originally in the Beazley collection (UQFL271). Other photographs of Queensland people and places can be found in UQFL479.

Fryer Memorial Library

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.

Photograph album of Herbert Basedow

  • F3478
  • Item
  • 1881-19--

Eighty-four sepia and black and white photographs (various sizes) mounted on board. Photographs have no captions. Album contains photographic records of Basedow's childhood, his college days, his family and colleagues, and his participation in the Government North West Expedition in 1903. Includes 4 loose photographs of Melanesian women and men. Inscribed on p.1 in pencil: "Basedow."

Basedow, Herbert, 1881-1933

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

Album of Charles Kerry photographs

  • F3466
  • Item
  • 1875?-1930?

Album of 52 albumen prints, (20 x 15cm) mounted on board. Written on the images in white capital letters are captions, a photographic number and the name of the photographic studio 'Kerry, Photo, Sydney'. Handwritten on the mounting boards are pencil captions, often with less information than the captions on the images and the photographic number supplied by Kerry crossed out and alternative numbering provided. The album itself has been bound and has a handwritten spine title stuck to it "Australian Aboriginal ceremonies". It looks to have been added to the album at a later date, thus not the original title of the album.

The images are of Australian Aboriginal people in what appears to be mostly staged poses for Australian Aboriginal ceremonies, corroborees, dance, tracking, fights as well as photographs of various individuals. Some of the photographs have painted backdrops. Some of the people in the photographs were members of "Meston's Wild Australia" (also know as Archibald Meston's "Wild Australia Show"). There are some photographs that were most likely taken in Sydney in December 1892 by Charles Kerry. This is based on the beach setting and the backdrops being identical to those photographs for Archibald Meston's "Wild Australia Show".

Listed below are the contents of the album. The number corresponds to the page number in the album; the tile is what appears on the image itself; and in brackets is the Kerry Studio photograph number and the alternative number if provided. Information in square brackets is provided by the processing archivist:

  1. Aboriginal ceremony. Death of the deity (Kerry, Photograph number 2804 / 136). --
  2. Leaving the bora ceremony (Kerry, Photograph number 2616). --
  3. Crossing the mystic figures (Kerry, Photograph number 2614 / 137). --
  4. Approaching the kings ground (Kerry, Photograph number 2615 / 138). --
  5. Aboriginal ceremony "The sick warrior" (Kerry, Photograph number 2598 / 139). --
  6. Aboriginal ceremony "Lying in wait" (Kerry, Photograph number 2608 / 140). --
  7. Aboriginal ceremony "Death of the wild boar" (Kerry, Photograph number 2603 / 141). --
  8. Aboriginal ceremony "Arrival of the king" (Kerry, Photograph number 2605 / 142). --
  9. Aboriginal bora. "Waiting the decision of the king" (Kerry, Photograph number 2617 / 143). --
  10. Aboriginal ceremony. "A duel to the death" (Kerry, Photograph number 2610 / 144). --
  11. Aborigines worshiping figure of the deity (Kerry, Photograph number 2597 / 145). --
  12. Arrival of the novices [unable to decipher writing on photograph] (Kerry, Photograph number 2611 / 146). --
  13. Aboriginal ceremony "Warriors in ambush" (Kerry, Photograph number 2600). --
  14. Aboriginal ceremony "Opening the Bora" (Kerry, Photograph number 2609 / 147). --
  15. Aboriginal ceremony, "Spearing the wild bull" (Kerry, Photograph number 2599 / 148). --
  16. Aboriginal corroboree "A battle" (Kerry, Photograph number 2586 / 149). --
  17. Aboriginal ceremony "Following the footsteps of the deity" (Kerry, Photograph number 2606 / 150). --
  18. Waiting for instructions ([Kerry, Photograph number] 2612 / 151). --
  19. Aboriginals "Corroboree" (Kerry, Photograph number 2584). --
  20. Aboriginal ceremony, "The Bora tree" (Kerry, Photograph number 2607 / 152). --
  21. Aboriginal ceremony, "Spearing the Alligator" (Kerry, Photograph number 2601/ 153). --
  22. Aboriginal ceremony, "Gathering wild bird eggs" (Kerry, Photograph number 2602 / 154). --
  23. Aboriginals "Corroboree" (Kerry, Photograph number 2585 / 155). --
  24. Aboriginal corroboree "Healing the sick warrior" (Kerry, Photograph number 2588 / 156). --
  25. [Writing indecipherable] "Drafting sheep" (Kerry, Photograph number 2587 / 157). --
  26. Aboriginals tracking ([Kerry, Photograph number] 2583 / 158). --
  27. Corroboree Austn Aborigines [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1360 / 159). --
  28. "Wermugga Dance" Austn Aboriginals [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1361 / 160). --
  29. Aboriginals & Black Trackers (Kerry, Photograph number 1388 / 161). --
  30. Group fighting men [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1391 / 162). --
  31. Bora Corroboree (Kerry, Photograph number 1390). --
  32. Aboriginal Corroboree (Kerry, Photograph number 1367). --
  33. Fish Corroboree (Kerry, Photograph number 1393 / 163). --
  34. Aboriginals & Black Trackers (Kerry, Photograph number 1378 / 164). --
  35. Wermugga Corroboree (Kerry, Photograph number 1392 / 165). --
  36. Aboriginals & Black Tracker (Kerry, Photograph number 1389 / 166). --
  37. [Writing indecipherable on photograph] Group of Northern Territory natives (Kerry, Photograph number 1368). --
  38. An Aboriginal fight (Kerry, Photograph number 2553). --
  39. Aboriginals, upper Macleay River (Kerry, Photograph number 2162 / 167). --
  40. Aboriginals, upper Macleay River (Kerry, Photograph number 2160). --
  41. Aboriginals, upper Macleay River (Kerry, Photograph number 2161). --
  42. Darling R. natives (Kerry, Photograph number 141). --
  43. Aboriginal climbing tree (Kerry, Photograph number 2126 / 168). --
  44. Aboriginal spearing fish (Kerry, Photograph number 2125 / 169). --
  45. Native climbing with vine (Kerry, Photograph number 535). --
  46. "Wharangoo". Aboriginal, Tenterfield District [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1989 / 170). --
  47. "Borree", Aboriginal Chief, Jervis Bay (Kerry, Photograph number 2013). --
  48. "Yenohan". Girl, Tumut Tribe, N.S.W. (Kerry, Photograph number 1899 / 171). --
  49. Aboriginal women [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1914 / 172). --
  50. Aboriginal girl, Brungle [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1913 / 173). --
  51. Aboriginal warrior, Bellinger River (Kerry, Photograph number 2014). --
  52. Aboriginal with Derri Head dress (Kerry, Photograph number 1371 / 174).

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that photographs may contain images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms and descriptions. The descendants' request was that the subjects of the photos be recognised as Wailwan. None of the descendants expressed any desire to censor or withdraw the photos from general viewing. In particular, women should be cautious when viewing the image as it includes some aspects of traditional Men's Business.

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

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

Album of Australian naval ships and crew at home and overseas

  • F3465
  • Item
  • 1916-1919

Album, mass produced with 'Kodak' on the cover. Contains eighteen real photo postcards, "Kodak Austral" series (13 x 8cm) mounted in between board. Photographic reproduction with caption inscribed at foot of photographs. Inscribed on inside cover: To Mother wishing you a Merry Xmas and very Happy New Year with best of wishes and love, from your loving son, Jack, 1920. Inscribed on back inside cover: Jack's official number 12.400.

Souvenir of Isis Downs Blackall 1914.

  • F3476
  • Item
  • 1914?

An album of 39 black and white photographs (8 x 14 cm and smaller) mounted on commercially produced grey boards; the brown board for the front cover has a design with a sail boat ; boards have three holes down the side, of which the top and bottom holes have been tied together with two pieces of string. Inscription inside front cover: "With much love and best wishes to Mr & Mrs 1 1/4 in memory of a very happy & cheery winter at Isis Downs from Aileen." All photographs are undated. Title for the album is taken from the caption above the first photograph the first page. Most photographs have handwritten captions.

Titles for photographs in square brackets supplied by processing archivist and additional/explanatory details are supplied for supplied captions in square brackets:
[1.] The house [Isis Downs Homestead];
[2.] The houseparty [Rupert Turner Havelock Clarke is in the back row, second from the right];
[3.] The drawing room furniture arrives;
[4.] Unloading at the store;
[5.] Mr 1 1/4 [Robert S. Whiting] & The Shed [Isis Downs Woolshed];
[6.] The trolley into the wool room;
[7.] Mr Fowler & The Bosses;
[8.] "Oh never see the loikes, so oi did";
[9.] The picnic at Bullock Creek;
[10.] Bullock Creek Backwater;
[11.] The huts;
[Photograph missing, caption: In the yards];
[12.] [Rupert Turner Havelock Clarke];
[13.] [Sheep yards];
[Two spaces for photographs, no captions]
[14.] Mr 1 1/4 [Robert S. Whiting] duck hunting on "Hope Tank";
[15.] "Hope tank";
[16.] Oranges at Avington";
[17.] The "outer Barcoo";
[18.] The new hoist;
[19.] Mr 1 1/4 & Sir Rupert;
[20.] Wool on the way;
[21.] [Two horse drawn carriages with wool bales, part of a shed on the left];
[22.] The Blackall coach;
[23.] The butcher's shop;
[24.] Sir Rupert flagging emus; and;
[25.] An emu family;
[26.] Mr Fraser meets his doom;
[27.] "Bloodstained Bertie", the Barcoo Bushranger;
[28.] The Tall & the short of it at Bullock Creek Bore;
[29.] Themselves;
[30.] Young Wace on Tango;
[31.] doing a "Tango Tangle";
[32.] Wace on the Grey mare;
[33.] [Tock Dean & Co-Trapers (I don't think)? Caption indecipherable];
[34.] The teamster's kitchen;
[Space for one photograph, no captions]
[35.] [Horse drawn carriages with wool bales in front of sheds];
[36.] [Wool bales on carriage and beside entrance to shed, sheds in foreground and background];
[37.] Four men in wool shed, stacked with bales;
[38.] Inside a woolshed with machinery and a man standing near a door;
[Three spaces for photographs, no captions]
[39.] [Woman and man between sundial and thatched roof open construction dwelling];
[Two spaces for photographs, no captions]

Flanking the Barcoo River at Isisford in the heart of Queensland's best central-west grazing country, Isis Downs is one of Australia's largest pastoral holdings. In its 1912 heyday under the ownership of Sir Rupert Clarke and Richard Whiting, Isis Downs ran 230,000 sheep and employed up to 150 staff during shearing, its area totalling more than 2,430 sq km. The Isis Downs shearing shed is the largest shearing shed in Australia. It consists of 52 shearing stands and is equipped with a rectangular sheep yard complex which, in its day, could hold 30,000 sheep at full capacity. It is a huge semi-circular shed which was fabricated in England, shipped to Australia and erected on site in July 1914 by the same company that built the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Only two sheds of this type and style were ever manufactured, with the other one being situated in Argentina.

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