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- 1930-1932 (Creation)
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1 album ; 376 b&w illustrations ; 32 x 42 cm.
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Joshua Peter Ferguson Bell was the the second child of Joshua Thomas (Joey) Bell and Catherine Jane Bell (nee Ferguson). He was a prisoner of war in World War Two.
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This album was created by Joshua Peter Ferguson Bell. Photographs are arranged chronologically, mostly by location, and most have captions written beneath them. The album includes Bell's trip to Mt Barney and Spicer's Gap; and the trip to England in 1930 with his mother, Catherine Bell, on the RMS Mooltan and Europe, India (on the RMS Mooltan), Kenya, Coochin (near Boonah) and Westland (which was managed by his uncle Colin Bell).
Photographs include:
'Spicer's Gap, April 1930', 4 photographs with captions. --
'Upper Logan and Cronan's Creek - Mount Barney - Easter 1930', 24 photographs with captions. --
'Australia to England, P&O, R.M.S. Mooltan, May-June 1930', 25 photographs with captions (includes incomplete construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge) --
'The Sunbeam, 1930', 4 photographs. --
'Snowdonia, September 1930', 6 photographs with captions. --
'English Lake District and Scotland, September 1930', 11 photographs with captions. --
'Cotswold Hills, Bibury, September 1930', 7 photographs, some with captions. --
'Brighton - October 1930, Mrs Stuart, Beth & J.P.F.B.', 11 photographs. --
'Fontainbleau - October 1930, Mr. & Mrs. Stuart, Beth, & the Sunbeam', 6 photographs. --
'Fontainbleau', 8 photographs, some with captions. --
Tilbury, January, 1931', 5 photographs with captions. --
'Dover - October 1930', 3 photographs, 1 missing, some with captions. --
'The Continent, October - December 1930', 5 photographs with captions. --
'Prague', 4 photographs with captions. --
'Austria', 4 photographs with captions. --
'Venice - November 1930', 5 photographs with captions. --
'Switzerland - November 1930', 10 photographs with captions. --
'South of France - December 1930', 5 photographs with captions. --
'Spain - December 1930', 4 photographs with captions. --
[September 1930 to March 1931], 6 photographs with captions. --
'Jimbour House, Darling Downs, Queensland', 6 photographs, some with captions. --
Marseilles to Bombay, P&O Mooltan, February, 1931', 6 photographs with captions. --
'Mooltan', 12 photographs with captions. --
'Swimming pool - Aden', 2 photographs with captions. --
'India, March 1931', 7photographs with captions, inserted is a notice questing passengers to have a Vaccination Certificate, 2 May 1930. --
'Mombasa, March 1931', 8 photographs with captions. --
'Kenya Colony - March 1931', 10 photographs with captions. --
'Kingatori Estate, Kiambu, April 1931', 6 photographs with captions. --
"Claude" - May 1931', 4 photographs with captions. --
'September 1931', 11 photographs, some with captions. --
'Kiambu Road Repairs - Jan. 1932', 2 photographs with captions. --
'Kingatori Estate, Kiambu, January 1932', 13 photographs with captions. --
'Cricket in Kenya, 1931-32', 8 photographs with captions. --
'Victoria Nyanza, Feb. 1932', 16 photographs with captions; inserted after these is a passengers baggage label for J.P.F.Bell on teh SS Mooltan. --
'Trip Home, March-June 1932', 47 photographs with captions. --
'Coochin - June 1932', 19 photographs with captions. --
[Untitled page], 6 photographs photographs with captions. --
'Westland - August 1932', 17 photographs with captions. --
'September 1932', 19 photographs with captions.
This is a large commercially produced photograph album using a punch-and-bind system in which two metal posts are inserted through punched holes near the binding edge. There are 32 brown card pages in this album. The photographs have been adhered overall to the pages.
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Pre-1955 photographs: copyright expired.
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- English
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Parcel 1 Item 4
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Created, Linda Justo, 12-Aug-2021.