414108
- TitleMina Wylie, her family, swimming colleagues and friends - travelling, holidays and swimming competitions, photographed from ca.1883-1930s
- Call numberPXE 1028
- Level of descriptionseries
- Date
ca. 1883-1930s - Type of material
- Reference code414108
- Issue CopyPartly Digitised : Box 1
- Physical Description225 items, predominantly silver gelatin and albumen photoprints (many of which are mounted) but also including printed postcards, newscuttings, cabinet photographs, Parisian panels, cartes-de-visite, printed envelopes and a letter card - Most of the mounts are damaged and brittle - 35 x 36 cm. or smaller
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Wilhelmina (Mina) Wylie, (1891-1984), and Fanny Durack were Australia's first two female Olympic swimming representatives. They competed in the Stockholm Olympics in 1912, where Durack won a gold medal and Wylie a silver. In 1911, 1922 and 1924 Wylie won every Australian and NSW swimming championship - freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke. Wylie grew up in South Coogee, Sydney, where her father Henry Wylie built Wylie's baths in 1907. Henry Wylie was himself a champion long distance and underwater swimmer. Wylie's Baths are the oldest surviving communal sea baths in Australia - Scope and ContentBOX 1
1. Mina Wylie, Coogee, 1913
2. Mina Wylie, Hamburg, 1910
3-5. [Portraits of Mina Wylie]
6. Mina Wylie, 1910
7. Mina Wylie [L], Fanny Durack [C], Vera Thulin [L] [Swedish swimmer]
8. [Swedish diver Willy Thulin, right, with an unidentified female competitor]
9. Fanny Durack, Mina Wylie, Jenny Louise Fletcher (from Leicester UK) at Stockholm, 1912
10. Fanny Durack [L], Mina Wylie [R]
11-14. Individual female swimmers
15. [Mina Wylie (R) and 3 female swimmers]
16. [Start of a girl's swimming race, Mina Wylie with raised hand]
17. [Older women and a girl about to dive into a pool]
18. [7 female swimmers and possibly a female coach or chaperone, Mina Wylie 3rd from right, standing]
19. [3 female swimmers]
20. [Female swimmer]
21. [2 female swimmers]
22. [2 female swimmers]
23. [3 female swimmers]
24. [3 female swimmers]
25. [2 female swimmers plus possibly coach, other women look on]
26. [5 female swimmers plus possibly coach, Mina Wylie 2nd from left]
27. [Group portrait of female swimmers and other women. Mina Wylie 3rd row, centre]
28. [Kenneth] McArthur, who won the marathon race [Stockholm, 1912]
29. [Mina Wylie with 2 other bathers, possibly family, on a rock platform]
30. [Fanny Durack, Mina Wylie, Duke Paoa Kahanamoku and others, probably at Waikiki Beach, Honolulu]
31. Frank K Knox, 1913
32-36. [Individual male swimmers, no.35 is probably Frank Beaurepaire]
37. Ernst Brandsten
38. [Group of male swimmers]
39. [L to R: Harold Hardwick, William Longworth, male swimmer (either Leslie Boardman or NZ Malcolm Champion), Stockholm Olympics, 1912]
40. [Male swimmer on starting block]
41. Frank Beaurepaire, Frank Springfield
42-45. Male cyclists
46-52. Series of 6 pictorial post cards, Miss Annette Kellermann [and envelope]
53-55. [Coogee Beach and Wylie's Baths]
56. [Bronte Baths]
57,59. [Swimming baths]
58. Brisbane Baths, Queensland, Swimming championship carnival. Fanny Durack, Mina Wylie [and others]
60. [Stamped postcard of Stockholm to Mina Wylie], 27/8/12
61-64. [Swimming baths], February 1910
65. [Male swimmers about to race in rock pool, probably Wylie's Baths, as crowds look on]
66-67. [Souvenir envelopes of] Wylie's Surf Bath, Coogee
BOX 2
Portraits of Mina Wylie as a child and adult, alone and with other family members, including Henry Wylie, also single and group portraits of family members, some in military uniform. Also holiday snaps and postcards of Australia and overseas, including many shots of the family on a cruise
BOX 3
Larger individual photos of Mina Wylie, athletes and family
1. Mina Wylie
2. [Group portrait of male athletes]
3. [Rock pool, probably Wylie's Baths. Male swimmers about to race]
4. [Female swimmers about to enter water as other girls look on]
5-14. [Mina Wylie in family portrait groups, mostly female, some with Fanny Durack]
15-16. [Individual family portraits]
BOX 4
1-11. [Large and small family and social group portraits including wedding and military photos]
12. [Steamship with signatures, presumably of crew and passengers, on the surrounding mount]
13. R.M.S. Morea [signatures, presumably of crew and passengers, on the surrounding mount]
14. [Group portrait of passengers and orchestra of] R.M.S. Cathay - Copying ConditionsOut of copyright: Created before 1955
- Description source
Following reader feedback the title of image 56. has been changed from 56. Coogee Beach and Wylie's Baths to 56. Bronte Baths.
AD 26/11/2020 - General note
Forms part of Mina Wylie Papers held at MLMSS 5078
Many of the swimmers and family portraits are unidentified
Reference:
Australia's Olympic Century: all the Games in Pictures. Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 1998
Australians at the Olympics: a definitive history / Gary Lester. Sydney: Lester-Townsend Publishing Pty. Ltd., 1984
A century of Wylie's baths, Coogee: a cultural history / Eileen Slarke. Coogee, NSW: Wylies's Baths Turst Inc., 2001
Digital order no:Album ID : 823832 - Signatures / Inscriptions
Some photos identified, signed or otherwise inscribed on reverse
Many of the studio photos are embossed or printed with the studio/photographer's name and address. Studios represented are from Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Belfast, London and Stockholm
"Geo Hendry, Parisian Studio, Brisbane" -- stamped on reverse of some images - Attributions / conjectures
No.39 idenitified from a photograph belonging to the National Library of Australia (nla.pic-an21171586) - Creator/Author/Artist
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