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825380
  • Title
    Series 1: Photographic prints of New South Wales and South Australia including wartime scenes; army training camps; university students; ships; tours and holidays, ca. 1910-1931 / chiefly photographed by Leonard Sothern Beckett
  • Call number
    PXB 459
  • Level of description
    series
  • Date

    ca. 1910-1931
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    825380
  • Physical Description
    1,422 photographic prints (5 boxes) - 7.2 x 4.8 cm or smaller - gelatin silver
  • Scope and Content
    BOX 1 (467 photographs in 26 envelopes)
    1. Crowd in George St. watching the Joseph Hammond flight over the city, 1911
    2. Motoring trip – Yamba area : Mrs A.H. Gilligan’s Wartime Cafe, Royal Hotel, river scenes
    3. A3A first outing
    4. The Aurora sailing ship in Sydney Harbour, British fleet, street parade
    5. American fleet 1925
    6. Sydney University, Coogee, boating and racecourse scenes, ships, trains
    7. Manning River and crossing
    8. Motoring trip, flooded road, bogged cars
    9. Unveiling of memorial, possibly to Henry Lawson
    10-12. Motoring trip, camping, farms, shearing shed, boat cruise and picnics
    13-19. Cycle tour Tasmania 1916, Collaroy camping trip 1917, Kangaroo Valley 1921, Mackeral Beach 1921, Tuggerah lakes 1923, Lilian Fels 1924
    20-24. Garie Beach 1930, Woy Woy 1931, Koscuisko, Muswellbrook, Richmond
    25. Adelaide Railway Station, Largs Bay Pier, Port Adelaide, Glenelg Pier, Scott Hotel, Torrens River, unidentified people
    26. Inter-varsity shooting match

    BOX 2 (288 photographs in 21 envelopes)
    1-4. Army training camp at Liverpool, 1914
    5-9. Army training camp at La Perouse, 1913
    10. Army camp, possibly Adelaide
    11. Street parades including victory parades
    12. Mortlake gas works, midnight shift
    13. Manly beach ca. 1910, Sydney University students, Customs House, construction of Public Instruction Offices, city buildings
    14. Sydney University students parade and floats
    15. Sydney University students, display cases, buildings
    16. S.C.E.G.S. sport – tennis, athletics
    17. Wartime scenes, Australia Day fair, Recruiting Campaign Exhibition Building, street parades, bomb shelters
    18. Warships and training ship Sobraon, Circular Quay
    19. City buildings including St. Marys Cathedral, Mosman Spit, departure of ocean liner, ‘Blind Billy’, unidentified people
    20. Yachts
    21. Harbourside factory, picnic group, waterfall, unidentified house

    BOX 3 (436 photographs in 16 envelopes)
    1. Travel photographs and postcards from an ocean cruise: Mt. Eden, Auckland, unidentified racecourse
    2-3. Fiji
    4. Honolulu
    5-8. San Francisco, Tahiti, Boston
    9-13. Rochester, Mayo Clinic, Mayo experimental farm, Washington, Baltimore, New York
    14-16. Chicago, Niagara Falls, Canada, Rockies

    BOX 4 (180 photographs in 11 envelopes)
    1. Postcards of New York
    2. Postcards of San Francisco
    3. Postcards of Auckland
    4. Postcards of Lake Louise
    5. Boat cruise deck games, Vancouver
    6. Melbourne Aquarium, unidentified river and mountain scenes, towns, railways
    7. Military parades
    8-11. Cars, motorbikes, unidentified people, dentists, nurses, athletes, buildings, graveyards

    BOX 5 (51 photographs in 10 envelopes)
    1. House party, probably Thirroul or Stanwell, pre-1914
    2. Walking tour 1914
    3. Camping and beach holiday
    4. Katoomba 1910
    5. Walking tour 1914 Xmas vacation
    6. Kanimbla Valley, Blue Mts., Mitchells – Manly, unidentified people
    7. Boating scene
    8. Rock with sign ‘Windonia Camp 1910-1911’, Blue Mountains, March 1910
    9. Dental students and rooms, outdoors service for the death of King Edward VII, May 1910
    10. Leura, Austinmer, unidentified people
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