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839863
  • Title
    Lantern slides of Darwin and nearby area, 1869-1914 / Paul Foelsche
  • Creator
  • Call number
    SLIDES 30
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1856-1914
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    839863
  • Physical Description
    1 box (72 slides) - 3 x 3 in. each - lantern
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Paul Foelsche, Darwin's first police chief, took about 700 wet plate photographs of Darwin between 1869 and his death in 1914. Reference: Dunstan, R., "Camera-eye on early Darwin", Australian Women's Weekly, 8 October 1969
  • Collection history
    This collection of 72 slides belonged to the donor's husband. They formerly belonged to Samuel James Mitchell, Acting Administrator, Northern Territory, 1911-1912. He gave them to Rev. R. Fulford in Adelaide and he subsequently gave them to Mrs Warren's husband. -- information from donor on ML file, February 1970
  • Scope and Content
    Included in the collection are views of Port Essington, Katherine, Adelaide and Roper rivers, and slides of Australian Aborigines in and around Darwin
  • Finding Aids
    Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 254 -
  • Description source

    Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
  • General note

    Contents list by P. Foelsche, the donor, and Mitchell Library staff, together with notes supplied by the donor and a cutting from the Australian Women's Weekly referring to the Foelsche photographs are filed at PXn 254.

    "With this I am posting the portion of "Women's Weekly" on which is printed the particulars of the Foelsche photographs from which the lantern slides of Darwin were made." -- letter from donor on ML file, 7 March 1972
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