Belltrees 1901 / John McFadyen

PXA 471

fonds

1901

Graphic Materials, Photographs

846394

1 volume (36 photographic prints, including 2 panoramas) - 26 cm x 31.5 cm - albumen

The album contains photographs of the Belltrees estate in the upper Hunter Valley and documents the events of November 1-4, 1901, including photographs of the annual sports day and local race meeting which celebrated the end of the season's shearing. The Belltrees community including members of the White family, stockmen, and their families and the Belltrees Troop, 1st Australian Horse, farm buildings and wool rooms, residences and the Belltrees Public School and Church, farming activities and livestock.

Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009

Tyrell's Bookshop label inside front cover. The photographs were published in the Sydney Mail in November 1901.

Keyword subjects:
Belltrees Station (Hunter River Region, N.S.W.)
Belltrees Public School (Hunter River Region, N.S.W.)
Hunter River District (N.S.W.)
St James' Church of England (Belltrees, N.S.W.)
social life
race horses
Esworth Monument (Belltrees, N.S.W.)

The photographs are not signed.

Attributed to John McFadyen of the Sydney Mail in White, Judy. Land settlement and selection in the Belltrees region ... Newcastle, Uni. of Newcastle, 1988 Auchmuty Library publication, no. 7, p.68 (ML Q333.3099442/1)

Date and collection title from album cover. Each photograph is titled in ink on mount, five are dated.