Photographs, negatives and pictorial material from the John William Earnshaw papers, including his journey to New Guinea, 1921-1971

PXE 1182
ON 472

fonds

1921-1971

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera

908915

262 photographs - 31 x 25 cm or smaller - black and white
31 ephemera - 25 x 20 cm or smaller - postcards, newspaper clipping, colour prints on paper
38 negatives - 16.5 x 12 cm or smaller, 68 x 3.5 cm or smaller - nitrate, various formats

Historian Mr John Earnshaw was in New Guinea from 1926-1928 with Dick Roche. They lived with the natives who were bird-of-paradise hunters and travelled up the Fly River. They were one of group that found the body of German Harry on Deliverance island in 1927. Somerset Maugham had visited German Harry six months earlier and based an article on him.

This pictorial material is part of the John W. Earnshaw papers, 1921-1971 at MLMSS 4126

Folder 1
79 photographs - relating to David Collins family; drawings from serial 'Lucy Cooper'; Rear of Royal Hotel, George St; drawing of view of Sydney Cove; Home of Thomas Muir; house occupied by Henry Lawson, North Sydney; headstone of Catherine Crowley; St Leonard's Superior, 1880; drawing of 'Billy Blue'; drawings of Bungaree native tribe of NSW; portraits of various people connected with the Asia-Pacific 1579-1960 including T.F. Palmer and Skirving.

Folder 2
183 photographs - New Guinea 1926-1928
24 photo postcards - Samarai, Samoa Islands, Port Moresby 1921.


6 colour prints on paper - various landscapes of Australia from 19th Century, from the collections of the National Library of Australia and Public Library of NSW.


13 35mm negative strips - North Shore Pioneer Exhibition, July, 1886; Billy Blue; Thomas Muirand his connection with Vancouver Island; re subdivision sale of township of North Sydney, 14 August, 1854; Callum Portraits; Marine Corps 1755-1770

10 14 x 9 cm negatives - Barrington Prologue; Thomas Muir - Scottish Martyr after engraving by Kay of Edinburgh, 1793; Rev. Thomas Fyshe Palmer;

15 62mm negatives - images relating to Alex Harris' diary; 'The Laurels', Napier street, North Sydney; Rowley Tomb, Waverley Cemetery; James Cox of 'Clarendon', Tasmania - wife Eliza Cox nee Collins, daughter of Lt. Col. David Collins and Margaret Eddington.

1 transparency - View of Sullivan Cove, Hobart, 1804

Newspaper article - 'Grim End of Somerset Maugham's "German Harry"' by John Earnshaw, SMH, 24 November, 1951.

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