G. F. Matthews lantern slides, 1889-1901, with slides by A. H. Gray and Rev. Frank Cash, 1927-1951

SLIDES 213

fonds

1889-1951

Graphic Materials, Photographs

909991

352 slides (7 boxes) - 8.2 x 8.2 cm - lantern

G. F. Matthews assistant engineer in the Queensland Post and Telegraph Department and a member of the Queensland Electrical Association. He presented public lantern slide shows of the Jenolan Caves to audiences in Brisbane; a handbill held at MLDOC 2420 advertises one such evening on Friday 24 May [1895 or 1901] at Corinda School of Arts. According to Matthews' daughter, the donor of this collection, he was in charge of the installation of the first telegraph system in Queensland. -- References: Brisbane Courier, Monday 31 January 1898 p.3, Tuesday 26 April 1898 p.4, accessed via Trove, 12/10/2012; ML correspondence file.

BOX 1
Item 01: BOX 1 Views of Brisbane, 1889-1901

BOX 2
35 slides
Views in Brisbane and Sydney, 1895-96, by GFM, including Mosman’s Bay, Double Bay; elephant in Melbourne Zoo, ridden by visitors [slide cracked]; unidentified group of police?; 2 slides of Kikeni women; also Sydney views by GWW; Woolloomooloo Bay, signed H. King [sailing ships at dock]

BOX 3
50 slides
Views of Jenolan Caves, GFM, 1896. Includes portrait of Mr Voss Wiburd, guide; views of Kanimbla Valley; Grand Hotel, Mount Victoria. 2 slides of Jenolan Caves and Katoomba by A. H. Gray, 1927 and 1945.

BOX 4
78 slides
Box lid with painted signature “G. F. Matthews, Sandgate”
Views of Jenolan Caves; some views of Rome, Italy, Athens, Bombay. Initialled GFM unless otherwise noted. One portrait of an Aboriginal woman wearing a coat and neckerchief, standing in front of a tree, titled only “Mary-Ann”; portrait of shirtless, bearded man with dog, standing in yard, titled “R. E. Weaver. Killed by natives” [slide cracked]; portrait of man seated on lawn with child, untitled, initialled & dated “Aug. 1900 G.F.M.”; Reaper & binder, Green Hills, Warwick [horse-drawn reaping machine in operation]; five men taking refreshments in rocky creek bed; [studio portrait] Rev. E. C. Osborn, 1892, G. F. M. photo; Goondi Mill, Johnstone River, North Queensland, 1893 [slide cracked]; [View of canefield] “Shewing method of taking off cane from partly cleared paddock. Portable tram in use”; [studio portrait] Lady Norman, G.F.M.; Sir Henry Norman, G.F. M.; Kanakas. Field Hands. Goondi [thirteen men, one woman and baby in front of cane fibre shelter]; Group, Kabadi natives, dancing; Landing of Sir H. W. Norman, 1889; Group of Aborigines [man, woman, youth and two children]; commercial humorous illustrations of cats and dogs; photographic slide dramas entitled The Fireman’s Wedding, The Lifeboat.

BOX 5
49 slides
H.I.M.S. Wolfe [on a mooring]; Queensland Club from Botanic Gardens; Museum, William, Street, Brisbane; Govt. Buildings, William Street [Brisbane]; Gunboat Paluma stranded in Botanic Gardens by flood of 1893; views of Sandgate, Botanic Gardens, Brisbane; Bridge, Cabbage Tree Creek; Yachting on the Brisbane River; Mt Cootha; Lytton Encampment, 1898; Goondi Road, Johnstone River, N.Q., Steamers loading sugar, Goondi Wharf; Locomotive hauling in cane to Mill, Goondi. 2 feet gauge; Hart’s timber wharf, Maryborough; Gympie; Queensland National Bank, Charters Towers; Camping out [6 men and boys]; Townsville; Indooroopilly railway bridge destroyed by flood 5th Feb 1893; Sandgate railway station.
Views of Brisbane, and Townsville, by G.W.W.

BOX 6
72 slides
The Cascades, Norfolk Island, A. H. Gray 17.7.51; Spooner’s Lookout, Echo Point Katoomba, AHG Aug 1945; Meeting of the waters, Leura, taken by floodlight, AHG, June 1950; views in Norfolk Island including interior of the Mission, Chapel of St Barnabas, July-August 1951; AHG July 1951; South Coast NSW scenes including “Billow-View”, Gerringong, AHG, 1948-49; Scenes by AHG of Blue Mountains, 1950, Rabaul, 1933, Sydney scenes 1946-1950 including Caretaker’s Hut, National Park, Lane Cove NSW, Jan 1950; Quarantine Station, North Head, Feb 1950; Katoomba, 1946-1950; Street scenes, Victoria, Hong Kong, 1930, 1945; “A.W.A. Tower on 16th March 1939, made expressly for Mr Harold Gray by Frank Cash”; Cattai Creek, Wagstaff, Mossvale, 1950-51; Manila, Philippines, 1929, 1945; No. 2 Dredge, Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., Bulolo N.G., undated; Gerroa NSW, Crooked River, June 1949; British fleet air arm farewell to Sydney, Monday 12 Nov 1945; Fireworks for Victory Day, taken from Neutral Bay, 10.6.46; Dutch Hospital ship Tjitjalenka [i.e. Tjitjalengka] in Sydney Harbour, 12 Oct 1945.
Include notes regarding toning e.g. “Kodak slide – sulphide toned”; “Kodak White Label – Dye toned in Malachite Green”; “Dye-toned with Methyl Violet”; “Ilford slide – Sulphide toned”, Kodak White Label – toned in “Tabloid” Blue

BOX 7
Item 02: BOX 7 Slides of Harbour Bridge during construction, ca. 1930-1932

Box 1 and Box 7 of this collection are described in two separate item records. You may navigate to these records through the collection hierarchy.

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

The arrest of John Tigney on suspicion of having murdered Gervais Dubrocca (who is pictured in one of these slides) at Sandgate "on the 3rd instant" is reported in The Brisbane Courier, 21 Apr 1890, p5 (accessed via Trove 4 Oct 2012). On Wednesday 14 May 1890, the Brisbane Courier reported on the magisterial inquiry into the murder of Gervais Dubrocca. Matthews appeared as a witness at the inquiry: "George Frederick Matthews, draftsman in the Chief Engineer's Office, Brisbane, residing with his father, Archdeacon Matthews, in Deagon-street, Sandgate, stated that on Good Friday morning he saw Dubrocca, whom he knew quite well by sight, in Jane-street shortly after 9 o'clock going in the direction of the beach."

This pictorial material is part of ML DOC 2420.

The printed handbill at MLDOC2420 advertising G. F. Matthews' Jenolan Caves slide show at Corinda School of Arts is dated Friday 24 May, no year. 1895 and 1901 are years in which this date fell on a Friday.