Group portraits of journalists from the Sydney Morning Herald and Sydney Mail; souvenir of our trip to Jenolan Caves and the recovery of the Emden's bell, 1927-1967 / Fred Coleman-Browne

PXE 1312

fonds

1927-1967

Graphic Materials, Photographs

910456

15 photographs - approx. 20 x 24.5 or smaller - chiefly gelatin silver, one albumen

Fred Coleman-Browne was an industrial and political journalist for the 'Sydney Morning Herald' for 42 years.

Group portrait of 'Sydney Morning Herald' and 'Sydney Mail' literary staffs, ca. 1930 (One original and four copies) Inscription on back: Fred Coleman-Browne fourth from right in second back row. (Separate sheets with list of people in photograph. Includes Mungo MacCallum)

Photograph showing group of journalists at work, possibly in court setting on the occassion of Coleman-Browne's scoop of Jock Garden's 'dead men tell no tales' statement in June 1928.
Inscription on back: photograph shows James Kenneth Morley, correspondent for the 'Labor Daily', far right. Identified by his granddaughter, Sept. 1986.

Group photograph taken at a formal evening function that includes Coleman Browne (third from right) and possibly the Governor General, Gerald Strickland, and his wife (no date)

Group photograph (in mount) of people in period costume with sign: The Sydney Morning Herald: a 'Century of Journalism', 1831, 1864, 1897, 1931. Inscription on back: F. Coleman Browne as 'Granny' Herald

Group photograph of unidentified males, including 2 pilots, in front of two biplanes, ca. 1920-ca. 1940

Portrait of unidentified male. Inscription on back: Brownwood Studios, 27 Oxford St, Hyde Park, Sydney

'Souvenir of our trip to Jenolan Caves', 26 Jan. 1927
Group photograph of delegates to the annual convention of the Australian Workers' Union held at Katoomba on January 20 where the union agitated for a 30-hour week of five days. Signatures on the back include Jack Bailey, John Wise and Pat Higgins

Photographs relating to the recovery of the Emden's bell. (Coleman Browne persuaded a German national to disclose where he had buried the Emden's bell after stealing it from the War Museum in Sydney. The Emden was a German ship sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Cocos Islands during World War 2. Reference: Sydney Morning Herald, 29 May 1967)

Forms part of MLMSS 3526

Copyright restrictions may apply: Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright for the life of creator plus 70 years.

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