Series 2: Harry Newton Scott photographs, ca.1923-1958

PXE 1278
SLIDES 210
MPG/193

series

ca.1923-1958

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Clippings

914366

approx. 1370 photographs (11 albums and 62 loose or mounted photographs), with postcards and newscuttings - some colour; 26 x 21 cm. or smaller - chiefly silver gelatin
21 slides - 35 mm. - colour

Harry and Oceana (“Oce”) Newton Scott built their 44-foot wooden wishbone ketch, New Silver Gull, on weekends and began to live aboard in ca.1944. In December 1947, when Harry Newton Scott was 60, Harry left his business as a civil engineer and surveyor - by Oce's account, spontaneously - and the couple began a 12-year cruise which took in the Pacific, both coasts of America, and the West Indies, logging 43,000 miles and 486 ports of call. On their return they continued to live aboard at a mooring in Davis Marina, Balgowlah until Harry Newton Scott died in January 1976. Oceana put the yacht up for sale in April 1977. Source: Sun-Herald 7 April 1977.

Utiekah III left Williamstown, Victoria in 1927 and cruised around the Pacific stopping at many places including Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, Tonga, Samoa, Suva, Fiji and returning to Williamstown in 1928.

New Silver Gull spent 12 years, 1947-1959, cruising the Pacific and east and west coasts of America: Sydney - Tasmania - New Zealand - Society Islands - Samoa - Fiji - Canton Island - Honolulu - British Columbia - San Juan Islands - San Francisco - California - Jamaica & U.S. East Coast - West Indies - Panama - Pago Pago - Suva - Sydney. Source: Mitchell Library file

“The wandering Scotts”, Harry Newton Scott’s manuscript account of his cruise and preparations for it, is at MLMSS 3256.

PXE 1278/Boxes 1-4 contain 11 photograph albums, outlined in the following contents list.

PXE 1278/Box 1
5 albums, numbered 1-5 on covers: Pacific cruise of Utiekah III, 27/5/1927-4/2/1928; Mark Mackie, photographer (approx. 766 photographs)

PXE 1278/Box 2
The Cruise of the Yacht Utiekah II, [December 1923]; Swan Bay – Refuge Cove – Welshpool – Ulladulla – Kiama – Northwood. Includes 2 newscuttings re Utiekah II’s picking up 2 year old Pat Suckling, son of Cliffy Island lighthousekeeper, for emergency medical attention. Crew J. E. Giles (owner/skipper), Tony Hamilton, Harold Nossiter, Jack Alsop, Tommy A’Becket, Kinny[?] McCaughan. Includes 1 identified photograph of crew and nonsense “Christmas menu” signed by crew, dated 25/12/23 (approx. 80 photographs)

Various locations, Tasmania, ca.1923; at end of volume, Silver Gull, Utiekah III, and other yachts around Hobart, 1948-49 (approx. 175 photographs)

New Zealand, 1948: Nelson, Port Ligar, Pelorus Sound, Auckland, Bay of Islands, Great Barrier Island, Whitianga, Islington Bay, Astrolabe Is., Kawau Is.; Cook Islands, Papeete, Moorea, Singapore, Wilmington, California (approx. 115 photographs)

PXE 1278/Box 3
Suva, November 1950-Vancouver 1952 (approx. 200 photographs)

Honolulu, January 1952-Cristobal Sept 1958 (approx. 80 photographs)

Approx. 55 loose and 7 mounted photographs, chiefly showing ceremonies relating to laying of foundation stone and opening of Sutherland Shire Hospital, 1955-1958, and hospital fundraising balls.

PXE 1278/Box 4
San Pedro, California, Jamaica, Bermuda, Charleston, Manorhaven, Manhasset Bay, Long Is., Mystic Museum, Boston, Portland, Maine, 1957? (approx. 11 photographs)

SLIDES 210
21 colour slides showing opening of Sutherland Shire Hospital, 1958

MPG 193
Laying of foundation stone of Sutherland Hospital, 3 September 1955 (7 silver gelatin photographs mounted on card, with handwritten captions identifying participants)

This pictorial material is part of the Harry Newton Scott further papers, 1923-1967, mainly literary manuscripts re cruises, at MLMSS 3256 ADD-ON 1049.

To accommodate irregular sizes, albums are not housed in strict chronological order.

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Out of copyright: Applies to photographs taken before 1955
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