Jenkins family pictorial material and realia, ca. 1876-1959

PXE 1299
PXB 257
R 786
R 787
Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 1, Shelf 22. Applies to R 787.

fonds

ca. 1876-1959

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Objects, Drawings, Medals

915893

1 plaque - silver plated
2 seals - metal with wooden handles
Approx. 1222 photographs and postcards (in 8 albums)
12 drawings - ink

Edward Johnstone Jenkins (1854-1940), physician and pastoralist, was born at Woolamon Station on the Namoi River, N.S.W., the youngest son of Richard Lewis Jenkins. A graduate of Sydney University and Oxford, he held appointments at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, from 1878 until his return to Sydney in 1883. He became Medical Superintendent at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and was Senior Honorary Physician at Sydney Hospital when he retired in 1914. He married Annie Agnes McCabe at Bowral, N.S.W., in 1887; they had two sons and a daughter, Merle Judith Hamilton.

The donor, Miss Diana Jenkins, was a granddaughter of Dr E. J. Jenkins.

Albums showing Edward Johnston Jenkins, family and friends, and various residences owned by the Jenkins family. The earliest photographs date from 1876 when E. J. Jenkins was at Oxford and the most recent photographs continue past his death in 1940 into the 1950s.

PXE 1299/BOX 1
Album 1
'E.J.J.' on cover. 26 group portraits, mostly identified, and 3 views; photographer unidentified: Oxford, including Trinity College and sporting teams, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, ca.1876-78.

PXE 1299/BOX 2
Album 2
'M.J.H.J.' on cover. approx. 230 photographs ca.1908-1912, including snapshots in Australia, school snapshots in Europe, family residence Rancliffe. Identified photographers Judith Jenkins (E.J.J.'s daughter), C. Merewether (cousin of Judith Jenkins).

Album 3
'M.J.H.J.' on cover. approx. 338 photographs, ca.1913-1919, mostly by Judith Jenkins, including interior and exterior views of 'Lindesay', and properties including Arenel, Tweed River; Ilparran, Glen Innes; Argyle, Glencoe; Fitzpatrick Stables, The Cuan; Herbert Park, Armidale; Melrose, near Leadville; Gilbulla, Menangle; Elvo, Buradoo; Bong Bong Picnic Races, Jan 1915; and views at Ku-ring-gai Chase, Royal National Park, Stonehenge, Glen Innes. One photograph entitled 'Dazzle Set arranged by G. Andrews, Oct. 1919' (group portrait of cast in Pierrot costumes, each identified on print). Family and friends include Osborne J. Jenkins, Dorothy Brunton. Hand-painted leaf inside front cover, of a kookaburra, signed 'G.M.B.'

PXE 1299/BOX 3
Album 4
'M.J.H.J.' on cover. approx. 290 photographs, ca.1918-1924 including views of Nepean Towers; Lindesay; Vaucluse House; Arrank Kameruka; Gumin, Warrumbungle; Shannon Vale, Glenn Innes; Stonehenge, Glen Innes; Inveralochy; Finisterre, Toogoolawah; Esk Showground, Qld.; Franklyn Vale, Grandchester; Rathamnell, Toowoomba; motorcycle and sidecar trips, and record of a motor trip from Tweed Heads to Sydney, Nov 13-18, 1924 [5pp. manuscript account with MLMSS 3110 ADD-ON 944]; views of Riley St Public School Inoculation Depot used in the influenza epidemic, 1919; views of Stonehenge, Glen Innes, Manus, Papua New Guinea; Christchurch, Hanmer Springs, New Zealand; Tizzana Cup, Jan 1924.

Album 5
'E.J.J. 1913' on cover. Album of M. Judith H. Jenkins 1927-1953, including approx. 200 views of Nepean Towers; Mandemar, Vaucluse; 'Abington', Armidale; Rothwood, Bowral; Burrangong, Young; Woodside, Bowral; Stonehenge, Glen Innes; Sydney Harbour Bridge under construction, 1929; 'Ka-Os', Whale Beach; Murruma, Chakola. 1 photograph of Phar Lap; photographs of horses, lorries, cars.

PXE 1299/BOX 4
Album 6
Album of Judith Jenkins, 1920s, 1950s, approx. 118 photographs. Mainly inscribed or captioned portraits of family, friends, pets and racehorses. Portrait subjects include Beryl Dempster, Gladys Andrews, Doris Kendall, Agatha Flower, Winifred Lamb, Hope Simpson, Nita Walker, Alison MacCormick; WWI servicemen Crawford Maxwell, A. R. A. Macdonald, Brian Dowling, Max Dowling, Godfrey Jenkins, Alick Osborne, Leslie Alison, Colin Ewing; Col. E. O. Milne, Bishop Burgmann, Aunt Edith, Rev Victor Evans in front of Osborne Memorial Church, Dapto, 23/6/54

Album 7
Album of 17 views of Nepean Towers, Douglas Park. each print 23 x 28 cm. Includes views along river and river crossing, layout of driveways, Nepean Towers building, interior of chapel, cottage, portrait of group of 16 workers.

Album 8
49 loose photographs and postcards and one bookplate, ca.1880-1955. Mainly single & group portraits including E. J. Jenkins, Mrs E. J. Jenkins (nee Anne MacCabe), Judith Jenkins and other family photographs. (no.9:) Dr Edwards sister, Grace Llewellyn Vaughan Jenkins, married Thomas Charles Fenton, & daughter Mary Fenton. (no.15:) large group portrait of lunch at polo, 1924, Toogoolawah or Esk. Also views of Mandemar, 35 New South Head Road, Vaucluse, including interior views with furniture; postcards of Tweed River district, Queensland and New Caledonia, 1917; bookplate of E. J. Jenkins.

PXB 257
12 ink drawings: a series of humorous ink sketches with commentary, "showing E. J. Jenkins' progress in reaching the goal of 'Honours', and 'B.A.' at Oxford", 1874-1883. Nine (nos.1-9) are rough preliminary sketches; three (nos.10-12) are final drawings, previously mounted together as a group in a cardboard window mount (removed from mount 2012).

R 786
a. Signature seal with crest, belonging to E. J. Jenkins. The face of the seal is rectangular, engraved with the Latin motto 'FE-DAL-AM-DARO' at top, a figure of a rooster in middle, & initials 'E.J.J.' at bottom. The seal is mounted on a wooden handle, painted black & varnished.

b. Signature seal belonging to E. J. Jenkins. The face of the seal is circular, engraved with the initals 'E.J.J.', with decorative markings around the rim. The seal is mounted on a wooden handle, stained brown & varnished.

R 787
Silver plated plaque from unknown item, engraved, to commemorate E. J. J.'s retirement from Prince Alfred Hospital as Medical Superintendent, 1886

Access via appointment - Applies to R 786 and R 787

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

Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room at Pic.Acc.3625

A label found with PXE 1299/Box 3/Album 4 states ""Jenkins albums. On loan Ervin Gallery, 'Lindesay Exh. [Exhibition]' Oct 18-Nov 26, 1984"", and a label with PXB 257 nos.10-12 states ""Nos.10-12 exhibited Lindesay exh. Oct 18-29 1984"". It is not clear whether these labels refer to the exhibition ""Looking east : Woolloomooloo to Watsons Bay, 20 October - 18 November 1984"", ""held at the S. H. Ervin Gallery by the National Trust of Australia, (N.S.W.) to complement an exhibition at Lindesay, Darling Point on the sesquicentenary of the House"", or whether they refer to the concurrent sesquicentenary exhibition at Lindesay itself.

PXE 1299/Box 3/Album 4: a 5-page manuscript found with this collection, entitled ""Record of m. [motor?] trip. Brisbane to Sydney via Northern Rivers. Nov 13th to Nov 18th 1924"", by Judith Jenkins, is filed with MLMSS 3110 ADD-ON 944.

PXE 1299/Box 3/Album 4: Nepean Towers was bought by E. J. J.'s father Dr R. L. Jenkins. The family lived there from 1860-1883. It was later bought by the church and renamed St. Mary's Towers. E. J. Jenkins had a great interest in the new motor car, shared by his daughter Judith. One of E. J. Jenkins sisters married Sir Hubert Murray, Lieut-Governor of Papua. Source: notes on ML file.

PXE 1299/Box 4/Album 8: Mandemar was the home of Dr & Mrs E. J. Jenkins and Miss Judith Jenkins ca.1926-1955. The interiors show much of the furniture which can also be seen in photographs of Lindesay.

PXE 1299/Box 4/Album 8/no.9: information transcribed from handwritten note (supplied by donor?), discarded.

This pictorial material, with MIN 309, P1/Jenkins, Dr E. J. (negatives at FM1/2849-50), and P1/Jenkins, Anne (negatives at FM1/2851-52), is part of the Jenkins family further papers, 1874-1960 at MLMSS 3110 ADD-ON 944.

PXB 257/10-12 on exhibition in Lindesay exhibition 18-29 October, 1984