Series 01: A. Forsyth & Co. photographs, ca.1865-1973

PXD 1297

series

ca.1865-1973

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Architectural and Technical Drawings

1022839

153 photographs - 35.5 x 56 cm. (largest), 9 x 6.5 cm. (smallest) - chiefly silver gelatin
1 architectural drawing - 21 x 33 cm. - ink

Archibald Forsyth established a ropemaking firm in Sydney in 1865, with premises at Waterloo. A. Forsyth & Co. subsequently opened a branch in Brisbane. The firm went into liquidation in 1973

PXD 1297/Box 1

approx. 128 photographs. Includes trade show displays, company and industry functions, some dated or identified, including QLTA, Brisbane, 1964 and 1966; final meeting of ARCTA NSW Section, 1970; floats, including Labour Day procession, Brisbane, 1926?, ARCTA [Australian Rope Cordage and Twine Association] & Rope Mfrs 1965; group portraits; sailing vessels in Sydney Harbour, including the Pamir (photographs ink-stamped “Consolidated Press copyright”); ‘International’ and ‘Austin’ company trucks outside East Brisbane premises; fibre plantations, ca.1953-1956, some identified as ‘Metropolitan Farm’, ‘area leased to Australian Fibres Ltd. to grow Phormium’; aerial views of Sydney and Brisbane works, undated, some by Milton Kent, some retouched; coils of rope being loaded onto ship from truck painted with ‘Kookooburra Brand’ and A. Forsyth & Co. signage, man riding the hook; West Australian Rope & Twine Co. Pty. Ltd factory, 1960, ‘received with their letter 23/6/60’; launch of ‘Lake Barrine’ at Evans Deakin Shipyards, Brisbane, 1955.

Mounted portraits, some signed, including Archibald Forsyth, Managing Partner, Chairman; John Forsyth, Managing Partner, Chairman; John Walter Forsyth, Chairman; Frederick Ashley Thorpe, Chairman; J. Wright, Manager, Qld Branch; George Daniel Marks, Manager, Qld Branch; Derwant [i.e. Derwent?] Alan Young

Australians versus Minor Counties cricket team photograph, April 1926, London

1 hand drawn floor plan of Lytton Road premises on notepaper, marked “Refer letter ex DAY dated 21-6-65”

PXD 1297/Box 2

9 mounted photographs of A. Forsyth & Co. premises at Waterloo, Woolloongabba, North Essendon, Mile End South. Some hand-coloured and retouched, ca. 1900, 1950s?

PXD 1297/Box 3

3 unframed portraits of Archibald Forsyth; 2 photographs of Rope & Binder-Twine Makers Union 8-Hour Display, Sydney 1913, and Eight Hour Demonstration, 1911 (horse drawn floats presented by A. Forsyth & Co.)

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

This pictorial material is part of A. Forsyth & Co records, ca. 1876-1971 at MLMSS 2475

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