1336648
- TitlePhotograph album containing views of Horace Watson's Tasmanian Cabinet of Curiosities, and Watson family photographs, ca. 1896-1903
- Call numberPXA 7160
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
ca. 1896-1903 - Type of material
- Reference code1336648
- Physical Description1 album (31 photographic prints) - 22.0 x 28.5 cm or smaller - gelatin silver and albumen
2 postcards - 9 x 14 cm - ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Horace Watson was born in Bendigo, Victoria, in 1862. In 1888 he married Louisa Keen, daughter of the man who invented Keens Curry, and they and their family lived in ‘Barton Hall’, Sandy Bay. The cabinet of curiosities in Horace Watson's home at Barton Hall was a museum with three foci: natural history, convict relics, and ethnography. It also functioned as a gentleman's smoking room.
Songs of Fanny Cochrane Smith were recorded by Horace Watson between 1899 and 1903 on wax cylinders. They are the only recorded examples of Tasmanian Aboriginal songs and the only recorded example of any Tasmanian Aboriginal language.
References:
australianscreen. http://aso.gov.au/ (accessed 16 June, 2015)
Library correspondence file - Scope and ContentAlbum contains photograph of Horace Watson recording Fanny Cochrane Smith on wax cylinder at Barton Hall by Howard & Rollings, circa 1903; newspaper cutting relating to recording of Smith at Barton Hall; various photographs of interior of Watson's cabinet of curiosities including weapons, carvings, costumes, convict relics, taxidermy specimens, and human remains; photographs of Horace Watson in his ethnological room; photograph of landscape painting by H. B. rollings; various copies of diagrams of spearheads; photographs of Horace Watson's father and children with farmyard animals; photographs of Horace Watson's home and his father’s home; photographs of Hobart and Mount Wellington, and Port Arthur by Beattie Studios.
Loose in album are two postcards, one from Watson's daughter; and, one photograph, very likely of Richard Stanley Watson (1889 – 1957) (Horace Watson’s oldest son) shaving, and Edward Ronald (‘Ted’) Watson (1900-73) (Horace Watson’s youngest son) at Barton Hall. Same spot that Fanny Cochrane Smith photos were taken. William Wakely signature on obverse is likely that of the photographer.
Digitised images:
1. Cover
2-3. Blank
4. Photograph and newspaper cutting of Horace Watson recording Fanny Cochrane Smith on wax cylinder at Barton Hall by Howard & Rollings, circa 1903
5-9. Horace Watson's ethnological room
10. Horace Watson (on right) and unidentified man in Watson's ethnological room
11-12. Horace Watson's ethnological room
13. Horace Watson (on right) and unidentified man in Watson's ethnological room
14-16. Horace Watson's ethnological room
17. Photograph of landscape painting by H. B. Rollings
18. Copies of diagrams of spearheads
19. Horace Watson’s daughter Emily Alma (‘Millie’) Watson (1895-1941) at ‘The Pines’, Watsons Road, Kettering
20. Barton Hall, High St (now Sandy Bay Road), Sandy Bay; Horace Watson’s oldest son Richard Stanley Watson (1889–1957) at ‘The Pines’, Kettering
21. Millie Watson at ‘The Pines’, Kettering
22. Horace Watson’s father Edward Dalby Watson (1822-1918), with Horace Watson’s youngest son Edward Ronald (‘Ted’) Watson (1900-73), and Millie at ‘The Pines', Kettering; Richard and Ted at ‘The Pines’, Kettering
23. Richard, Ted, and Millie Watson at ‘The Pines’, Kettering; Millie Watson and likely her mother Louisa Watson at ‘The Pines’, Kettering
24. Edward Dalby Watson (far left) at ‘The Pines’ Watsons Road, Kettering
25. Edward Dalby Watson at ‘The Pines’, Kettering; Millie at ‘The Pines’, Kettering
26. Snow at Barton Hall, High St (now Sandy Bay Road), Sandy Bay
27. Untitled
28. Photograph of Hobart and Mount Wellington from River Derwent, Tasmania, by Beattie Studios
29. Port Arthur in 1847, by Beattie Studios
30-31. Blank
32. Back cover
33-38. Two postcards, one from Millie to her father, Horace Watson, postmarked London, January 1921. Millie was studying music at the Guild Hall in London at the time; and one photograph, very likely of Richard Watson shaving, and Ted Watson in the background at Barton Hall. - Copying ConditionsOut of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales - Description source
Information about content of photos supplied by descendant of Horace Watson. - Date note
Dates from vendor catalogue - Creator/Author/Artist
- Name
- SubjectCabinets of curiosities
Collectors and collecting--Australia.
Aboriginal Australians--Languages.
Aboriginal Australians--Songs and music.
Aboriginal Australians--Tasmania.
Aboriginal Australians--Women.
Aboriginal Tasmanians--Languages.
Photograph albums--Tasmania
Spears--Photographs.
Women, Aboriginal Australian--Tasmania.
children
Adult Males
girls - Topic
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