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1008856
  • Title
    Series 12 : A. J. Vogan photoprints and postcards, ca. 1884-1929
  • Call number
    PXA 2170/Boxes 1-5
    PXD 1463
  • Level of description
    series
  • Date

    ca. 1884-1929
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    1008856
  • Physical Description
    516 photographic prints - 50cm x 40cm or smaller - gelatin silver
  • Scope and Content
    PXA 2170
    BOX 1
    1. Photograph of Gustavus von Tempsky, inscribed ‘The hero of Maori War. Given me by Capt. Gold who served with him, 1896’
    2. Uniformed man on horse, photograph given to Mr Vogan by William [indecipherable] Surgeon O.N.A., Onehunga, 1886
    3. A.J. Vogan camp when on Coolgardie Mine, 1896
    4. Camp in Don Dorrigo scrub, 1892
    5. Vogan in uniform as sergeant of Prince of Wales Light Horse in Boer War, standing with horse and rifle. Photo reprinted together with newspaper brief about capture of Commandant Scheepers in the Cape Colony by Vogan, “an Australian [i.e. New Zealand] scout”, 20 October [1902]
    6. A.J.V’s first wild bullock at Pratt's farm, New Zealand, 1897
    7. Roseberry prospecting party, Niagara, W.A. July 1895. Notes on rear
    8. Special cyclists Coolgardie, 1896
    9. ‘My camp’
    10. Lane Cove, May 1894
    11. Unidentified girl
    12-13. [A.J. Vogan?]
    14. ‘Our boys at the front’ General Birdwood and staff (postcard)
    15. Cockatoo Island from Balmain, 1892
    16. Diamond Jubilee clock tower at Lewisham, 1900
    17-18. Unidentified country houses, ca. 1892
    19. Perth Office, Barrack St. Perth
    20. Green Bay, Port Eliot
    21. Blue Mountains Leura upper falls, 1892
    22. North Shore Sydney from Farm Cove, 1897. Stamped on rear: “Arthur J. Vogan F.R.G.S. Special journalist, Coolgardie Miner and Pioneer, Late Artist Correspondent : Illustd London News, Town & Country, S. Mail, N.Z. Farmer &c.”
    23. Leura Gully, Blue Mountains, 1897
    24. Pastoral scene by Mrs Humphrys, 1906
    25. John Liddy (agent)
    26. John [Carmiddy?] Sydney 1891
    27. "The dear ol gentleman Herbert Harrington-Brown"
    28. Group portrait, Te Puke, New Zealand, ca. 1884
    29. N.J. Wood’s house, Little Bognor, near Littleworth, Sussex, ca. 1877
    30. Unidentified man
    31. J. Kinder Late master S. John’s College, Auckland, New Zealand
    32. Unidentified woman
    33. Unidentified man
    34. Child on horse
    35. Unidentified child
    36. Unidentified children, one on rocking horse
    37. The Late Edward Charles Close pioneer of Morpeth, N.S.W.
    38. Winnie Caldiwell aged 4 ½ years, 1897
    39. Photograph of old woman with billboard “The Sun is declared black” in envelope marked : ‘Selling newspaper for 50 years’

    BOX 2
    Photographs (162) include A. J. Vogan with aboriginal rock carvings, traced rock carvings at Kuringai and Gosford; Bora Tree ceremony (Kerry & Co. Ltd.); hand and shield paintings; the marked Explorer’s tree at Blackheath; Frank Cotton; convict prison at Oatlands, Tasmania, 1909; scenes at Mr Rutherford’s, Manor Rd. Hornsby, 1927; Northern Queensland; bathing at bush rockpool; Manly; Sydney Harbour; “Gwalia”; unidentified ships; State Recruiting campaign headquarters at Sydney G.P.O. and Cobbitty Church; Brookvale; Narrabeen; Cobbitty; Tasmania; Gosford; Hornsby, ca. 1909-1927

    BOX 3
    1. Dr Kinder’s, Remuera, [New Zealand]. Written on back: Woodcroft Remuera Feb. 9 1897 from J. Kinder with best wishes
    2. Woodcroft, Remuera
    3. Mr Swarbrier and some of the Moa bones found on his place
    4-8. Country side, New Zealand
    9-42. Far North, New Zealand
    43-51. Rock Point, Auckland
    52. House and car. Written on rear: 310 Remuera Road Auckland N. Zealand Nov. 1929. Best wishes for Xmas and the New Year
    53. [A.J. Vogan?]
    54. House and garden. Written on rear: Taiparoro Tauranga N.Z.

    BOX 4
    Photographs (ca. 165), some captioned on rear, of scenes in Fiji including panorama of Suva; villages; ceremonial dances; stone relics; Lepers Island; Yasawa Island; inscriptions in cave at Yasawa; village children; Captain Gibson’s, Yasawa; Far North Yasawa

    BOX 5
    Photographs (65) of Fijian, Trobriands and New Caledonian scenes including photograph of Vogan’s sketch of carvings in Yasawa caves; the Western’s pony; Magistrate, missionary and pearl buyer in Trobriands, 1932; British community at Noumea on Empire Day, 1922; rock carvings; Papuan natives; wharf scene at Suva; plan of Yasawa caves

    PXD 1463
    Photographs (5) ‘Taken from the British Bi-Plane, May 9th 1911 from 1000 ft high. Neg. by Mr Vogan’, Mascot; photographs (5) of the pilot William Ewart Hart with his Bristol biplane and onlookers at Penrith, ca. Nov. 1911
  • Copying Conditions
    Copyright restrictions may apply: Photographs created before 1955 are out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright for the life of creator plus 70 years
    Research & study copies allowed:
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and courtesy copyright holder
  • General note

    A second copy of the photograph of William Ewart Hart with his Bristol biplane and onlookers at Penrith, ca. Nov. 1911, PXD 1463, is digitised at SPF/1587 (ID a928593)
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