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[ART AND AUSTRALIA] HORTON,, Mervyn and others (ed).Biblio.com

ART AND AUSTRALIA.

[Australia Day, 1915]Biblio.com

Australia Day 30th July 1915. Souvenir. In Aid of Funds for Wounded Soldiers . cover title

1915134649Sydney: Trustees of the National Art Gallery of NSW 1915. Very Good. Sydney Trustees of the National Art Gallery of NSW 1915. Quarto a portfolio containing 7 plates tipped in on thin gilt-captioned card mounts external dimensions 220 × 285 mm housed in the original glassine sleeve. A portfolio of gilt-lettered dark green paper over thin card a little bowed; extremities a little rubbed with minor wear to the head of the spine; front pastedown unevenly discoloured; overall in excellent condition the contents are fine. The first plate is a photographic view of the Gallery building; the others reproduce paintings by Arthur Burgess George Lambert William Lister Lister Fred Mahony A. de Neuville France and Sir Luke Fildes Britain. The only war-related images are one of the Australian Fleet in 1913 and 'The Defence of Rorke's Drift' from the Zulu War in 1879! Several relics of the day are pinned to the flaps on the rear cover of the portfolio: a large inscribed gum leaf surmounted by the Australian Coat of Arms printed on a small card disc with an attached blue ribbon; a stickpin with a small enamel Australian flag; a flower made out of felt; and a white ribbon tied in a bow with a small piece of red white and blue ribbon around the centre. For the record the Sir John Monash Centre at the Australian National Memorial in France has this to say about Australia Day: 'In 1915 Australia Day was part of a fundraising plan for Australian troops serving in the war to help improve the general living conditions of the soldiers and to enable the Red Cross and other organisations such as the South Australians Soldiers' Fund to provide more comfort and care for injured and ill Australian soldiers. It was the mother of four Australian soldiers Mrs Ellen Wharton-Kirke who suggested the organisation of a national patriotic fundraising day to celebrate Australia's military achievements in the conflict and help improve the lives of Australians serving on the front line. The idea was taken up by the government and the date of the first "Australia Day" was set for 30 July 1915. Three months after the landing of Australian troops in Gallipoli Australian communities took part in Australia Day. During this day marches fairs auctions and performances are organised all over Australia to raise funds for the troops. Commemorative items such as ribbons handkerchiefs badges or matchboxes were made and sold in the streets of Australia. The messages written on these objects appealed to Australian patriotic sentiment and the development of a strong national identity. The day was also an opportunity for those who could not serve to support the troops. In 1915 Australia Day was a success and continued in the subsequent years to support the troops fighting on the frontline. It was not until 1935 that Australia Day became Australia's national holiday and was celebrated on 26 January'. Trustees of the National Art Gallery of NSW unknown

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[Australia: kangaroo hunting and numismatics] Robert Barton (1839-1930), assayer, Deputy Master of the Royal Mint in Melbourne,Biblio.com

Australia: kangaroo hunting and numismatics. Autograph Letter Signed from Robert Barton Assayer Royal Mint in Melbourne to ‘Grubbe’ giving advice on hunting kangaroo and duck.

25015'Royal Mint Melbourne Australia / 21 May 1875'. Barton who was born in London joined the Royal Mintâ€™s Melbourne branch as one of two assayers on its opening in 1869; in 1887 he was promoted to Superintendent and in 1895 to Deputy Master holding that position until his reitrement in 1904. See his entry in the Encyclopaedia of Australian Science and Innovation. In case Barton has misspelled the name the recipient may be William Dawson Grubb 1817-1879 or his son Frederick William Grubb 1844-1923 who have a joint-entry in the Australian Dictionary of National Biography. 3pp 12mo. Bifolium. Signed â€˜Robert Bartonâ€™. In very good condition lightly aged and folded twice for postage. Begins: â€˜Dear Grubbe / I met the writer of the enclosed letter not present after you left & he told me that between us we could not have advised you to go to a worse place for the sport you want than Echuca I feel therefore that I have been instrumental although far from my intention in leading you a wild duck chase.â€™ He has been informed by â€˜Singletonâ€™ that â€˜there are very few Kangaroo if any near Echuca & the duck are impossible to get nearâ€™. He suggests that Grubbe takes the steamer to Albury and proceeds as Singleton directs â€˜& you are in a country abounding with Kangaroo & splendid duck shootingâ€™. Barton is enclosing a note from his friend â€˜to his brother who is managing the â€œWalla Wallaâ€ stationâ€™ and whom Grubbe will find â€˜a very decent fellow. He is a batchelor sic I believe living in a large house. Ask at Albury if you are anywhere near Tumbarumba Caves because if so they are one of the finest sights of the Colonies.â€™ Barton wishes he had known this information before Grubbe left â€˜as then you might have gone to Albury via the new line but if you elect to go from Echuca you will at all events see the river Murrayâ€™. 'Royal Mint [Melbourne, Australia] / 21 May 1875'. unknown

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[AUSTRALIA -- LAND PROMOTION PHOTO ALBUM]. [BEATTIE, Jr, John Watt; PHOTOGRAPHERS PHOTO SERVICE (Photographers).]Biblio.com

Australia: please DO NOT tear any photographs out . . . A pair of noteworthy land promotion photo albums with nearly 200 annotated photographs enthusiastically presenting Australian cities ports countryside business & agricultural possibilities and even distinctive native wildlife in the depths of the Great Depression.

192760008Sydney NSW; Hobart Tasmania & New York: Beatties Studio; Photographers Photo Service ca. 1927-1934. Two vols. Thick oblong folio. 13.5 x 10.25 x 2 in. 200; 170 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper stock. With 197 silver gelatin photographs all tipped-in nearly all w/ typescript mimeograph captions mounted below or alongside sized from 5 x 7 in. up to 8 x 10 in. most sized 8 x 10 in. all printed on glossy photo stock some on thicker heavier weight most w/ pencil annotations typescript or imprints on verso a few w/ photographerâ€™s imprint w/in negative at lower fore-edge others w/ embossed armorial photo studio stamp of kangaroo on shield. Uniformly bound in contemporary black pebbled flexible shagreen nested steel backed post-binders black brass screw-posts at gutter margin chipping edgewear to covers some scuffing spine leather covering perished occasional closed tears & chipping to some leaves light faint previous mounting offsetting occasional soiling or slight dampstaining to a few leaves still a VG- set of albums with nearly all of the photographs in excellent condition and with strong bright contrast. These substantial land promotion albums appear to have been designed to tout the advantages for potential homesteaders investors and visitors to Australia from the end of the Roaring 20â€™s into the Great Depression. Nearly 200 photos depicting bustling cities & shipping ports mines manufacturing burgeoning housing sports flora & fauna and some of the indigenous Australian Aborigine peoples extol the possibilities in Oceaniaâ€™s economic engine. Following World War I Australia had seen massive changes in population and increasing economic and social changes following the devastation of World War I and the worldwide influenza pandemic with over 215000 killed and wounded between both catastrophes. With the onset of the Great Depression economic activity slowed and unemployment soared to nearly 20%. These albums include several photos of the newly constructed Canberra Provisional Parliament House completed in 1927 with bare land and little infrastructure nearby except for the Hotel Canberra. Designed originally to hold politicians and visitors when the parliament was in session the Hotel was built by contractor John Howie and designed by John Smith Murdoch. Several photos of Sydney Australia the streets a flapper driving her sporty 1927 Chevrolet Capitol AA Roadster and the famed beaches of Sydney. Several photos depict the Australian Lifesaving Clubs which began in 1907 as surf life saving with the Bondi Surf Bathersâ€™ Life Saving Club but which denied full membership to women until 1980. One particular photo depicts a young comely Australian woman surfer leaning against her wooden longboard only about 15 years after Isabel Lethamâ€™s famed ride with Duke Kahanamoku in 1915. Many of the Sydney images reveal a capitol city in transition including horse-drawn cars alongside 1920â€™s automobiles and electric trolleys and trams. Also featured are photographs of the New Castle Steel works the Lithgow Steel Works whose blast furnace site closed in 1928 and the Mt. Boppy gold mining process mill depicting the cyanid vats to extract the ore. Still others show the Burrinjack Dam construction which had begun before World War I but not finished until 1928; horse-drawn silver ore mining wagons in the Barrgorang Valley from the Yerranderle Mines along roads to Camden NSW; orchards long the McDonald River and raising rabbits for the New South Wales Wool & Fur Co. Ltd. at Castle HIll near Parramatta. Also featured are many aerial and street photos of Queensland Brisbane Docks Victoria Bridge Queen Street with streetcars horse breaking in outback stations grape & cotton harvesting children attending â€œBush Schoolsâ€ and more. Still more reveal the bustling wharves at the Freemantle sheep sheering railway yards boaters on Henley-on-Yarra Flinders Street Station wheat harvest and farming and even the one of the famed wheat windjammers â€œThe Carnandale.â€ Several of the photos depict the indigenous Australian Aborigines with one of the captions noting that 60000 â€œFull-Blood and 19000 half-caste Aborigines with 40000 still nomadic and others working sheep and cattle stations.â€ Another photo is included of two young Maori girls as well.The second album also contains views of a traveling salesman or traveling â€œBust Hawkerâ€ featuring a horse-drawn wagon with sides hinged up and shoppers as well as aerial photos of gardens banana plantations date farms logging Kerri Trees in Western Australia and an entire section devoted to photos of Australian fauna. These depict Wombats Kangaroos pink & white Cockatoos Cassowary birds Wallabys Barn Owls Koala Bears Black Swans Opossums a Platypus Lyre-birds Kokaburra birds Australian penguins and others. Identified photographs by John Beattie Jr. from Beatties Studio Hobart Tasmania include Mt. Rugby from Balmoral Beach Big Ben Gum Tree on the estate of W.L. Clennett Saw Mill Proprietor Port Esperance whose height was nearly 250 feet as well as Dobsonâ€™s Basin Geeveston depicting a remarkable group of fen tree bowers. Originally founded in the 1840â€™s by the Anson Brothers John Beattie d. 1930 son of a Scottish-Australian emigre photographer worked for them in the 1880â€™s and then purchased the business renaming it Beatties Studio. He operated the studio for decades was the photographer who first developed all of Amundsenâ€™s original photos of his South Pole Expedition in a single day and was an active proponent of the indigenous Aborigine population often defying popular opinion and authority over their historical mistreatment. Sadly a 1933 fire destroyed the studio and most of the negatives but it was reconstituted and many negatives and images rediscovered afterwards. See: Elizabeth Heffernan Exciting New World: Australia in the 1920s Royal Australian Historical Society 2022; Georgie Burgess Photography Pioneer John Beattie Shared Tasmaniaâ€™s Wild Places with the World ABC Radio Hobart March 9 2019. Beatties Studio; Photographers Photo Service, hardcover

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