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Photographs and accompanying articles regarding missionary life in Papua New Guinea, 1931-1946 / by Anthony William Ross
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PXA 1470
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9PQ8GGln
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Photographs and accompanying articles regarding missionary life in Papua New Guinea, 1931-1946 / by Anthony William Ross
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Photographs and accompanying articles regarding missionary life in Papua New Guinea, 1931-1946 / by Anthony William Ross
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1931-1946
Call Numbers
PXA 1470
Record Identifier
Formats
— Physical Description
Contents
22 photographic prints - 16.5 x 22 cm. or smaller - silver gelatin
18 sheets of textual material - photocopies
— Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955 (Photographs)
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Copyright status : In copyright (applies to periodical articles)
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— SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Contents
The 22 photographic prints in this collection illustrated some of the articles included here for the periodical, 'The Christian Family and Our Missions', written by William Anthony Ross. All prints are described on their reverse side and depict scenes witnessed by or involving Father Ross
Article titles include;
'Morning on a Desolate Coa...
— ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Full title
Photographs and accompanying articles regarding missionary life in Papua New Guinea, 1931-1946 / by Anthony William Ross
— AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Author / Creator
— NOTES
General note
Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.2692 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012
— CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION
Source
Originals lent for copying by Mary Mennis, 22 December 1972
Pic.Acc.2692
Administrative / Biographical history
William Anthony Ross (1895-1973), Catholic missionary, was born on 23 September 1895 at Whiteport, New York State, United States of America, sixth of ten children of Irish-born parents William Ross, engineer, and his wife Mary Agnes, née O'Laughlin. William's mother died when he was 7. While at the Franciscan Sisters' welfare home at Peekskill, he heard of Fr Damien's work with lepers on Molokai Island, Hawaii, and dreamed of becoming a missionary. After he had completed high school, the Sisters arranged for him to attend college at St Laurent, Montreal, Canada. In 1913 he began an apprenticeship in an electrical-engineering firm. Three years later he entered the seminary run by the missionaries of the Society of the Divine Word (S.V.D.), at Techny, Illinois. Ordained priest on 10 June 1922, he was appointed to the S.V.D. seminary at Duxbury, Massachusetts
In 1926 Francis Wolf, the German bishop at Alexishafen in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea, wrote to the American province of the S.V.D. requesting an English-speaking priest to be his secretary. Ross volunteered, and arrived in New Guinea on 19 November. Among other responsibilities, he acted as liaison officer between German missionaries and Australian administrators of the former German colony
During World War II Ross and his colleague Fr George Bernarding helped Australian civilians to escape from Japanese troops advancing from the north coast. Despite protests from the Catholic Church, both priests were evacuated to Australia under military orders in February 1943. For the next two years Fr Ross served in the parish of Kogarah, Sydney. In September 1944 he and Bernarding returned to New Guinea
Reference:
Australian Dictionary of Biography http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ross-william-anthony-11566 (accessed 21 May, 2012)...
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— PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS
Call Numbers
PXA 1470
Record Identifier
9PQ8GGln
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https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9PQ8GGln
— OTHER IDENTIFIERS
Reference code
913279