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Mainly research notes but includes also some papers of G. A. King, a friend of Houison and an historian, who worked for the Sydney Morning Herald. Includes manuscript of G. A. King's 'The New South Wales Military Forces 1788-1903' with associated material. Also included is a rough minute book for the Bulli Colliery Disaster Relief Committee, 1887

Four first day covers, 1945, and a 1918 coin have been removed from MLMSS 2045/Box Y 583/Folder 1 and transferred to SAFE/MLMSS 2045/Box Y 583/Folder 1

James Keith Solling Houison papers, 1789-ca. 1956

PXD 1093
1 photograph album, ca.1906-1915, including: Sydney Hospital nurses, 1906; nurses and servicemen abroad, including at Australia No.1 Hut, Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, 1915; views of Sydney and Wollongong, Egypt, Fiji. Identified subjects include Nell Eales, Dr Brien Marsden, “Billy Williamson”, Georgie Lamb, and Biddy Mac at home on Cockatoo Island and at flat at Francis St, Sydney

Identified studio and group portraits, ca.1880-1920, including: Many & Warringah Historical Society visit to Bar Island, Hawkesbury River; Miss Hill and Miss E. Hill on verandah of cottage, Bent St, Sydney; G. A. Harris, possibly a son of Alexander Harris; Daisy Fairclough; Fred Weston; Charles Weston; W. Stevenson, Maclean; copy portrait of Dr Alleyne; L. A. Reed (in office); group portrait of Prince Alfred Yacht Club, 1910. Studios include Fay’s Studios, Sydney; Creelman, Sydney; H. Bird, Parramatta; G. A. Hills, Sydney

Unidentified studio and group portraits, ca.1880-1920. Studios include J. Hubert Newman, Sydney; E. Hart, West Maitland; W. Bradley, Sydney; Tuttle & Co, Sydney; Globe Photographic Company, Parramatta; Falk Studios, Sydney; Carl Ehlers, Grafton; Charlemont; The Olive Studio, P. Creagh, Parramatta; Creelman, Sydney; Freeman, Sydney;  Hermann Schmidt, Auckland; Jas Creed, Sydney; Swiss Studio, Sydney; Pascal M. Lisson, Manly; G. A. Hills, Sydney

Photographic views of Sydney and Newcastle, ca. 1880-1900, including White Horse Hotel, P.A.E. Hagin; Criterion Family Hotel; Foley’s Hotel; exhibition building, Sydney?; mining scene, Newcastle? Studios include H. L. Orr, Leichhardt; Charlestown Studios, Newcastle; G. A. Hills, Sydney

Wattle Day 1920 (6 photographs)

b&w photographic prints of cartoons by H. Macintosh (3)

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[Wattle Day, 1920]

Wattle Day, 1920

James Keith Solling Houison photographs, ca.1880-1920

SERIES 01: PRINTS, PHOTOGRAPHS & POSTCARDS (Mitchell Library call no. PXA 1721)

PXA 1721/Box 1
21 prints: etchings, engravings, lithographs. Include 'Town & Cove of Sydney / Woodthorpe, Sc. Pub. by M. Jones, Paternoster Row, March 18 1803'; and Australian views after S. T. Gill published by Sands & Kenny, Sydney & Melbourne, 1857, and after S. Prout, T. Baines, N. Chevalier, J. Carr and J. C. Armytage, published by Virtue & Co., London; lithograph titled ‘Native Police’ (mounted police), ‘Plate 3’, ‘W. B. Clarke’ in pencil on verso; etching of Sydney Harbour Bridge, signed G. Marler; etching of Old Lennox Bridge, Parramatta River, signed G. Ansdell, bound as a greeting card.

Approx. 136 photographs: albumen and silver gelatin. Include cabinet card, carte de visite, and loose and mounted albumen and silver gelatin photographs. Some are captioned on verso. Portrait subjects include Rev. E. Smith, licensed minister Queanbeyan & Canberra; Herbert J. Ramsay, ca.1892; Lady Carrington, by Freeman; Colonial Artillery of New South Wales; Rev. J. B. Laughton; group portrait, 1930s? including Miss  Granger, H. Granger and Mrs A. Granger, Miss Joan Stanfield, R. Stanfield and Mrs Stanfield, R. J. Lukins and Mrs Lukins, Mrs L. S. Phillips, F. W. Bentley, Mrs Adcock, and others. Views include Lennox Bridge, Parramatta; Judge Blair’s home, Goldenmount; Grafton during flood, 23 January 1887; Nairn Cottage, July 1910; grave of John Poole; coach and horse with boys from Burnside Homes; Old Mill, Mt Gilead Estate; 3 silver gelatin copy prints from damaged original photographs of Lieut. McDougall (35mm. copy negs at FM1/5781-FM1/5783; original photographs discarded 1982).

PXA 1721/Box 2
182 photographs: carte de visite, tintype, stereoscopic, silver gelatin. Views include ‘Keyham’, Camperdown, Victoria; Burrinjuck Dam; Canberra, 1924, 1927; Sans Souci, Victoria; Cann River Hotel, 1922; Aboriginal carved tree at Merrigal Estate; “1st brick home in Australia at Windsor”; table tops by G. W. Green. Identified and unidentified portraits include Rev. H. H. Gaud; Rev Wm Wood, incumbent of Pennant Hills; Rev P. Galliard Smith, incumbent, Canberra Church; identified and unidentified group portraits, including Coronation Cadets’ camp at Crystal Palace [1911?]; Pastime Camp, Freshwater.

PXA 1721/Box 3
Approx. 710 postcards, ca.1905-1915. Mostly Australian views, inscribed or blank on verso. Many are addressed to G. A. King. Most are clearly commercially produced postcards. Original postcard prints have been filed with original photographs at PXA 1721 / Box 1.


SERIES 02: PICTORIAL AND TEXTUAL MATERIAL (Mitchell Library call no. PXD 1311)

PXD 1311/Box 1
2 drawings: ink. Titled 'Black Bobs Creek Bridge, Berrima-Goulburn Road'; 'Berrima (original) Bridge, from sketch in Sir Thomas Mitchell's Field Book C 53, Mitchell Library ...'. Both drawings signed and dated H. W. Cotton, [19]20.

7 drawings: pastel and watercolour. Include views titled ‘Byrnes Clothing Factory 1850’ (unsigned); view of colonial house initialed ‘BB’; ‘Bull’s Run’, Kurrajong, by Mrs Cranstoun[?].

1 folder of textual material: Includes manuscript notes regarding seats at Royal Australian Historical Society (plans at PXD 1312); manuscript table of surnames relating to districts of NSW; 1 page manuscript notes about Chief Inspectorship of railways?, date stamped 21 Feb 1923; carbon typescript letter re building at 357 George Street, Sydney; admission ticket to official opening of History House, 7 February 1941; invitation to laying of the foundation stones of St Andrew’s Church, Parramatta, 8 August 1925; terms and conditions of option to purchase History House, 25/11/1957 (roneo, with mss annotations); autographed program for address by H. C. Armstrong at Sydney Boys’ High School, 25/5/1959.

1 folder of textual material and pictorial material from a wrapper marked “Rowley” (discarded): original wash drawing of interior of a cathedral, unsigned, approx. 23 x 32.5 cm.; printed obituary of Mrs Briggs, d.27 September 1882; 6 photographs including carte-de-visite portrait of an unidentified woman, views of Sydney  and school group portrait; printed list of officers of Burwood Bowling Club, 1944-1945.

Approx. 83 loose and mounted photographs: 19th century views of Sydney and Parramatta; portraits of Alfred Henry Brown; A. J. Hare; Charles J. Love (dated May 1915); 'H's father or grandfather'; Miss Burns, Parramatta; Charles Thomas Weaver, police magistrate, Parramatta.

5 folders (approx. 86 original photographs and copy prints, 2 drawings, manuscript notes, correspondence and cuttings). Titled “Porfolio no.7” to “Portfolio no.11”, with numbered key to contents on front covers. Probably from the collection of G. A. King: includes correspondence addressed to him. Photographs include students in cadet training ship ‘Macquarie’, 1898; Sydney Bushwalkers club Annual Swimming Carnival at Leumea, 1934; views of historic sites in Sydney, Parramatta, Windsor, Bathurst; portraits including Phil and Mrs May; planting of Prime Ministers’ Avenue, Faulconbridge, 1935; Prince of Wales visit to Sydney, 1920, including pinning one of his losing betting tickets to the coat of a member of his staff at Randwick Races, Sydney, and decorating Brigadier-General C. F. Cox. Drawings: ink drawing by Edgar A. Holloway of General Gordon Statue in Trafalgar Square; charcoal profile of Harry Sherring by Kerwin Maegraith.

1 folder containing approx. 64 miscellaneous photographs, 5 watercolours, postcards and newscuttings removed from files in the Houison papers in January 1982, including views of Camperdown Cemetery found attached to file marked “Miscellaneous papers no.964 Camperdown Cemetery including G. A. King’s speech re. Balmain Cemetery Aug. 16  1947”; and photos removed from file marked “Bits & Pieces of History”. Includes early automobile races; bathing machines at Coogee; Cambridge Hall, Newtown; Milson’s Point Ferry Arcade. 5 wash and watercolour sketches of scenes from the journey of Burke & Wills, with instructions in pencil and brushpoint regarding publication; one signed “A. H. Burkitt”; between 12.2 x 19 cm. and 7.8 x 12.6 cm.

1 poster: ‘Back to Parramatta’, 145th Anniversary 1788, Oct 26th to Nov 4th 1933. Colour screenprint by Argus Print, Parramatta. 39.5 x 28.5 cm.

PXD 1311/Box 2
7 albums: snapshot album containing 103 postcards and commercial photographs of Tasmania; album containing approx. 73 postcards (Australian and non-Australian views); 5 scrap albums, chiefly containing engravings (1 etching titled on verso “The Forest Pathway / Etched by H. Deilers”)

PXD 1311/Box 3
Approx. 117 photographs, with newscuttings and photomechanical prints. Mostly copy prints relating to Australian historical research

1 certificate: voting certificate for Andrew H. McCulloch, Australasian Federal Referendum, July 1899.

2 panoramic views of Parramatta : photomechanical reproductions of panoramic photographs. Supplement to the Christmas number of “The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers’ Advocate”, Dec 17, 1904; and Panorama of Parramatta, 1925, by R. P. Moore, issued by the Cumberland Argus (25.5 x 101.5 cm.)

3 reproductions of sketches by Rhys Williams

1 engraving: The Australian International Exhibition Building, 1879, issued with “The Graphic” illustrated newspaper, London (extensive tears and stains).

1 drawing: pencil rubbing of gravestone of [C]atherine Crowley, d. Jan 6th 1800, sheet approx. 57 x 35 cm.


SERIES 3: PHOTOGRAPHS MAINLY OF VIEWS IN NEW SOUTH WALES, PREDOMINANTLY 1928-1939 (see separate catalogue records ; Mitchell Library call no. PXA 7214)


SERIES 04: ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS & PLANS (Mitchell Library call no. PXD 1312)
See separate catalogue record SERIES 4 NOS. 1-10: Remodelling of no. 8 Young Street Sydney for the Royal Australian Historical Society, 14 October 1940 / Frank G. Costello architect (PXD 1312/nos. 1-10)

PXD 1312/no. 11
1 architectural plan: Plan of proposed alterations and additions to shop premises Church & George Sts Parramatta for Mr R. Moxham. Undated. Scale 1/8” = 1’0”. Blueprint; approx. 52 x 72 cm. 


SERIES 05: SLIDES (Mitchell Library call no. SLIDES 261)

SLIDES 261
12 black and white 35mm. transparencies: from envelope inscribed “Spare transparencies of St James” [Church, Sydney].


SERIES 06: NEGATIVES (Mitchell Library call no. ON 527)

ON 527 (2 boxes)
78 black and white glass plate negatives: 8.5 x 11 cm., 10 x 12.5 cm., 12 x 14 cm., 22 x 16.5 cm.
Glass negatives are from the collection of G. A. King.

Subjects include Vaucluse House and Nielsen Park, carting rabbits to market at Burrowa [Boorowa], NSW, Camperdown Cemetery, portrait of a woman with ornate bodice and headdress,  “Young Miss F.”; buildings in Eden, Feb 1906, with portraits of two women and children.

4 35mm. film negatives relating to St John’s Church and Parsonage, Parramatta, and copies from the Sydney Morning Herald, Monday, 16 December 1850.

SERIES 07: REALIA (Mitchell Library call no. R 2083)

R 2083
1 brown wax seal, broken; approx. 10 x 10 x 1.8 cm. group of fragments from a larger circular seal. Part of text and motif is visible on surface.

1 red wax seal affixed to fragment of an envelope. Seal approx 1.4 x 1.2 cm. featuring griffin motif; paper stamped “JU30 1849” in red ink.

1 plaque : alloy, 16.7 x 13.5 x 0.4 cm. Pencil inscription on reverse reads "Cast of tablet at Kurnell ... [illegible]". Text on obverse in memory of James Cook and Joseph Banks (“This spot once saw them ardent in the pursuit of knowledge / Now to their memory this tablet is inscribed / in the first year / of / the Philosophical Society of Australasia / Sir Thomas Brisbane … / President / AD MDCCCXXI”)

James Keith Solling Houison pictorial material and realia, ca.1803-ca.1959

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