Aboriginal Australians

Date: 1852

By: Cooper, Duncan Elphinstone, 1813-1904; Ham, Thomas, 1821-1870

Reference: A-099-008

Description: Shows an Aboriginal in a canoe on a lake surrounded by low hills Other Titles - Burrumbeet Extended Title - From Ham Brothers' Illustrated Australian magazine, Melbourne, 1852 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 101 x 178 mm

Date: 1833-1837

From: Taylor, Richard (Rev) 1805-1873 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0254-08

Description: Contains general observations on natural history, geology and history of Isle of Ely during the time he was curate of Coveney and Manea, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire; notes written during his time in New South Wales, 1837-1839 (observations on aboriginal language, etc); and in New Zealand, 1839 (including notes in Maori and relating to Maori language). Includes map of Botany Bay and area to the north (p 158); drawings of Kiwi, plants, etc At end extracts and chronology of events taken from his journal 1 Jan 1833-31 Dec 1837 Other - Copied in March 1967 from originals lent by Cranleigh Barton, christchurch Source of title - Title page - Notebook 1835 Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph (microfilm printout) Includes map and illustrations

Date: 1799

By: Gosse, Thomas, 1765-1844; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-036-004

Description: A group of seven European men, one European woman and an Aboriginal man, posed in a clearing, with a pig and cattle to the right, trees behind (with a parrot perched on a branch) and buildings in the left background. The naval officer at the centre is Governor Arthur Phillip. The man on the far left is shooting birds, while the man to his right is turning a turtle onto its back, and on his right, a man is chopping at a log with an axe. On the far right, another man is hammering nails into a stall to contain the cattle. Picture is allegorical in treatment Other Titles - Port Jackson, Sydney Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Mezzotint, 538 x 605 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull?

Date: 1814

By: Westall, William, 1781-1850

Reference: A-124-002

Description: Shows Australian Aborigines From Flinder, Matthew. Voyage to Terra Australis ... (1814) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 6 x 9 ins Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull?

Date: 1829

By: Carmichael, John, 1803-1857; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-085-006

Description: Shows Aborigines in the right foreground, grass trees in the left foreground, carriages, and a toll gate. The buildings of Sydney, a church spire and two windmills are on the horizon Plate 6 from Carmichael's collection of prints Select views of Sydney, New South Wales Other Titles - Select views of Sydney, New South Wales Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 94 x 178 mm (image)

Date: 1870 - 1876

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

By: Winter, Alfred, 1837?-1911

Reference: E-328-f-136-2

Description: Portrait of Truganini, purportedly the last full-blooded Aboriginal woman of Tasmania, taken by Alfred Winter of Hobart Other Titles - Truganini Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Trucanini, the last aboriginal woman of Tasmania; Recto - bottom right - A Winter photo - Hobart town Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 152 x 98 mm

Date: 1974

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-072-014

Description: Shows a sailor with muskets talking with Aborigines on shore, a ship anchored in the bay. No 5 of a limited edition of 1,000 copies Extended Title - Published in Dumont d'Urville J S C. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe, Paris, 1830-35. Atlas v 1, plate Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 210 x 317 mm on sheet 430 x 558 mm

Date: [ca 1873-1875]

By: Gaul, John, -1876; Lindt, John William, 1845-1926

Reference: PA1-q-330

Description: Includes views New Zealand, Pacific and Australia, including images of indigenous houses and plantations, and a series of 12 studio tableau portraits of Aboriginal Australians, taken by John William Lindt in 1873-1874. Kai Colo (Fijian people) - name for the people who live in the mountainous interior of Fiji. It's literal meaning is something like "mountaineer". This information was given by Dr Vicki Lukere (Luker), specialist in South Pacific history, Victoria University, 1997. A series of 12 studio tableau portraits of Aboriginal Australians by John Wiiliam Lindt, including three not found in this album, are at Library reference PA1-q-1317 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album. Provenance: Written comments in the album indicate that it might be associated with Commodore J Goodenough RN, who was appointed as a commissioner by the Crown to investigate the events that led to the annexation of Fiji. This album was compiled by an unidentified member of the Australian Division of the Royal Navy based at Sydney in the mid 1870s. The Australian Naval Station was responsible for policing the Pacific and supporting Britain's interests in the region. The one date associated with the album (1875) as well as some of the images, suggest that it was compiled soon after the cession of Fiji to the British Crown. The two ships associated with the album, HMS Blanche and HMS Pearl, were both stationed at Sydney and both were involved with events in Fiji before and during cession. HMS Pearl was Commodore Goodenough's flagship. He was the officer in charge of the Australian Naval Station at that time. He also played an important political role in the process of cession in Fiji. In the album he and his officers are shown swimming on Ovalau. The compiler of the album on the other hand, seems to have been personally associated with HMS Blanche. There are two pictures of this ship in the album as well as pictures of memorials erected by the captain and crew to one of their members. HMS Blanche had been active against the traffic in cheap labour in the South Pacific. In 1873 her paymaster, Lieutenant Nettleton, had acted as temporary British Consul in Fiji after the recall of E B March.

Date: 1804-1879

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2286

Description: Other Titles - Memoirs on the extinct wingless birds of New Zealand Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: [1835]

By: Batman, John, 1801-1839

Reference: MS-0142

Description: Title continues:`...Journal kept from 10 May to 11 June 1835, both days inclusive, shewing the first settlement of Port Phillip now the State of Victoria'. Daily entries describing voyage on the `Rebecca' round the coast near George Town, Launceston, Port Phillip and other parts of Tasmania, and explorations inland, where Batman named rivers and hills. He describes meeting aborigines and their response to the travellers. Batman was the founder of Melbourne Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon) (21 cm; full calf, blue)

Date: 1956 - 1960

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994; Australian National Travel Association; McLaren & Company Pty Ltd

Reference: D-001-036

Description: Poster promoting Australia as a tourist destination, shows an Aborigine with long tapering tasselled headdress, and an emu in Aboriginal art style. A border along the top features emu footprints. Dated from other similar posters by the artist. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 1000 x 630 mm.

Date: 1905

By: Minns, Benjamin Edwin, 1864-1937; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-133-007

Description: A seated Aboriginal man kindling a fire Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 265 x 356 mm Provenance: Possibly from the collection of Alexander H. Turnbull

Date: 1784 - 1969 - 1769

By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Chambers, Thomas, 1724?-1789; Avon Fine Prints; Pictorial Publications Ltd

Reference: B-076-019

Description: Two armed Aboriginal men Reproduced from the 1770 [hand-coloured] engraving in the Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand. Issued with sheet of descriptive text. Printed by Pictorial Publications, Ltd. No. 4 of an edition limited to 500 copies Same as B-076-019-a & b Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, 350 x 295 mm on sheet 525 x 420 mm

Date: 1835 - 1845

By: Saint-Aulaire, Felix Achille, 1801-

Reference: A-251-001

Description: Naturel de l'Australie - a native of Australia. Femme Australien - an Australian woman: head and shoulders portraits of Australian Aboriginals. Naturels du port du Roi Georges - natives of King Georges port: several grass trees, two standing aboriginals, three seated in front of a hut near a beach. Naturels de la Baie Jervis - Natives of Jervis Bay: two men standing, one holding fish in his left hand and wearing a European jacket. Two conical shelters to the left with further people visible inside. The sea is behind. A summary in English and French below describes Australia Extended Title - Published in: Dumont d'Urville, J S C. Voyage pittoresque autour du monde. [Anr. ed. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph b&w, 298 x 223 mm

Date: [1890s]

By: Hemus and Hall (Firm); Pitt, S L (Miss), active 1975

Reference: PA1-o-418

Description: Album of photographs, chiefly showing scenes in Western Australia, particularly around Coolgardie and Norseman. Most of the identified views were taken by Hemus & Hall (a photographic firm in Bayley Street, Coolgardie between 1895 and 1906). A number of views show the use of camels and camel trains in Western Australia, with one showing the first steam train entering Coolgardie on 23rd March 1896. Many of the images are unidentified, but two are shown as being in New Zealand. One shows the Thames Pharmacy, owned by George Denby; and the other is a bush scene at Waikawau. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black buckram cover; 25 x 31 cm

Date: 1886 - 1890

From: Lister, Joseph Jackson 1857-1927 :[Lister album] 1886-1890 [Watercolours by Joseph, and possibly Isabella and Gulielma Lister]

Reference: E-394-f-006/007

Description: A seated man, bearded and carrying a spear. Two head and shoulder portraits of older men Quantity: 3 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen prints, sizes vary

Date: 1850 - 1890

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook [1856-ca 1890]

By: Jackson, Mason, 1819-1903

Reference: E-207-q-052-1

Description: Shows an aboriginal man looking skywards to the bee he is chasing (and not aware that he is about to trip over a low-growing shrub). Behind him are two other bee hunters. He is carrying a stick and cloth bag, and wearing a grass skirt. On the left is a grass tree. Compare with G Lacy's watercolour of the same title at B-067-052 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Title; Recto - bottom right - Artist's name. Difficult to decipher Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 162 x 215 mm

Date: 1840 - 1841

From: Artist unknown :[South Seas views from Galleria universale di tutti i popoli del mondo. Venezia, Antonelli, 1841]

By: Antonelli, Giuseppe, active 1840s

Reference: A-119-037

Description: Plate 64, volume 3 of an illustrated Italian publication. An upper plate showing two Aborigines of New South Wales, with a third in the background; a lower plate showing three men standing near a group of small huts The National Library of Australia gives the artist as Giuseppe Antonelli, active around 1841, and says the illustration comes from Universal Gallery of all the Peoples of the World. Venice,1841. Other Titles - Inhabitants of New South Wales. Natives of Norfolk Island [translation] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Two hand-coloured lithographs on one sheet, 296 x 201 mm

Date: 1839-1886

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2281

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1938-1939

From: Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd, 1872-1960 : Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1016

Description: Views of Burktown Hospital, aborigines waiting in the open for antityphoid inocculations, a large crocodile shot in the Albert River, Burktown, and a truck carting hay. Photographs taken when Agnes Bennett worked in the flying doctor service in Queensland in 1939 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).