Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition, 1860-1861
Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition, 1860-1861
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1860-1861
Call Numbers
SAFE/D 179 (Safe 1/405)
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Manuscripts, Clippings, Pictures, Photographs, Prints, Ephemera and Maps
Physical Description
Contents
0.11 metres of textual material (1 box) - 37 x 43 cm - manuscript
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Microfilm : CY 885, frames 1-434
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
This collection of manuscript and pictorial material is comprised of lithograph, photographs, printed material, maps, correspondence, diaries and related documents, mainly concerning the Burke & Wills Expedition, 1860-61, belonging to Robert O’Hara Burke and Richard Nash.
Item 01: Portrait of Robert O’Hara Burke
Item 02: Portrait of Rober...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition, 1860-1861
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
A.H. Spencer, 86 Bourke St, Melbourne, label on inside front cover of case.
For further details of the contents in this collection see contents notes keep with the material
Digital order no:Album ID : 1055231
Description source
Titles devised by cataloguer from Contents list.
Object History
Several items contain the bookplate of `F. Hobill Cole MD’ who was a paediatrician.
He collected Australian paintings and literature with a local collection of books on the discovery and exploration of Australasia. His paintings were sold by auction in 1923, believed to be a result of his development of Parkinson’s.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from A. H. Spencer, 7 February 1941
Exhibited in
Administrative / Biographical history
The Burke & Wills Exploratory Exhibtion left Melbourne on 20 August 1860 and made a stately progress through the settled districts to Swan Hill and Balranald and reached Menindee on the Darling at the beginning of October. Both Burke and Wills perished at Coopers Creek on the return journey in mid 1861.
Richard Nash was the Government Storek...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SAFE/D 179 (Safe 1/405)
Record Identifier
9AL4yP4Y
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9AL4yP4Y
Other Identifiers
Reference code
825447
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