Ritchie Brothers, Auburn, N.S.W. (manufacturers of railway carriages, goods and coal wagons and agri...
Ritchie Brothers, Auburn, N.S.W. (manufacturers of railway carriages, goods and coal wagons and agricultural implements) : pictorial material, 1870-1955
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1870-1955
Call Numbers
PXA 697/vols. 1-4 , R 881
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
Albums - 3 albums (308 photoprints)
Drawings - 4 drawings, col.
Photographs - 193 photoprints
Objects - 18.2 x 9 x 4.6 cm. - 1 date stamp (metal with wooden handle)
Textual Records - 1 letter (typescript)
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
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Physical Access Conditions
Access to this pictures collection via appointment only. Please submit your request through Ask a Librarian : Applies to R 881
Finding aids
Contents list (compiled by Library volunteers in 1996) available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
PXD 679
Volume 1.
Auburn Works, 1901-1938 (1 album, 190 photographs, chiefly railway rolling stock, trolleybuses and trailers including a series of photographs showing men working in the machine shop, machining high explosive shell cases in 1916)
Volume 2.
Auburn Works, 1910-1920 (1 album, 45 photographs, chiefly farming machine...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Ritchie Brothers, Auburn, N.S.W. (manufacturers of railway carriages, goods and coal wagons and agricultural implements) : pictorial material, 1870-1955
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
No. 194 (Vol.4) Ritchie blacksmith shop at Parramatta taken in 1870 by the American & Australasian Photographic Company, 11 Barrack St., Sydney (dated from The mechanical eye in Australia : photography 1841-1900 / Alan Davies & Peter Stanbury. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985 (pp. 122 & 199)
For information about the agricultural...
Contextual Information
Source
Presented 1983
Pic.Acc.5505
Administrative / Biographical history
The company began in 1857 as a single blacksmith's forge at Parramatta operated by R.A. Richie (see photograph of the shop taken in 1870 at PXA 697 v.4/194). His son, Robert Fergus Ritchie was his successor and he started the business at Auburn in c. 1890. By 1893 it was managed by the Ritchie Brothers and prospered until the late 1950's as a manuf...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 697/vols. 1-4 , R 881
Record Identifier
YolEXR29
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Other Identifiers
Reference code
132752
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