Lawrence Hargrave - Photographs and drawings of flying and other machines, 1865-1915
Lawrence Hargrave - Photographs and drawings of flying and other machines, 1865-1915
Lawrence Hargrave - Photographs and drawings of flying and other machines, 1865-1915
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1865-1915
Call Numbers
PXD 704
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
18 photographs - albumen
119 architectural drawings
Textual Records - printed
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Arrangement
Chronological (arranged by Ian Debenham, Curator of Transport, Powerhouse Museum, October 1996)
Access and use
Issue Copy
Microfilm : CY 3628, frames 123-455 (PXD 704/1-6). See also 3 selected digitised images opposite.
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Vol.1. 1865-1878 [early apprentice drawings including designs for stump extractor, card shuffler, various air pumps and gauges, capstan, calipers, pedespedes [early rollerblades], elipseograph and sympalmographs. Also designs for an outrigger yacht, "Phoenix"; various self-propelling boats; and a wooden flap from his shoes for walking on water, c...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Lawrence Hargrave - Photographs and drawings of flying and other machines, 1865-1915
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
Transferred from the Mitchell Library Manuscripts Section (Lawrence Hargrave - Miscellaneous papers, 1881-1914): ML MSS 299X, which see also (microfilm copy: CY 3628, frames 1-122).
Three maps are included on the same microfilm reel: CY 3628, frames 456-461.
Preservation microfilm copy made, Nov. 1996.
Digital order no:Album ID : 823593
Signature / Inscriptions
Most drawings annotated and signed at lower edge
Most photoprints stamped "C. Bayliss, photo. Sydney" at lower edge
Published information
Volume 4, number 5 published in:- Our yesterdays : Australian life since 1853 in photographs / arranged by Irma Pearl; with a commentary by Cyril Pearl. London, Angus & Robertson, 1954, p. 124
Contextual Information
Source
Pic.Acc.3536
Exhibited in
Administrative / Biographical history
For biographical information on Lawrence Hargrave see Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.9, pp.196-198
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXD 704
Record Identifier
n88lradn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n88lradn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
128787
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