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Series 02: Photographs and prints of watercolour sketches of ships by Captain James William Holmes, Master Mariner, and C.H. Williams

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Full title

Series 02: Photographs and prints of watercolour sketches of ships by Captain James William Holmes, Master Mariner, and C.H. Williams

Date

1863 - 1965

Call Numbers

PXE 1071

Record Identifier

nZNmlEQn

Reference Code

52582
Physical Description

Contents

Photographic prints - albumen, gelatin silver

Prints - watercolour drawings

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Level of description

Series

Access and use

Copying Conditions

Copyright status : Watercolours in copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years

Copyright holder : Nora Coughlan

Out of copyright : Created before 1955 (photographs)

Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Research & study copies allowed : Prints

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Scope and Contents

Contents

SERIES 02 ITEM 01
Photographs and prints of watercolour sketches of ships by Captain James William Holmes, Master Mariner, and C.H. Williams
PXE 1071

Includes:
Portrait photographs of the Holmes family

Photographs of ships including; Cimba, Inverurie, Invergarry, Mountcalm, Mount Stewart, Mersey and Port Jackson

3 wat...

Alternative Titles

Full title

Series 02: Photographs and prints of watercolour sketches of ships by Captain James William Holmes, Master Mariner, and C.H. Williams

Notes

General note

An ambrotype of an uncle of Captain Holmes, John Holmes who drowned in the Richmond River N.S.W. in ca. 1867, has been transferred from Pic.Acc.615/2. Location number: MIN 331 Mitchell Library

PXE 1071/nos 39, 41, 44, 60, 85 are embossed with the blind stamp `Hood'. These appear to be early works by the photographer Sam Hood.

The Libr...

Contextual Information

Source

Presented by Mrs Nora Coughlan, November 1965
Pic.Acc.615

Administrative / Biographical history

Captain James William Holmes (1855-1932) was a Master of sailing ships trading to Sydney in the 1890s and early 1900s.

References:
1. Voyaging, fifty years on the seven seas in sail / Captain James William Holmes, edited by Nora Coughlan. London : Hutchinson Group, 1965. Location number: 910.45/70A1 Mitchell Library
2. Colonial clippe...

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

PXE 1071

Record Identifier

nZNmlEQn

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Reference code

52582

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