Photograph album relating to the Cocos Island Wireless Telegraphy Station and the Sydney-Emden battl...
Photograph album relating to the Cocos Island Wireless Telegraphy Station and the Sydney-Emden battl...
Photograph album relating to the Cocos Island Wireless Telegraphy Station and the Sydney-Emden battle, 1914 / R. H. C. Green
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1914
Call Numbers
PXB 498
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 album (ca. 122 photographs)
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Contents transcribed from partial written description by Associate Mitchell Librarian, October 1970. The original notes are with the volume and are sometimes in an unclear hand.
Not all images are described; for numbers omitted below, a photo exists without a description.
1. Emden wreck view looking forward [captioned photograph]
5...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Photograph album relating to the Cocos Island Wireless Telegraphy Station and the Sydney-Emden battle, 1914 / R. H. C. Green
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Handwritten title on cover of album: "R. H. C. Green. "B." W'S (workshop 2)" [i.e. "B" Wireless Station (workshop 2)?]
Transferred from Pic.Acc.2064 as part of the eRecords project, 2011-2012
Digital order no:Album ID : 1064166
Attributions / Conjectures
Mitchell Library correspondence file refers to "H. R. C. Green" but the album is signed "R. H. C. Green" on the front cover.
Conservation note
Some album mount windows are torn and creased; two loose photographs could be reattached (adhesive marks show original position)
Description source
Contents list compiled from notes taken by the Associate Mitchell Librarian in a meeting the vendor, October 1970.
Object History
The album was purchased from the the son of R. H. C. Green, November 1970.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Mr T. B. Green, November 1970
Pic.Acc.2064
Administrative / Biographical history
R. H. C. Green was superintendent of the Cable and Wireless stations at Cocos Islands, then known as the Eastern extension, Workshop No.2. -- source: Mitchell Library correspondence file
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXB 498
Record Identifier
npAd6dX1
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/npAd6dX1
Other Identifiers
Reference code
913176
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