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BOX 1
Folder 1
Letters, mainly from Sir Henry Parkes to Julian Rossi Ashton, 1888-1891

Folder 2
Letters received by Julian Rossi Ashton, mainly from Sir Philip Game, Robert Louis Stevenson, Eliezer Levi Montefiore, Lord Carrington, Sir Henry Parkes, Thomas R. Bavin, Bernhard R. Wise, Arthur Streeton, William Dobell, and Phil May, ca. 1888-1937

Letters received by Henry C. Gibbons (Director, Julian Ashton School), from William Dobell, 1960; and catalogue: Australian Art Exhibition of Norman Lindsay, Macleod Gallery, Sydney, 1937

Folder 3
Correspondence, being mainly letters received, of Julian Rossi Ashton, with George Rossi Ashton, Norman Lindsay, and Jack Passmore, 1928-1942

Letters received by Richard Ashton from his father (Howard Ashton), mother (Ethel Ashton), grandfather (Julian Rossi Ashton), Norman Lindsay, Rose Lindsay, Lionel Lindsay, Will Ashton, Charmian Clift, Ruth Park, Mary Gilmore, Henry C. Gibbons, George Patterson, Fred Williams, Alan Villiers (with obituary of Villiers), and Jack Noel Kilgour, 1925-1982

Correspondence, being mainly letters received, with Henry C. Gibbons,  Jack Passmore, with manuscript 'What is Drawing', Howard Hinton, and Irene Ashton, 1942-1951

Other papers, including minimal correspondence of other Ashton family members, enclosures and draft literary manuscripts

Folder 4 
Letters received by Richard Ashton from Howard Ashton, Julian Rossi Ashton, Wenda Ashton, George Rayner, Howard Hinton, Will Ashton, John Olsen, Malcolm Ellis, Geoffrey Dutton, Sir Erik Langker, Ann Dangar, Nigel Thomson, E. G. Whitlam, Alan Villiers, Justice Harry Bauer, O. L. Brett, Rene Nossal [?], Sandra Darroch, Suzanne Mourot, and David Thomas (Director, Newcastle City Art Gallery), 1938-1995

Other papers, including 'A Recollection', being a manuscript memoir by Jean Bellette; and letter from J. L. Treloar to Major Backhouse, 25 Nov. 1942, concerning Richard Ashton's allocation as a war artist to the Military History Section, L.H.Q.

Folder 5
Invitations and catalogies, some signed by Julian Rossi Ashton, mainly for art exhibitions featuring Ashton family members, Norman Lindsay, William Dobell, etc.; also includes membership list of the Australian Society of Marine Artists, ca. 1930-1999

BOX 2
Folder 1: Julian Ashton photographic reproduction/paintings
Photographs of Ashton family members including Julian, Rene, Bertha, Cedric and John Ashton, Rosalind, and Percy Ashton; also Sir Henry Parkes and W. A. Holman; also includes reproductions of artworks, ca. 1860-1940

Letters received by Richard Ashton from Nancy Sturgess, 1996

Folder 2: Julian Ashton clippings, photographs, paintings
Photographs of Rayner Hoff; Elioth Gruner; Robert Louis Stevenson, one by the Falk Studios, 496 George Street, and the other by Kerry & Jones, 308 George Street; Will Ashton; photographs of artwork, ca. 1860-1940

Copy of 'The black-and-white maestros' by Les Tanner, with details of and illustrations by Norman Lindsay, Ruby Lindsay, and Lionel Lindsay, from The Bulletin, Centenary Issue, 29 January 1980

Folder 3
Photographs of Norman Lindsay in his studio, statues from Lindsay's estate, artworks; copies of portraits of Julian Ashton, Henry Lawson, and bust of Norman Lindsay; also includes clippings of Norman Lindsay illustrations in 'The Lone Hand', ca. 1907-1956

BOX 3
Sydney Art School Students Show, 24th-30th Sept. [38 cm x 25.3 cm], undated

Photographs of Elioth Gruner by Rudolph Bucher, Julian Ashton by May Moore and others, George Ashton, ca. 1860-1920

Folder 1-2
Letter received by Richard Ashton from friends, Ken and Beryl at Ayres Rock, 1995

Papers concerning Richard Ashton's tour of duty as a war artist in New Guinea, being mainly illustrated letters to his wife, Wenda, with enclosed pen and ink and wash drawings, 1942-45

Letters received by Wenda Ashton from Richard Ashton, 1983-84; photocopied letters from Mrs Julian Ashton to her daughter, Bertha, [189- ]; illustrated envelopes, by Julian Rossi Ashton, 1901; and drawings by Richard Ashton, 1944, ca. 1988

BOX 4
Photographic portraits of Julian Rossi Ashton, some by May Moore and Harold Cazneaux, and of Howard Ashton, by May Moore;  and unidentified Aboriginal family in a tent, ca. 1860-1940

Ashton family photographs and papers, ca. 1860-1996

Photograph of the Selection Committee, Society of Artists, 1922, gathered around a painting being shown by Basil Burdett.

Selection Committee, Society of Artists, 1922

Contents:
i.   Photographs of original pictures by S.U. Smith, many reproduced in various publications
ii.  Photographs of Sydney Ure Smith, his family and his associates
iii. Etchings by Sydney Ure Smith, Lionel Lindsay, Norman Lindsay, Elioth Gruner, Berry Dyson, John Shirlow and E. Warner
iv. Sketches by Sydney Ure Smith
v.  A miscellaneous collection of reproductions, and sketches including a crayon study by Elaine Haxton

Photographs of original works by Sydney Ure Smith
1a-b. State Government House from the Astor 1945 (2 prints) - Plate on p,5 of Marjorie Barnard:'The Sydney Book'  
2. The Bridge from Vaucluse. 1943 - Plate on p.452 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'  
3a-b. Parliament House, Macquarie Street, from Federation House. 1944 (2 prints) - Plate on p.32 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'  
4a-c. Carthona, Double Bay 1947 (3 prints) Negative at FM1/384 - Plate on p.44 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'  
5. [Shark Island from Point Piper ?] 1949   
6. [Shark Island from Wollahra Point ?]   
7a-c. Tree (3 prints)  
8. Observatory Hill from Kyle House, 1932 - Plate on p.28 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'  
9. Clarke Island from' Neidpath', Darling Point - Plate on p.44 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'  
10. Shops, Darlinghurst Road, Kings Cross. 1936   
11a-c. Point Piper from Bellevue Hill 1946 (3 prints) - Plate 31 in Nester Griffiths' Point Past & Present'  
12. Old House, Millers Point 1944 - Plate on p.40 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'  
13. [Clark Island] 1937  
14. [Parliament House] 1933   
15. [Establishment of L.G.Price, builder, Phillip Street] 1945   
16. [Double Bay]   
17. [Old Mint, Macquarie Street] 1936   
18. [Potts Point, showing Garden Island]   
19. [Unidentified house] 1942   
20. [Unidentified Sydney Street] 1946   
21a-d. Double Bay from Princeton Flat, Edgecliff, 1943 - (4 prints) - Plate on p.8 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'   
22. [Sydney Heads from Wollahra?]   
23a-b. [Parliament House] 1945 (2 prints)  
24. [Old Mint Macquarie Street]  
25. Houses in Jamieson Street Nos.20 & 22 - Plate on p.34 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'  
26. [Landscape] 1937   
27. [Landscape] 1938   
28. [Landscape] 1937   
29. [Landscape] 1936   
30. Main Street, (Queen Street) Campbelltown. - Plate 2 in' Old Colonial By - Ways' by S.U.Smith & A.B. Bertie  
31. Barn, Ambleside, S.A. - Plate53 in Smith & Bertie: Old Colonial By - Ways'  
32. [Interior]   
33. [Trees & House]   
34. [Landscape] 1935   
35. [Landscape] 1937   
36. [Landscape] 1937   
37. [Hyde Park Barracks] 1943   
38. Old Houses, Princes Street - Plate on p.38 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'  
39. Old Houses, Miller's Point, 1945 - Plate on p.41 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'  
40. [Verandah of unidentified colonial house]   
41. [Bush Cottage, Campbelltown District, on the Road to Appin] - (cf. Plate 8 in Smith & Bertie's' Old Colonial By - Ways')  
42. Village street, Cobbitty - Plate 15 of Bertie & Smith's Old Colonial By - Ways'  
43. [Country Cottage]   
44. [Old Cottage, Cobbitty] - (cf. Plate 14 Smith & Bertie's' Old Colonial By - Ways')  
45. Yaralla, Concord 1937 - Plate on p.76 of Nester Griffiths"Some Homes & People of N.S.W.'  
46. [Trees]   
47. [Landscape]   
48. Farmyard, Ambleside, South Australia - Plate 52 in Smith & Bertie's:' Old Colonial By - Ways'  
49. [Unidentified Sydney street]   
50. Saint James Church, 1911 - Reproduced p.24 Bertie & Smith:' Old Sydney'  
51. [Landscape] 1938   
52a-b. City and Harbour looking East from Kyle House, Macquarie Place, 1932 - (2 prints) - Plate on p.7 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'  
53-54. [Landscape] 1938   
55. [Carthona, Double Bay]   
56. [Fig tree, Harbour front]   
57a-b. Point Piper from Darling Point - (2 prints) - Plate 30 in Nesta Griffith:' Point Piper Past & Present'  
58. [Shark Island from Point Piper ?] 1935 
59. Bee Hive Hotel, The Rocks, Argyle cut on right. - Plate on p.39 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'  
60. [Sydney Harbour]   
61. Garden Island & Potts Point, Macleay Street   
62. Rose Bay from Heights of Victoria Road, Bellevue Hill - Plate on p.9 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'  

Negatives of other original works
FM1/385 Harbour Bridge from Potts Point [Plate on p.36 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'] 
FM1/383 Hyde Park Barracks through Gates of Saint James' Church Plate on title page Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'] 

Family photographs, photographic portraits, photographs of associates
63. Carte de visite photograph of S.U.S. as a child 
64. Carte de visite photograph of man (taken in Venice)   
65a-b. Sydney Ure Smith & family (2 prints)   
66. Sydney Ure Smith as a child, with brother & sister  
67. Sydney Ure Smith 1930. Portrait by H.C.Krutli (signed)  
68. Sydney Ure Smith and Lionel Lindsay at Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Worcestershire, 1933. Photographed by H.W. Barrett. - Negative at FM1/387 
69. Sydney Ure Smith and Bertram Stevens & Lionel Lindsay - Negative at FM1/389 
70. Sydney Ure Smith as a young man - Negative at FM1/392 
71. Sydney Ure Smith and ........... ? - Negative at FM1/388 
72a-b. Sydney Ure Smith with Louis McCubbin, Vic Mann, Will Ashton & James Macdonald - (2 prints) Negative at FM1/386 
73. Sydney Ure Smith - Negative at FM1/390 
74. Sydney Ure Smith and ............... ?  
75. Sydney Ure Smith  
76-80. Photograph of 'Sydney Ure Smith 1887-1949' Memorial Exhibition held at David Jones Galleries, 1950  
81. Sydney Ure Smith, Portrait probably by Monte Luke now filed at P1 
82. Sydney Ure Smith  
83. Stanley Ure Smith. 1918  
84. Sydney Ure Smith. Portrait by H.C. Krutli  
85. Sydney Ure Smith and 2 women at an Art Show  
86. Stanley Ure Smith, Sydney's brother  
87. Committee of Selection for the Exhibition of Australian Art at the Royal Academy: Sydney Ure Smith, Hans Heysen, Howard Ashton, John Longstaff. W.B.McInnes, George Bell 
88. Katherine Ure Smith (Sydney's mother)  
89. John Ure Smith (Sydney's father)  

Extra negatives
FM1/391 Sydney Ure Smith

Etchings
90-92. Cuttings from various publications (including"The Daily Telegraph": The Bulletin"&"Steele Rudd's") of reproductions of etchings by Sydney Ure Smith, 1905, 1907 and no date   
93. Portrait of Sydney Ure Smith, by unknown artist  
94. Sydney Ure Smith - [Church seen through gate]   
95. Book Plate for Matthew Nathan   
96. Lionel Lindsay - [Beggar]   
97. Norman Lindsay - [Bacchanal]   
98. Elioth Gruner - [Landscape]   
99. Betty Dyson - Krishna & Radha   
100. Betty Dyson - Tandara Nrittya   
101. Betty Dyson - Kama Deva. 1st state   
102. John Shirlow - Saint Kilda 1918   
103. E.Warner - Sydney Medical School   
104. [Boats moored] 
105. [Boats beached]

Sketches etc. by Sydney Ure Smith
106. Page from diary dated 1902. Cuttings & sketch on one side 
107-108. Leaves from a diary dated 1897. Annotated cartoons 
109-113. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash 
114-130. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash (Unfinished sketches of his views of Sydney and country landscapes) 
131-137. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash 
138-145. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash (Unfinished sketches of his views of Sydney and country landscapes) 
146-147. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash 
148-149. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash (Unfinished sketches of his views of Sydney and country landscapes) 
150-154. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash 
155-158. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash (Unfinished sketches of his views of Sydney and country landscapes) 
159-167. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash 
168. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash (Unfinished sketches of his views of Sydney and country landscapes) 
169-171. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash 
172-175. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash (Unfinished sketches of his views of Sydney and country landscapes) 
176-178. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash 
179. Saint Luke's Anglican Church, Liverpool, New South Wales - Ink & wash 
180. Details of Sir Oswald Brierly's house, at East Boyd, Eden - Pencil annotated 

Miscellaneous
181. Beggerstaff Bothers - Design for Poster. A printed reproduction 
182. Sydney Ure Smith: - Saint James Church, Queens' Square. Butlers' Stairs Leading from Potts to Woolloomoolloo. Proof of reproduction in Sydney Book 
183. Invitation to Exhibition of Drawings & Etchings at Macquarie Galleries 17 November 1926 with reproduction of etching"Cumberland Street Hostels"by Sydney Ure Smith 
184. Elaine Haxton - [Studies of cats] - Crayon sketch 
185. V.A.Q. (probably cf. postcards from contemporary students in Sydney Ure Smith Papers, v.1) - Decorated envelope 
186. Decorated postcards from contemporary student 
187. V.A.Q. - The Incense. Also, a figure study


Contents list filed with collection

1a. State Government House from the Astor, 1945

1b. State Government House from the Astor, 1945

2. The Bridge from Vaucluse. 1943

Sketches, etchings, copy photographs of watercolours etc., and personal photographs, ca. 1900-1949 / Sydney Ure Smith

Howard Ashton, editor, Sydney Sun, 1922 / photo by Leighton Studios, 136 Pitt Street, Sydney

Julian Ashton, Waterhouse & Howard Ashton group

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Ashton family photographs and papers, ca. 1860-1996

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Selection Committee, Society of Artists, 1922

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Sketches, etchings, copy photographs of watercolours etc., and personal photographs, ca. 1900-1949 / Sydney Ure Smith

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Howard Ashton, editor, Sydney Sun, 1922 / photo by Leighton Studios, 136 Pitt Street, Sydney

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Julian Ashton, Waterhouse & Howard Ashton group

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