Photographs, c.1865-1950s

Component identifier:

Series 10

Content Summary:

Most of the photographs in the Hughes papers are in this series. The remainder are in Series 1 (enclosures to some general correspondence), Series 22, Series 23, Series 24, and Series 35 (photographs taken on overseas trips), Series 28 (file on 1917 elections), Series 40 (1938 New Guinea trip), Series 46 (Advisory War Council meeting), and Series 48 (Indonesian and Northern Territory files).

This series contains albums and loose photographs of Hughes, his wives, and children (particularly Helen) and group photographs of a meeting of the Lyons Cabinet, the Novars, the visiting French Mission to Australia, Hughes' visit to Western Australia and Moreton Bay (1922), the sinking of the Emden (1914), and Australian exhibits of the British Empire Exhibition (1924). There are also a number of postcards from overseas countries such as England, France and Gibraltar.

The majority of the photographs in the series are undated and do not contain any caption details. A small number of them have been digitised and can be found in the Library's Pictures Catalogue.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The W. M. Hughes Papers were presented to the National Library of Australia by Dame Mary Hughes in 1953. The collection was received in two consignments. One consisted of papers taken from the Perpetual Trustee Company comprising material from Hughes' Lindfield home and from his office rooms at the Commonwealth Offices, Sydney; the other came directly from Lindfield. Lists of the contents of both consignments are held in the Library's Manuscript Branch. With the agreement of the executors and the Library, much of the collection, was for a time, held at the Australian National University by Fitzhardinge. He was permitted sole access to the collection while writing the biography Hughes commissioned in 1951. Fitzhardinge's own papers documenting the writing of the biography are also held by the Library (MS 5400). The papers transferred to the Library in 1953 are by no means the total collection of Hughes' personal papers, although it is impossible to say what proportion has survived. (see Fitzhardinge, p.936).

Names:

Hughes, W. M. (1862-1952)

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