Guide to the Letters of Walter Bently Woodbury (as filmed by the AJCP)

Collection Summary

Creator

Woodbury, Walter Bentley

Title

Letters of Walter Bently Woodbury (as filmed by the AJCP)

Date Range

30 January 1852 - 1 September 1858

Collection Number

M1952

Extent

18 items

Language of Materials

English

Repository

Australian Joint Copying Project

Sponsor

The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.

Introduction

Scope and Contents

Letters written from Australia and Java, to his mother Ellen Woodbury (later Ellen Lloyd). They contain news of life in Australia, gold diggings in Victoria, establishment of photographic business in Melbourne, travels in Java, and photographs of East Indies.

Conditions Governing Access

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Preferred Citation

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Citation items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Archival History

Filmed at the Royal Photographic Society, Bath, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1985 (AJCP Reel: M1952). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

In 2002 the collections of the Royal Photographic Society were purchased by the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (now National Science and Media Museum). In Spring 2017 the collection was transferred to the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Existence and Location of Originals

Originally held at the Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England.

Now held by the Victoria & Albert Museum. For more information see Victoria & Albert Museum catalogue (https://collections.vam.ac.uk/).

Existence and Location of Copies

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2288108]. as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Related Materials

Copies of the collection of Australian photographs of Walter Woodbury in the Royal Photographic Society are held in the National Library of Australia and the State Library of Victoria.

Finding-aid Notes

This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2019. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.

Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.

Advisory Statement

Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this Finding Aid contains material and descriptive information which may be considered culturally sensitive and may cause distress, including names and images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. This Finding Aid contains terms that reflect authors' views or those of the historical period, but which may not be considered appropriate today. While the information may not reflect current understanding, it is provided in an historical context.

Subjects

Australia; Daguerreotype; Dutch East Indies; Dutch East Indies: photographs; Great Britain; Gold and goldfields: Victoria; Java; Melbourne, Victoria; Photographers; Woodbury, Ellen; Woodbury, Walter

Bibliography

Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 508, pp196-197.