Janus: Views of Port Darwin Harbour and Gold-mining District

RCS contains:
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Y307I	A.P.G. Austin photographs of the West Indies 1902-1922
Y3081C	Postcards of Busselton, Western Australia 1925
Y3082A	South Australia. Views in Adelaide, Suburbs and Country Districts
Y3082B	Village settlements: River Murray
Y3082C	Six photographs of South Australia
Y3083A	Views of Port Darwin Harbour and Gold-mining District
Y3083B	Views on Mr C B Fisher's Northern Territory Cattle Stations
Y3084A	Photographs of New Guinea
Y3084B	Three photographs of Papua
Y3084C	Enlarged photographs of unknown New Guinea
Y3084D	Capt. A. Liston Blyth, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I., F.R.C.I., Resident Magistrate, Delta Division Papua and Native Constabulary
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Views of Port Darwin Harbour and Gold-mining District

Title	Views of Port Darwin Harbour and Gold-mining District
Reference	GBR/0115/Y3083A
Creator	Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias, 1831-1914, Inspector of Police and photographer
Covering Dates	Circa 1890
Extent and Medium	10 images; Generally good condition, although all are yellowing to some degree and have gum and paper adhering to the front of the mounts, where they have been removed from their frames.
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library

Content and context

Paul Heinrich Matthias Foelsche was born on March 30th 1831 in Moorburg, near Hamburg. At eighteen he enlisted in a German Hussar Regiment. At twenty-five he migrated to South Australia. In November 1856 he was appointed Trooper, third class, in the Mounted Police. Foelsche was transferred to Strathalbyn. He was appointed sub-inspector in charge of the new Northern Territory Mounted Police and took up his position at Darwin in 1870.

Ten mounted prints, uncaptioned and measuring approximately 205 x 140 mm. showing views of the harbour and town, and of the gold mining districts inland.

Presented (with Y3083B) by Mr. H.W.H. Stevens, of Port Darwin.

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Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Views of Port Darwin Harbour and Gold-mining District, Y3083A

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Indexed

This item level description was entered by NE and MJC using information from the original typescript catalogue.

This collection is available on microfiche: Australasia, fiche number 16.

Index Terms

Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias (1831-1914) Inspector of Police and photographer

RCS/Y3083A contains:

View of Port Darwin. 205 x 139 mm. A view of the harbour and town looking down from Fort Hill. The picture shows ships at anchor, and warehouses and boat sheds on the shore, with Government House on the hill overlooking the bay at the left of the picture. A similar photograph, also by Foëlsche, but probably taken at an earlier date, appears in Alfred Searcy's 'In Australian Tropics' (London 1907).
Creator: Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias, 1831-1914, Inspector of Police and photographer.

1890

The Wharf at Port Darwin. 203 x 137 mm. A view of the wharf curving out into the bay, with shipping moored at the end, and a railway line running along its length. The wharf was completed in 1887 at a cost of £70,000. The present wharf on the same site is called the Stokes Hill Wharf and is situated on the other side of Frances Bay to Fort Hill.
Creator: Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias, 1831-1914, Inspector of Police and photographer.

1890

Port Darwin Harbour. 205 x 139 mm. A view looking out towards Frances Bay, with Fort Hill at the right, and a road running across the foreground of the picture. Photographs 3, 4 and 5 form an overlapping panorama of Fort Hill (although taken at different times: a hut is present on the foreshore in Y3083A/3 but not in Y3083A/4).
Creator: Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias, 1831-1914, Inspector of Police and photographer.

1890

Fort Hill and Port Darwin Harbour. 205 x 139 mm. A view from a similar position to Y3083A/3, but showing more of Fort Hill with shipping in Frances Bay to the left. The land seen here below Fort Hill is the site of the camp of the first settlement at Port Darwin in 1869. Led by George Goyder, Surveyor-General of South Australia, this was the fourth attempt to found a permanent settlement on the north coast; the previous three had been dogged by all manner of misfortune, from bad soil and lack of water, to hostile native peoples.
Creator: Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias, 1831-1914, Inspector of Police and photographer.
Fair condition, overall yellowing and slight fading..

1890

Fort Hill and Port Darwin. 205 x 138 mm. A view showing part of Fort Hill and looking out towards the harbour on the west side of the point. In the foreground stands a white house with banana trees growing in the garden. With a steamer in the harbour.
Creator: Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias, 1831-1914, Inspector of Police and photographer.

1890

Fort Hill from the West. 201 x 136 mm. A view of Fort Hill from the west, and showing the westward side of the original settlers' camp site. With Government House standing on the plateau overlooking the port.
Creator: Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias, 1831-1914, Inspector of Police and photographer.
Fair condition, overall yellowing and slight fading..

1890

Gold mining district, Darwin. 201 x 137 mm. A general view of wooden huts and shacks among scrubland, exact location unidentified. From 1872 Darwin had several goldrushes, which continued off and on until the late 1890s. These were precipitated when gold was noticed in the holes that were being dug for the new telegraph system between 1870-1872.
Creator: Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias, 1831-1914, Inspector of Police and photographer.

1890

Gold-mining District, Darwin. 205 x 139 mm A view of an unidentified building, a store possibly, with horses, carts and aborigines standing in front. In the background a Chinese labourer can be identified by his hat.
Creator: Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias, 1831-1914, Inspector of Police and photographer.

1890

Gold-mining District, Darwin. 206 x 139 mm. A view showing wooden cabins standing above a small river.
Creator: Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias, 1831-1914, Inspector of Police and photographer.

1890

Men with horses and cart. 204 x 139 mm. A photograph of two men, one carrying an axe, standing beside a small wagon in front of a river or lake, at an unidentified location. The man standing at the left bears a considerable resemblance to the man standing at the right of the picture in Y3083B/1.
Creator: Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias, 1831-1914, Inspector of Police and photographer.
Fair condition, overall yellowing and slight fading..

1890