Photograph album of Derby and station scenes associated with the Emanuel family
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- Type
- Photograph albums
- Date
- 1914 - 1916
- Place
- Derby, Western Australia, Australia
- Materials
- Paper, Photographic emulsion, Textile - non specific
- Collection
- Emanuel Family collection
- Accession number
- 2008.0040.0013
Description
A photograph album with green cover boards and dark grey card pages. Three printed red flowers, and "ALBUM" in voided black lettering are on the front cover. The album contains black and white photographs of various scenes in Derby and on Emanuel Brothers [cattle] stations in Western Australia, some of which are dated 1914-1916. The album contains several loose photographs, three of which appear to be more recent photographs of cattle in yards.
About the collection
The Emanuel Family collection comprises prize cups, medallions, cattle branding irons, office ledgers and equipment, maps and photograph albums associated with the pastoral activities of the Emanuel family in New South Wales and Western Australia. The objects in this large collection date from the 1860s to the 1960s and are generally in good condition. The Emanuel Family collection records dynamics of capital and power which drove the expansion of Australian pastoralism in the nineteenth century, and which maintained pastoral empires throughout the twentieth century. The Emanuel family pioneered the west Kimberley region in the 1880s. Solomon Emanuel, head of an established mercantile and pastoral family based in Goulburn, helped fund the expansion of the Durack family from Queensland into the east Kimberley. His sons Isadore and Sydney established a chain of stations across the west Kimberley. With Alexander Forrest they secured a monopoly over the live cattle trade between Derby and Fremantle. The Emanuel family sold their west Kimberley pastoral stations in 1984.
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