Nichols Collection of photographs of ships

PXA 1152

fonds

approximately 1900-1931

Graphic Materials, Photographs

825719

Microfilm : See Contents for 3 vols. filmed in July 1999.

67 albums (approximately 6600 photographic prints) - mainly silver gelatin photoprints, also includes printed images of ships - various sizes

Douglas Roy Nichols was a master of the Ivanhoe Grammar School in Victoria. Although not connected in any way with a seafaring life the collecting of material concerning ships and the sea was his special hobby. He died in 1931 at the age of 39. The collection includes sailing and steamships of all overseas lines associated with Australia, whaling ships, steamships in New Zealand trade, New South Wales coasters, Australian river steamers and Hobart hookers. Although the majority of the photographs have been labelled by Mr Nichols, some, due to the sudden death of Mr Nichols are still unidentified. Those identified are listed in an alphabetical index compiled in the Mitchell Library in 1952.

References:
Index to the Nichols Collection / compiled in the Mitchell Library, 1952

VOLUME 1: Ships (Issue microfilm: CY 3986, frames 1-105)
VOLUME 2: Ships
VOLUME 3: Merchant ships
VOLUME 4: Sailing ships (Issue microfilm: CY 3987, frames 1-71)
VOLUME 5: Sailing ships (Issue microfilm: CY 3987, frames 72-145)
VOLUME 6: Sailing ships
VOLUME 7: Sailing ships
VOLUME 8: Sailing ships - shipwrecks
VOLUME 9: Sailing ships
VOLUME 10: Sailing ships
VOLUME 11: Sailing ships
VOLUME 12: Sailing ships
VOLUME 13: Sailing ships
VOLUME 14: Tall ships
VOLUME 15: Tall ships
VOLUME 16: Training ships
VOLUME 17: Troop ships
VOLUME 18: Sailing ships
VOLUME 19: Sailing ships – Fore & AFT Rigs
VOLUME 20: Sailing ships – Fore & AFT Rigs
VOLUME 21: Steam ships
VOLUME 22: Converted ships
VOLUME 23: Whaling ships
VOLUME 24: Steamships
VOLUME 25: Steamships
VOLUME 26: Steamships
VOLUME 27: Union line
VOLUME 28: Steamships
VOLUME 29: Steamships
VOLUME 30: Steamships
VOLUME 31: Orient lines
VOLUME 32: Un-named volume (Missing from shelf)
VOLUME 33: Steamships
VOLUME 34: Steamships
VOLUME 35: Steamships
VOLUME 35A: Steamships – TAS & S.N.C.
VOLUME 36: Hobart Hookers
VOLUME 37: Liverpool Limejuicers – Welsh counties
VOLUME 38: Un-named volume
VOLUME 39: Glasgow ships – shires, banks, cities &
VOLUME 40: Golden fleece clippers – Clyde ships
VOLUME 41: Sailing ships
VOLUME 42: Nitrate carriers – German ships
VOLUME 43: Bounty earners – French ships
VOLUME 44: Devitt & Moore’s vessels – London ships
VOLUME 45: Alaskan stars, Blue nose & Yankee ships
VOLUME 46: Sea traders
VOLUME 47: Small craft
VOLUME 48: Ship prints
VOLUME 49: Ship prints
VOLUME 50: Sail 2
VOLUME 51: Sail 3
VOLUME 52: Sail 4
VOLUME 53: Un-named
VOLUME 54: Anchor
VOLUME 55: Sail – J. Spurling
VOLUME 56: Sail – J. Spurling
VOLUME 57: Sailing ships
VOLUME 58: White Star Line
VOLUME 59: R.M.S.P. Co.
VOLUME 60: Nichols collection of books on shipping
VOLUME 61: New Zealand Steamship Co.
VOLUME 62: Aberdeen Line
VOLUME 63: Orient Line
VOLUME 64: Union-Castle Mail S.S. Co. Ltd.
VOLUME 65: Union Steam Ship Co. of New Zealand
VOLUME 66: Nichols enlargements
VOLUME 67: Typical Australian coasters

Grouped by types of ships

For further information on D.R. Nichols please see An 49 (includes biographical information and a photograph). Volume 35A is yet to be indexed and very few items in volume 16 have been named and listed.
On receipt of the collection it was noted that some images had been removed from some albums, Mr Nichols re-arranged the pictures into other albums.

Transferred from the Mitchell Printed Books Collection, 'Nichols Collection', August 2008

The Nichols Collection of printed books received with this photographic collection is housed separately in the Mitchell Library.

Titles, place names and other information on some prints