Series 17 - Family, Portrait and General Photographs 1890s?-1985


Date Range1890? - 1985
ProvenanceEdwin Sherbon Hills
Description

Photographs of ESH and family, including a number of formal portraits. Also includes photographs taken by ESH in Europe and Northern Australia, as well as photographs relating to specific institutions, places, people or events, such as: the University of Melbourne; Wilsons Promontory; Relief Model of Australia; D.B. Asthana; Royal Society of Victoria; Royal Society of London; Unesco; China; Russia; Trikojus; Imperial College, London; India.


Inventory Listing

17-1 ESH snapshots and portraits

Black and white photographs of ESH varying from passport size to large mounted studio portraits. Includes: studio portrait, aged 7 months; studio portrait at approximately 3 years old, one mounted copy and one postcard; snapshot of young ESH annotated 'Show this to Doris. I am sure she will not recognize her husband'; snapshot in army uniform, labelled 'Seymour 1927'; mounted copy of graduation portrait; passport photograph labelled 'Egypt'; snapshot of ESH disembarking from aeroplane, labelled 'ANZAAS en route to Perth'; enlargements of ESH from photographs of Sri Lanka trip, September 1975, one labelled 'With Best Wishes from The Geological Society, University of Sri Lanka, Peradeniya Campus, 2nd September 1975' and 'Photo: Mr. Bas Van Riel'; formal portraits at a number of different stages in ESH's career.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1907 - 1975, mostly undated    Quantity 1.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-1 Box Number 41 Series 17
17-2 ESH - events

Black and white photographs of ESH at official ceremonies or other occasions. Includes: photograph of ESH after conferring ceremony, upon receiving his scroll of fellowship from Imperial College, London, in 1968; copy of press photograph showing ESH attending University ceremony, stamped from the Age.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-2 Box Number 41 Series 17
17-3 ESH - portraits

Black and white proof prints and negatives of formal portraits of ESH taken at Melbourne University. Also includes 35mm negatives of portraits of ESH and CDH.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date (presumably 1970s)    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-3 Box Number 41 Series 17
17-4 Hills Family

Copies of black and white portrait miniatures of various members of the Hills and Weller families, taken at photographic studios in London presumably in the mid to late 19th century (originals retained by Hills family). Some are labelled by ESH.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date (C19th)    Quantity 0.9 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-4 Box Number 41 Series 17
17-5 Grandmother, Sarah Hills

Copies of black and white portraits of ESH's grandmother, Sarah Hills, taken in studios in Melbourne and Ballarat, presumably in the mid to late 19th century (originals retained by Hills family). Also includes copies of: portrait with Sarah's sister 'Great Aunt Sherbon'; portrait of 'Great Aunt and Uncle Sherbon'; photograph of 'Auntie Sherbon boarding a ship'; photograph c1940s taken at Bonbeach of family group consisting of ESH's wife, CDH, their daughter Elizabeth, and his mother, grandmother and great aunt (originals retained by Hills family). Most photographs have been labelled by ESH.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date (late C19th? - 1940s?)    Quantity 1.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-5 Box Number 41 Series 17
17-6 Grandfather and Great-grandfather

Copies of black and white portrait miniatures of ESH's grandfather, William, husband of Sarah, and great-grandfather, taken at photographic studios in Oxford, London and Melbourne, presumably in the mid to late 19th century (originals retained by Hills family). All are labelled by ESH.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date (C19th)    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-6 Box Number 41 Series 17
17-7 Edwin S. Hills Snr

Copies of black and white photographs mainly of ESH's father Edwin S. Hills Senior (originals retained by Hills family). Includes: early studio portrait in sailor suit; class photographs from Cambridge Street School in Collingwood; studio portraits with his brother William, mother Sarah, and Aunt; portrait in early twenties; small snapshot labelled 'August 1946'. Also includes: postcard photograph of his brother, William, in army uniform; postcard photograph of his cousin Grace Watson, brought up by Aunt and Uncle Sherbon, on her graduation. Photographs and storage envelope are labelled with names and details by ESH.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1946, and mostly undated from late C19th.    Quantity 0.8 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-7 Box Number 41 Series 17
17-8 E.S. Hills Snr and Eva Blanch - wedding

Copy of photograph of the bridal party at the wedding of ESH's parents, E.S. Hills Snr and Eva Blanch (original retained by Hills family). Other members of the party, Martha Mobberly, Grace Watson (Sherbon) and Jack Gooly are also identified. Also includes copies of: two copies of a studio photograph of E.S. Hills Snr, Jack Gooly and an unidentified friend; mounted portrait of ESH's uncle, William Hills, killed at Gallipoli, in army uniform; group photograph of soldiers including William Hills, labelled 'Broadmeadows 26/9/1914'; group photograph of soldiers including William Hills, dated 19/9/14; small photograph of baby, Ida Bailey; photograph of headstone of George Thomas Sherbon, who died on 26 August 1893 (originals retained by Hills family). Most photographs and storage envelope are labelled with names and other details by ESH.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1890s - 1914, mostly undated    Quantity 1.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-8 Box Number 41 Series 17
17-9 Odd Hills photographs

Assorted black and white snapshots, labelled by ESH. Includes: his mother with his daughter, Elizabeth; a cat at 9 Dunstan Avenue, dated October 1938; two group photographs (one including a young ESH) taken on a camping trip between Cape Shanck and Flinders; Martha Mobberly.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1938, mostly undated    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-9 Box Number 41 Series 17
17-10 University Commencement, 1926

Black and white photograph of University Commencement hijinks, showing ESH, dressed as a gypsy, and other students in fancy dress at 'The Block' in Collins Street, Melbourne. Includes negative copies and an enlargement, annotated by ESH with the names of the other students, Trevor Kelvington, Milliken and R.B. Lane.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1926    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-10 Box Number 41 Series 17
17-11 Geology field trips

Black and white photographs, many taken on geology field trips during ESH's student days in the late 1920s. Most are labelled by ESH with locations, names and other comments. Locations include: Daylesford; Maldon; 1937 ANZAAS Congress, Auckland; Students Christian Union Conference, 1928, Adelaide; Benalla; Sorrento; Ararat; Lake Tyrell; Mount Dandenong (ANZAAS Congress, 1935). Those pictured include: Anne Nicholls; E.W. Skeats; Ray Suding; Betty Ripper; G. Baker; F.A. Singleton; Austin Edwards; P. Moffatt; M.C. Clayton; F. Keogh; G. Phillips; F. White; Rex Southey; R. Williams; F. Casey; Ned Madden; Stella Byrne; Jo Anderson; George Edwards; Moira Pye; Beryl Christie; Mysie Jensen; Coralie Skinner; Dave Thomas.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1927 - 1951    Quantity 1.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-11 Box Number 41 Series 17
17-12 Europe

Black and white photographs of Europe. Many are labelled and some are numbered (see negatives and index in 19/8). Includes: Mer de Glace; Mont Blanc; Rhone Valley; Paris Colonial Exhibition; Pompeii.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1929 - 1931    Quantity 0.8 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-12 Box Number 41 Series 17
17-13 Continent

Black and white photographs taken on the European continent in August 1930, particularly near Gerolstein, Lachensee and Lucerne. Many are of geological interest, including some on a field trip of the Deutsch Geologische Gesellschaft. Most are labelled, often with notes on geological features.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range August 1930    Quantity 1.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-13 Box Number 41 Series 17
17-14 Wales

Prints of views of the Welsh coastline, particularly near Rhossili. All are labelled.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-14 Box Number 41 Series 17
17-15 England - student days

Three black and white snapshots taken on geological excursions during ESH's study in England. One includes E.E.S. Brown, G.S. Sweeting and O.m.B Bulman, and is labelled, 'Dunton Green Sept 1930'. Also includes black and white photograph of ESH sitting in a haystack in Affington with Lionel Bull, Guy Gresford and Jack Cummins, while in the UK for the Royal Society Empire Scientific Conference in 1946.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1930 - 1946    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-15 Box Number 41 Series 17
17-16 UK and boat brip

Black and white photographs taken at various locations in the UK and on ESH's boat trip back to Australia. Some are labelled and all are numbered (see negatives and index in 19/9). Includes: Trafalgar Square; Windsor; Albert Hall; Sedgwick Museum; Tower Bridge.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1931    Quantity 1.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-16 Box Number 42 Series 17
17-17 IKONTA prints - return from UK

Black and white photographs taken on the trip back to Australia from the UK aboard the IKONTA. All are unlabelled, but some are numbered (see negatives and index in 19/9).

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1931 - 1932    Quantity 0.8 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-17 Box Number 42 Series 17
17-18 Black swan - Melbourne University

Black and white negative and enlargement of photograph of a black swan in the grounds of Melbourne University, showing the Old Medicine building in the background. (Negative is listed in negative book 19/9.)

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date (c1932?)    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-18 Box Number 42 Series 17
17-19 Field work by bike

Black and white photographs of ESH and CDH on a cycling field trip to Thornton, returning via the Acheron Way and Warburton. Includes: ESH and CDH with fully-laden bicycles; scenes in camp. Storage envelope labelled with details by ESH.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1932 - 1933    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-19 Box Number 42 Series 17
17-20 North Australia - war service

Black and white photographs taken at various locations in Central and North Australia while on war service. Includes: scenes in camp; other members of expedition. None are labelled.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1943    Quantity 1.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-20 Box Number 42 Series 17
17-21 Department of Geology and CSIR Mineragraphic Section

Black and white group photograph and enlargement showing members of staff of the University of Melbourne's Department of Geology and Mineralogy and the CSIR Mineragraphic Section. Also includes typed sheet listing names, positions and some other details of those in photograph. Labelled overlay sheet names all group members in enlargement: Neil Lyons; Leila Wilson; Arthur Gaskin; Frederick Singleton; ESH; Maurice Tattam; Frank Stillwell; Beryl Langham; Spencer Mann; Betty Green; Orlando Dutton; Gordon Bartlett; George Baker; Howard Hauser; Marion Johnson; Peter Crohn; Greg Cochrane; Austin Edwards; Arthur Wilcock.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1946    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-21 Box Number 42 Series 17
17-22 Wilsons Promontory

Black and white photographs taken at Wilsons Promontory of ESH, CDH and others. Includes: ESH, CDH with Crosbie and Lucy Morrison on a picnic; ESH with Dick Pescott; group photographs with those mentioned and others including Dermot Carey. Some photographs and the storage envelope are labelled by ESH with names.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date (1950s?)    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-22 Box Number 42 Series 17
17-23 Relief model of Australia - prints

Three sets of photographs relating to the relief model of Australia, consisting of one complete set of seven prints, and two of six and five prints (see 19/16 for negatives). Most have typed labels. Includes: visit of the Duke of Gloucester to inspect a section of the model on 4 December 1945, with Sir John Medley, Sir Charles Lowe, Sir Samuel Wadham, Gordon Wood; ESH and the completed model set up in the Part I laboratory of Old Geology, Melbourne University, with D.B. Asthana.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1945 - c. 1957    Quantity 0.7 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-23 Box Number 42 Series 17
17-24 D.B. Asthana

Three black and white photographs, two with enlargements, of ESH with a Colombo Plan student from India, D.B. Asthana. Photographs are stamped 'Dept of the Interior, News & Information Bureau' and numbered. One is signed by D.B. Asthana.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date (1950s)    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-24 Box Number 42 Series 17
17-25 Royal Society of Victoria - Antarctic Symposium

Copies of four black and white press photographs showing the Duke of Edinburgh's attendance at the opening of the Royal Society of Victoria's Symposium on 'Australia's Part in the International Geophysical Year in the Antarctic'. Includes: the Duke addressing the symposium, with ESH as chairman and the Premier of Victoria, Henry Bolte; the Duke meeting Sir Samuel Wadham and V.G. Anderson. Photographs are stamped from the Argus, one has been annotated by ESH.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1956    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-25 Box Number 42 Series 17
17-26 Royal Society of London - Tercentenary

Two copies of a black and white photograph showing the Queen and Prince Phillip at the Tercentenary of the Royal Society of London, held in the Albert Hall.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date (1960)    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-26 Box Number 42 Series 17
17-27 Unesco

Black and white photographs showing ESH and others at various Unesco functions. Includes: ESH with Lennart Mattsson in Djakarta; ESH in Madrid with Michel Batisse and Moller; Batisse with Luna Leopold; ESH as chairman of a Unesco meeting in Teheran; ESH and Sir Frank Dixey attending a Unesco dinner at La Barraca in Madrid, souvenir folder is signed by those attending. Most photographs are labelled by ESH. Also includes colour reproduction of a Persian miniature inscribed to ESH from S. Fatemi, October 1958.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date (1950s - 1960s)    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-27 Box Number 42 Series 17
17-28 Scientific Delegation to China

Two black and white photographs taken on the Great Wall of China during the visit of the Australian Academy of Science's Scientific Delegation. One is of ESH alone, the other is a group photograph of the Australian delegation, ESH, Mark Oliphant, T.M. Cherry, E.J. Underwood, together with some of their Chinese hosts.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1964    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-28 Box Number 42 Series 17
17-29 Russia, 1968

Five black and white photographs of ESH in the USSR in May 1968. Includes: three of ESH delivering a lecture, with V.E. Khain; two of ESH with D. Obruchev and Wiermarn, inscribed to ESH with New Year's greetings from Obruchev, 6 December 1968. Storage envelope is labelled with names and date by ESH.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1968    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-29 Box Number 42 Series 17
17-30 Trikojus Portrait

Two black and white photographs relating to the portrait painted of V.M. Trikojus. One shows Robert Menzies and Trikojus shaking hands in front of the portrait, both have signed the front of the photograph while the back is inscribed 'For Edwin & Doris / From Trik / as at Feb 22nd 1968' and stamped from the Herald & Weekly Times. The other shows the portrait and is signed and dated by Trikojus, 29-2-68.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range February 1968    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-30 Box Number 42 Series 17
17-31 Fellowship of Imperial College

Three copies of a black and white photograph showing ESH examining, with two unnamed others, his scroll of Fellowship of Imperial College, London, after the conferring ceremony.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1968    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-31 Box Number 42 Series 17
17-32 Madhya Pradesh, 1975

Copies of photographs by V.K. Shrivastava presented to ESH in a souvenir album after his visit to Madhya Pradesh in November 1975 (album retained by Hills family). Subjects and locations include: Imperial Sabre Hotel, Bhopal; Mandu Fort; Kajlidongri Manganese Mines (Jhabua); Raipur; D.B. Asthana; A.P.S. University Rewa; Rajniwas Rewa; Panna; Khajuraho; Dhubela Museum; Circuit House, Sagar; Kari Camp.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1975    Quantity 1.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-32 Box Number 42 Series 17
17-33 Relief model of Australia

Three black and white photographs of ESH inspecting the relief model of Australia, presumably at the Australian Archives repository in Brighton. One photograph shows him in a group with three others, including Tim O'Driscoll and probably Eric Heidecker (see 6/15).

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date (1985)    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-33 Box Number 42 Series 17
17-34 University of Melbourne - grounds and buildings

Black and white photographs of buildings at the University of Melbourne. Includes: a c1920s series showing the 'University whale', the Law School, Students' Union and National Museum, and Wilson Hall, all are labelled with captions and ESH's negative numbers; unlabelled photographs from 1971 showing the new Wilson Hall, the Union building, the Raymond Priestley building.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date (c1920s) and 1971    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-34 Box Number 42 Series 17
17-35 University of Melbourne - panoramas

Black and white wide-angle photographs of various views and buildings around the University of Melbourne, including: Union building; Old Geology; Concrete Lawns and Raymond Priestley building. All are unlabelled (see negatives in 19/14).

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date (c1970s)    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-35 Box Number 42 Series 17
17-36 University of Melbourne - ceremonial occasions

Photographs of ESH, CDH and others taken at ceremonial occasions of the University of Melbourne. Includes: newspaper clipping and copies of photograph from the Age showing the Queen Mother being presented with an honorary Doctor of Laws, ESH is in background; conferring ceremony in old Wilson Hall, stamped from the Age; presentation to ESH, stamped from the Age and inscribed 'With the compliments of Prof J. Bowman & Dept'; three colour photographs of conferring ceremony in new Wilson Hall, one showing ESH; CDH at official function; series (late 1960s) showing visit to the University of an unnamed couple, escorted by ESH, CDH, and Robert and Pattie Menzies, all are unlabelled.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date (1940s - 1970s)    Quantity 0.8 cm,
Inventory Identifier 17-36 Box Number 42 Series 17

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