NED KELLY and others, Collection of 164 Lantern slides, contained in 3 wooden storage boxes, Magic Lantern by Johnsons of Hendon The collection comprises 28 mainly Australian Landscapes; 59 captioned 'Robbery under Arms', relating to several Bushrangers; 77 captioned 'Ned Kelly Slides'. A complete list is available. The 77 Ned Kelly slides, some hand-tinted, depict the life and times of Kelly and his gang and contain some RARE EXAMPLES. The collection is highly eclectic, built up from diverse picture sources including engravings from the Australasian Sketcher and Illustrated Australian News of 1880, Picturesque Atlas of Australasia of 1888, stills from the 1906 Kelly Gang film, line drawings by McCrae from C. H. Chomley's True Story of the Kelly gang , 1900 and some photographs copied from J. J. Kenneally's Complete Inner History of the Kelly Gang 1929. A few copied photographs and captions appear to date from the 1940's. No. 4 is captioned 'Kelly Home' and depicts a homestead of vertical slab construction with a bark roof (The Kelly homestead built in 1877 was of horizontal slab construction). It is possible, though unlikely, that the photograph represents the earlier Kelly home on the same block of land. Slide no. 63 'Lock-up' remains unidentified. Several examples are very rare, including a screened reproduction of Jefferson, the Jerilderie postmaster, a photograph of the Royal Mail Hotel at Jerilderie (some years after the Kelly hold-up), photographic views of Euroa and Jerilderie (probably at a later period) and an important photograph of a train at Glenrowan station from the hillside above the site of the Glenrowan Inn. The most important item in the Kelly collection is no. 46, 'Kelly hut in the ranges', a dot-etch reproduction of a photograph of the Kelly hut at Bullock Creek. This was a fortified log hut on the site of the Kelly gold mine which was being worked by Ned and Dan Kelly and various friends after the mysterious wounding of Constable Fitzpatrick in April 1878. The Kelly brothers were here with Joe Byrne and Steve Hart when a party of four police from Mansfield made camp at Stringybark Creek, scarcely more than a kilometre away, prior to the tragic gunfight of 26 October 1878 in which three police died. The reproduction of the photograph copied for this slide is clearer than the version reproduced by McMenomy Ned Kelly, the authentic illustrated story and Jones Ned Kelly: A short life .
NED KELLY and others, Collection of 164 Lantern slides, contained in 3 wooden storage boxes, Magic Lantern by Johnsons of Hendon The collection comprises 28 mainly Australian Landscapes; 59 captioned 'Robbery under Arms', relating to several Bushrangers; 77 captioned 'Ned Kelly Slides'. A complete list is available. The 77 Ned Kelly slides, some hand-tinted, depict the life and times of Kelly and his gang and contain some RARE EXAMPLES. The collection is highly eclectic, built up from diverse picture sources including engravings from the Australasian Sketcher and Illustrated Australian News of 1880, Picturesque Atlas of Australasia of 1888, stills from the 1906 Kelly Gang film, line drawings by McCrae from C. H. Chomley's True Story of the Kelly gang , 1900 and some photographs copied from J. J. Kenneally's Complete Inner History of the Kelly Gang 1929. A few copied photographs and captions appear to date from the 1940's. No. 4 is captioned 'Kelly Home' and depicts a homestead of vertical slab construction with a bark roof (The Kelly homestead built in 1877 was of horizontal slab construction). It is possible, though unlikely, that the photograph represents the earlier Kelly home on the same block of land. Slide no. 63 'Lock-up' remains unidentified. Several examples are very rare, including a screened reproduction of Jefferson, the Jerilderie postmaster, a photograph of the Royal Mail Hotel at Jerilderie (some years after the Kelly hold-up), photographic views of Euroa and Jerilderie (probably at a later period) and an important photograph of a train at Glenrowan station from the hillside above the site of the Glenrowan Inn. The most important item in the Kelly collection is no. 46, 'Kelly hut in the ranges', a dot-etch reproduction of a photograph of the Kelly hut at Bullock Creek. This was a fortified log hut on the site of the Kelly gold mine which was being worked by Ned and Dan Kelly and various friends after the mysterious wounding of Constable Fitzpatrick in April 1878. The Kelly brothers were here with Joe Byrne and Steve Hart when a party of four police from Mansfield made camp at Stringybark Creek, scarcely more than a kilometre away, prior to the tragic gunfight of 26 October 1878 in which three police died. The reproduction of the photograph copied for this slide is clearer than the version reproduced by McMenomy Ned Kelly, the authentic illustrated story and Jones Ned Kelly: A short life .
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