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Maritime transport

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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Album of photographs taken on the British Association for the Advancement of Science trip to Australia, 1914, 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/SEW/4/2/2
Scope and Contents Front cover marked 'Photographs taken by members of the British Association, Prof. Seward, Dr Lauder'. Photographs include: T.S.S. Euripides in dock; multiple photographs of members of the trip on deck; Cape Town; Soerabaya, Java; Chinese temple, Penang; the Three Sisters and Blue Mountains (Australia) and the Ainsworth Royal Hotel, Mirrool; group photograph of British Association delegates (including Prof. and Mrs [Marion] Seward) on deck on the Euripides; large group of ostriches...
Dates: 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Open to researchers. The majority of the collection is available in digital form only. Publication requests to be approved by the family.
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Colour Diary of watercolours from voyage to the British Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Australia, 1914-07 - 1914-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/SEW/4/3/1
Scope and Contents Marion was a talented artist and accompanied her husband to the Australian conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1914, painting a 'Colour Diary' of 160 watercolours recording their destinations on the four month voyage (during which time the First World War broke out). Includes photographic portrait of Marion, 1923, and watercolours of the following (various views of each and others included, plus several sunsets and sea views): Plymouth; Tenerife; Cape...
Dates: 1914-07 - 1914-11
Conditions Governing Access: Open to researchers. Permission from the family needed for publication requests.