Collection Summary
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Grattan, C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley),
1902-1980
C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley) Grattan
Literary File Photography Collection
circa 1880-circa 1970
323 items (1.25 linear feet)
The collection consists of 324
pictures, including portraits of C. Hartley Grattan, members of his family, and
various other people, many of whom were distinguished figures in 20th century
Australia.
English.
Photography Collection
PH-02684
Acquisition:
Internal transfer(s) from manuscript collection(s).
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Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 324 pictures, including portraits of C. Hartley Grattan,
members of his family, and various other people, many of whom were distinguished
figures in 20th century Australia. Grattan was a professor at the University of
Texas at Austin who specialized in the history of the Southwestern Pacific. The file
also contains numerous views of Australia, including landscapes, cities,
agriculture, industries, and railways.
This collection forms a part of the Literary File Photography Collection, which is
comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of
literary figures, and generally include portraits and images collected by or of
those figures.
Additional material can be found at the Harry Ransom Center in the C. Hartley
(Clinton Hartley) Grattan Papers (MS-01700), the C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley)
Grattan Art Collection (AR-00103), and the C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley) Grattan
Personal Effects Collection (DA-00175).
Index Terms
People
Bryan, William Jennings,
1860-1925.
Grattan, C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley),
1902-1980.
Palmer, Nettie, 1885-1964.
Subjects
Indigenous peoples--Australia.
Trees--Australia.
Places
Australia.
England.
New Zealand.
Scotland.
Document Types
Albumen prints.
Landscape photographs.
Photographic postcards.
Photographic prints.
Item List
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 1
957:0128:0002
Image of a group of aboriginal women of New Zealand in
traditional dress, dancing in front of a building with an elaborately
carved façade; stamp of the New Zealand Herald, Auckland, on image
verso,
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 1
957:0128:0003
Full front bust portrait of Sir Patrick Shaw wearing spectacles;
inscribed on verso: Former Ambassador of Australia to U.S. / Sir Patrick
Shaw,
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 1
957:0017:0001-0056
Portraits chiefly of distinguished figures in 20th-century
Australia (and New Zealand?), including military, political, business,
and religious leaders,
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 1
957:0017:0057-0058
Photographic reproductions of a painting by John Weber of Captain
James Cook,
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 1
957:0017:0059-0061
Photographic reproductions of paintings of Henry Lawson
(957:0017:0059), Edmund Barton (957:0017:0060), and an unidentified man
(957:0017:0061),
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 1
957:0017:0062-0064
Photographic reproductions of painted scenes of life in
19th-century Australia,
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 1
957:0017:0065
Photomechanical postcard of a diorama depicting the Yarra Yarra
tribe of Australia,
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 1
957:0017:0066
Photomechanical postcard of a mess room used by Australian
railway workers,
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 1
957:0017:0067
Photograph of a group of Australian aboriginal men, one of whom
is playing a didjeridu,
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 1
957:0017:0068
Photograph of Australian aboriginal cave paintings,
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 1
957:0017:0069-0072
Photographs of Australian animals (a platypus, a kangaroo,
koalas, and emus),
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 1
957:0017:0073-0090
Scenic views of Australia,
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 2
957:0017:0091-0124
Views of Australia, including landscapes, cities, agriculture,
and industries,
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 2
957:0017:0125-0164
Views pertaining to the operations of the Victorian Government
Railways (of Australia), including interior and exterior views of cars
and stations,
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 2
981:0046:0001-0005
Snapshots of Grattan alone and with others,
1903-circa 1970.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 2
981:0046:0006
Snapshot of Grattan with 2 unidentified men (former high school
classmates?),
1950.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 2
981:0046:0007
Portrait of Grattan with an unidentified man (James Pollard?)
standing in front of a Karri tree at Pemberton,
1938.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 2
981:0046:0008
Portrait of Grattan as an adolescent boy,
1919.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 2
981:0046:0009
Portrait of Grattan as a baby,
January 1903.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 2
981:0046:0010-0012
Portraits of Grattan as a middle-aged man,
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 2
981:0046:0013
Portrait of an unidentified woman,
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 2
981:0046:0014
Group portrait of students at New Bedford High School (Grattan in
back row, third from left?),
1920.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 3
986:0030:0001-0010
Portraits of various people, including Grattan’s mother
(986:0030:0010) and other relatives,
circa 1880-1930.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 3
986:0030:0011
Image of Nettie Palmer with an unidentified girl,
circa 1928.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 3
986:0030:0012
View of a house at 9 Hayes Street, Framingham, Massachusetts,
circa 1908.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 3
986:0030:0013
Portrait of an unidentified boy seated on the lap of an
unidentified man dressed as Santa Claus,
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 3
986:0030:0014
Portrait of an unidentified young woman,
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 3
986:0030:0015
Half-tone print of a portrait of Henry Elmer Barnes, removed from
The Clark Year Book,
1922.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 3
986:0030:0016-0049
Chiefly portraits of Grattan, from boyhood through his later
years, both alone and with others,
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 3
986:0030:0050-0055
Portraits of William Jennings Bryan, including one signed
(986:0030:0055), one with family dated 1894 (986:0030:0050), and one
with prominent Chicago Democrats (986:0030:0052); also a portrait of an
unidentified woman (Bryan’s wife?) (986:0030:0054),
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 3
986:0030:0056
Photographic reproduction of a map of the world (except for the
polar regions),
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 3
998:0019:0001
Snapshot of an unidentified little girl with a doll and a stuffed
animal,
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 3
998:0019:0002
Portrait of an unidentified man (Grattan?),
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 3
998:0019:0003
Portrait of Grattan,
undated.
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Box 3
2010:0015:0001
Portrait of Alice Henry,
circa 1920.
Lit File OV Box, Small
981:0046:0016
Group portrait of 28 young men, Worcester, Massachusetts,
1923.
Lit File OV Box, Large
957:0128:0001
Mighty Gums of McFlinders,
undated.
Gelatin silver print
Grattan, C. H., Lit File Album 1
983:0018:0001-0081
Black leather album containing 78 mounted and 3 laid-in albumen
prints primarily of Scotland, but also containing images of England,
Australia, India, and unidentified locations. Many of the photographs
are by the Scottish photographers George Washington Wilson and James
Valentine. (The 3 laid-in prints, 983:0018:0079-0081, were moved to
Wilson, G.W., Box 4),
undated.
Index of Photographers
- Allied News-Photo--986:0030:0021-0024
- Australian News and Information Bureau--957:0017:0062-0063, 0067-0068,
0092-0098, 0102-0103, 0105-0108, 0112-0115, 0117-0119, 0120-0123
- Blackstone Studios--986:0030:0029-0031
- Brindle, W.--957:0017:0113
- Bushong, J. C.--981:0046:0016
- Byron, K. 957:0017:0121
- Ceitelis, Jack--957:0017:0102
- Cosneau, H.--957:0128:0001
- De Mirjian Studio--986:0030:0025
- Dyer, J. W.--986:0030:0007
- Eaton--986:0030:0005
- Edmonston--986:0030:0051
- Fitzpatrick, J. 957:0017:0122
- Frauca, H.--957:0017:0068
- Frith, Francis--Album 1
- Goulart, M.--981:0046:0008
- Green's Series--Album 1
- Herald Feature Service (Melbourne)--957:0017:0001-0002, 0005-0008, 0023-0025,
0030, 0032-0033, 0035-0044, 0046
- Home--957:0017:0099
- Litchfield, Philip A.--981:0046:0011
- Locke Studio--986:0030:0014
- Moore, May--957:0017:0026
- Mountford, C. P.--957:0017:0067
- Moyahan, D. J.--986:0030:0011
- Mrs. F. E. Russell & Son--986:0030:0001
- Murray, Neil--957:0017:0119
- National Portrait Gallery (London)--957:0017:0057-0058
- Ozolins, A. 957:0017:0103
- Pedersen, W.--957:0017:0095, 0108, 0112, 0117-0118
- Riley, Sidney--957:0017:0027
- Shmith, Athol L.--957:0017:0055, 0137-0138, 0140
- Smith, E. J.--986:0030:0002
- Stuart, F. G. O.--Album 1
- Sydney Mail--957:0017:0110-0111, 0124
- Sydney Morning Herald--957:0017:0099, 0110-0111, 0124
- Tanner, John 957:0017:0092-0093, 0096
- Terrill, R. C.--981:0046:0010; 986:0030:0032-0037
- Townsend--986:0030:0003, 0053-0054
- Valentine, James, 1815-1879--Album 1
- Vesie--986:0030:0006
- Victorian Railways--957:0017:0069-0091, 0100-0101, 0104, 0116,
0125-0164
- W. A. Government Railways 957:0017:0115
- W. A. Mansell & Co.--Album 1
- Walinger--986:0030:0055
- Wilson, G. W. (George Washington), 1823-1893--Album 1
- Wrightson, Hay--957:0017:0022