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Title
Photograph album relating to the Cocos Island Wireless Telegraphy Station and the Sydney-Emden battle, 1914 / R. H. C. Green
Creator
R. H. C. Green
Call number
PXB 498
Level of description
fonds
Date

1914
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
913176
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 album (ca. 122 photographs)
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

R. H. C. Green was superintendent of the Cable and Wireless stations at Cocos Islands, then known as the Eastern extension, Workshop No.2. -- source: Mitchell Library correspondence file
Collection history
The album was purchased from the the son of R. H. C. Green, November 1970.
Scope and Content
Contents transcribed from partial written description by Associate Mitchell Librarian, October 1970. The original notes are with the volume and are sometimes in an unclear hand.

Not all images are described; for numbers omitted below, a photo exists without a description.

1. Emden wreck view looking forward [captioned photograph]
5. Germans coming ashore
6. Sydney [ship]
8. Germans in helmets. Rest staff, Cocos Is.
11. Germans
14. The Sydney fr. [from?] Cocos
17. Mast being chopped down [i.e. radio mast]
19. Probably a German training ship in vicinity at time
20. Sydney [ship]
21. German boats coming ashore
23. Wreck of Emden
25. Syd [Sydney] fr [from] shore
28. Germans
29. Germans coming ashore
30. Wreck of Emden
33. Part of radio [install.?] at Cocos
34. Landing party
35-36. [illegible] C. Is. [Cocos Islands]
37. Emden
39. Shore party
40-41. Germans
42. Staff of roof watching
45. Inside of radio station
46. German machine gun setup
47. Wreck of Emden
48. Inside radio st. [station] Cocos I.
50. Mast chopped down. 1st job when ashore
51-52. Cocos
53. Main radio mast chopped down
54. Install. [Installation?] at Cocos [overhead view of building complex]
55. Wreck of Emden
56. Germans pushing own supplies
57. Emden on rocks at North Keeling I. View showing port battery [captioned photograph]
59. [Loose photograph, inscribed on reverse:]"Cocos Nov 9th '14 The office after the Germans had had a go at it with American axes etc."
60. Staff
63. Salvage party visiting the "Emden" wreck [captioned photograph]
64. Cocos I. (Direction Is.) Pathway around the ocean beach [captioned photograph]
65. Staff Cocos
66. German training ship?
67. Germans standing guard outside huts
68. [Loose photograph, inscribed on reverse:] "Emden, The "Sydney" appears - the cable staff prisoners of war on Cocos Island Nov 9th 1914"
69. S.M.S. Emden on rocks 200 yrds from beach [captioned photograph]
70. Taken fr. Sydney [view from deck of Sydney]
72. Wreckage on island [radio station?]
73. [Loose postcard:] German postcard taken from one of them before they got them posted
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Description source

Contents list compiled from notes taken by the Associate Mitchell Librarian in a meeting the vendor, October 1970.
General note

Handwritten title on cover of album: "R. H. C. Green. "B." W'S (workshop 2)" [i.e. "B" Wireless Station (workshop 2)?]

Transferred from Pic.Acc.2064 as part of the eRecords project, 2011-2012
Digital order no:Album ID : 1064166
Attributions / conjectures

Mitchell Library correspondence file refers to "H. R. C. Green" but the album is signed "R. H. C. Green" on the front cover.
Conservation note

Some album mount windows are torn and creased; two loose photographs could be reattached (adhesive marks show original position)
Name
Emden (German cruiser)
Subject
Photograph albums.
World War, 1914-1918--Photographs.
Topic
warships
telegraph apparatus
radio stations
islands
prisoners of war
campaigns & battles
Place
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
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