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Mitchell, Sarah and Mitchell, Catherine 1874 , Walter Shaw gets thrown in the bin , University of Tasmania Special and Rare Collections and The Royal Society of Tasmania, Australia.

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Abstract

Sketch from the scrapbook of Sarah E.E. Mitchell of Lisdillon on the East Coast of Tasmania 1874.

Sketch 47 taken 1874, by Catherine Mitchell, at hop harvest time at Lisdillon, depicts gentleman being thrown into a hop harvest bin.

In the Lower Hop ground Mayfield, Lisdillon East Coast, Tas. Mr Walter Shaw from Melbourne & Mr Edward Carr Shaw’s brother & who had two pupils in one eye, & Doctors had offered to buy it after his death. Three brothers one lost an eye, they were called on eye, two eye & three eyes (E.C.S. had two). Mr W Shaw said to Mrs Carn, throw me in the bin, & gave her half a crown. She said the Master says we must not but wait till he is gone away. She did then & said he was the only gentleman she had thrown in the bin! Caleb dog lying under it as usual. Mr B.J. Solly this side Mrs Walter Shaw; Kate, Amy & S.E.E.M – Father and his best friends Mr E.C.Shaw with their back to the bin. Mr Thos. Cruttenden was father’s other friend, acquaintance & friends are quite different he said to me once.

The sketches by Catherine Penwarne (Kate), eldest daughter of John and Catherine Mitchell (of Cornwall, England, who settled at Lisdillon, East Coast Tasmania in 1852) were made between 1860 and 1876, and portray aspects of 19th Century social and domestic life. Catherine’s sketches were compiled by her sister Sarah. E.E.Mitchell. Derived from her own collection, from those of friends and relations, and from John Ball, Kate's husband, they were compiled sometime between 1928 and 1933. The sketches are mounted in an album, together with: locks of Kate's hair on red silk; a pressed fern arrangement; a coloured photograph of John and Catherine Ball; and coloured views of Buckland Churchyard in 1850, showing the grave of Paul Thomas Mitchell, aged 3 days, and in 1879 showing the grave of Catherine Penwarne Ball. The scrapbook was bequeathed to The Royal Society of Tasmania in 1946.
RS 32/4

Item Type: Other
Authors/Creators:Mitchell, Sarah and Mitchell, Catherine
Keywords: Sarah E.E. Mitchell, Catherine Mitchell, Tasmania, Australia, social history, 19th Century, Lisdillon, East Coast Tasmania, The Royal Society of Tasmania, Hop ground, Mayfield, Mr Walter Shaw, pupula duplex, nicknames, Melbourne, Mr Edward Carr Shaw, humour, Mrs Carn, Caleb, Mrs Walter Shaw, Amy M J Mitchell, Mr John Mitchell, father, friend, Mr Thomas Cruttenden .
Publisher: University of Tasmania Special and Rare Collections and The Royal Society of Tasmania
Copyright Information:

This is an unpublished literary work created in the late 19th century. Copyright subsists in this item.

Collections: Royal Society Collection > Mitchell Collection > Sketchbook Collection
Royal Society Collection
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This material may be requested from the Library for research and study purposes as provided for in the Copyright Act 1968. For any further use permission should be obtained from the copyright owners. For assistance please contact Special.Collections@utas.edu.au

When reusing this material, please provide the following acknowledgement: “Courtesy of the UTAS Library Special & Rare Collections, The Royal Society of Tasmania, The Mitchell Family and The Plomley Foundation. From The Royal Society of Tasmania Collection RS 32/4”

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