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Collection of 26 photograph albums compiled by Herbert Young

Date1860-1966

Object numberANMS0029

NameArchive series

MediumPaper, silver gelatin print

ClassificationsEphemera

Credit LineANMM Collection

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DescriptionThis collection of 26 albums was collected by Mr Herbert Edward Young for Young's Maritime Museum. They were donated in 1972 to the Commonwealth Government for incorporation into a future maritime museum. The collection includes photographs, prints, drawings and postcards of sailing ships, steamers, tugs, ferries, naval ships and wrecks; photographs of lighthouses and an album of newspaper clippings.HistoryHerbert Edward (Bert) Young assembled a collection of maritime objects, books, papers, images and ephemera, and established Young's Maritime Museum from his home in Forestville, a suburb of Sydney, in the late 1960s. This private museum was short-lived and in 1972, Young presented his collection to the Department of Shipping and Transport to hold for incorporation into a future national maritime museum. The collection was transferred to the ANMM in 1987.