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Letters relating to business activities in Honduras. [PRG 174/82/3] • Mixed material

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Summary

A collection of 40 documents relating to George Fife Angas’ activities in Honduras, where he was active in the shipping and the mahogany trade in Central America.

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This image depicts Australian Aboriginal people or aspects of their culture.

Conditions of use

Physical description

Manuscripts
handwritten
typed
photocopied
Photograph (print)
black and white
Artworks (paintings)
oil
watercolour
Artwork (print)
engraving
Plans (township and property)
ink
Artefacts (boxes/trunks)
wood
Artefact (lock of hair)
human hair
Electronic files
text
Microfilm
35mm
31 volumes, approximately 5,000 sheets, 2 plans, 1 photograph, 3 artworks, 5 electronic files (digital copies of letters), 2 wooden trunks ; 4.4 metres

Dates / Publication details

1820-1842

Creator

Angas, George Fife

Collection

Part of Early Experiences in Australasia Collection

Subject

Angas, George Fife, 1789-1879
Angas, Caleb, 1743-1831
Angas (Family)
South Australian Company
Union Bank of Australia
Germans -- South Australia
Lumber trade -- Honduras
Wheal Barton Mine (S.A.)
Australia -- Federation
South Australia -- Colonization
New Zealand -- Colonization

Catalogue record

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General notes

See also PRG 175 for papers of the Angas Family, and BRG 385 for papers relating to George Fife Angas' business dealings with Joseph Keynes & Co.

PRG 174/81-96:

Part of a collection purchased by the State Library in 2015 also including PRG 175/8-20 (Angas Family) and BRG 385 (Joseph Keynes & Co.).

PRG 174/4-6 [reel 10] has index at the end of the reel. PRG 174/13-14 [reel 17] has index at end of reel but index corresponds with letters etc. which are probably on reel 16.

George Fife Angas' copies of George French Angas' 1842 book "A Ramble through Malta and Sicily" and his own copy of 1843 Lloyd's Register of Shipping given to Angas Collection of published works.

Three letters in series 1 were not microfilmed: extracts from a letter by Hermann Koch, a German emigrant on the 'Zebra' in 1838, to Captain Hahn at Hamburg, written 17 November 1841 (series 1/1863-1864); extract of a letter from Rev August Kavel, 4 December 1841 (series 1/1869-1870); and a letter written by August Kavel to G.F. Angas, 9 December 1841 (series 1/1877-1878). Copies have been made of these letters and can be requested via an archivist to be read in the Reading Room.

Early Experiences in Australasia Collection previously known as Alexander Street Press Collection.

Local notes

Contains Aboriginal content

Historical information

Australian Dictionary of Biography entry:

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/angas-george-fife-1707

Digitisation information

Date

23/03/2016

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

5,326 x 7,696 pixels (41.0 MP)

Size

123.04 MB

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