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Missionaries of Civilisation the Commercial Recent Exhibition UMABulletin NEWS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE ARCHIVES HE HIGHLIGHTS of a recent exhibition held at the Leigh Scott Gallery in the TBaillieu Library on the history of tea, titled Tea: the global infusion, were two collections www. lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/archives/index.html No. 21, July 2007 of Chinese silk paintings from the UMA. These exquisite 19th century works were borrowed from the Strathfieldsaye Estate and Una Porter Collections for the duration of the Missionaries of Civilisation exhibition and were also used to illustrate the The Commercial Travellers’ Association of Victoria catalogue and posters. The Strathfieldsaye Estate Collection documents the Gippsland pastoral property EFORE THE ADVENT of that Clive Disher bequeathed to the University huge retail chains, and in 1976. The Disher family had owned this Blong before online com- estate for over a century and the bequest merce, commercial travellers included the extensive archive that documents rode the nation’s back roads, in detail the management of the property dusting off their sample kits during this period. in front of the keen eyes of storekeepers. Their work was Una Porter was a graduate of medicine more than a nine-to-five job from the University of Melbourne and — it was a lifestyle. Many youngest daughter of F.J. Cato, co-founder of would spend weeks away the grocery business Moran and Cato. The from their families living Porter papers include the personal corres- in hotels, mixing with other Please note: The Cultural Collections pondence of the Cato family dating from the Reading Room, Baillieu Library, will be open commercial travellers and on Saturdays for a trial period from 28 July 1880s as well as material related to Moran and drinking with locals. In addi- until the end of 2007. Requests for UMA Cato, and Porter’s own career and personal life. material to be used on a Saturday need to be tion to their valued merchan- placed by 4.00 pm on the previous Thursday. An online version of the exhibition dise they were carriers of gos- showing the full selection of the silks displayed sip and conveyers of news Above: Australia To-day, 1916, illustration by can be viewed at http://www.unimelb.edu.au/ from town to town. Norman Lindsay; left: Australia To-day, 1940, illustration by C. Dudley Wood. This image was culturalcollections/exhibitions/tea. Commercial Travellers’ used for the cover of the Missionaries of UMA Bulletin Associations (CTA) sprung up Civilisation exhibition catalogue. Editors: Jason Benjamin & Jane Ellen in each Australian state in the Left: Chinese silk paintings from the Strathfieldsaye second half of the 19th cen- Design & Layout: Jacqui Barnett Estate Collection; right: Images from a scrapbook tury, starting in South Produced by: Publications containing Chinese silk paintings, Una Porter Collection. Victoria will be presented in This exhibition investi- in Melbourne’s Flinders Street Information Services Australia in 1866. These University of Melbourne influential bodies negotiated the Leigh Scott Gallery at gates how a group of humble and was also influential in the University of Melbourne’s travelling salesmen developed forming a national United ISSN 1320 5838 special rates of accommoda- tion for their members, pro- Baillieu Library between such lobbying power that Commercial Travellers’ The University of Melbourne Archives vided substantial clubhouse 3 July and 5 October this they were listened to by gov- Association. When he died University of Melbourne, Victoria New collections/additional accessions 3010, Australia facilities, established sick year. Titled Missionaries of ernments and endorsed by the flamboyant Melbourne leave funds, mortuary benefits Civilisation, the show is drawn prime ministers. sculptor, Paul Raphael Opening Hours: I Malcolm Fraser I Melbourne University Classics Club and scholarships for members’ from the approximately 68 In part, the success of the Montford, was commissioned Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 9.30 am–5.30 pm I John C. Taylor & Sons (builders) I Zelda D’Aprano (feminist) Wed 9.30 am–7.30 pm children. In addition, they linear metres of Commercial CTA in Victoria was due to to execute a sculptural bust of I Ian Potter & Co. I Sat 11.00 am–5.00 pm Victorian Woolbrokers Association instigated social interaction Travellers’ Association the long-serving General him, and a copy was cast in I Bates, Smart & McCutcheon I Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Phone: +61 (03) 8344 6848 between members by hold- archival records held by the Manager and Secretary, James bronze for each state office. I Fax: +61 (03) 9347 8627 Yvonne Aitken (agricultural scientist) Union, Victorian Branch ing sports events, billiards University of Melbourne Davies OBE (1865–1931), Davies was also editor of I Nahum Barnett (architect) I Val Noone (historian) Email: tournaments and charitable Archives. The acquisition of who led the organisation for the pictorial magazine, [email protected] I Gretna Weste (botanist) I Food Preservers’ Union of Australia, functions. this significant collection was 45 years and effectively devel- Australia To-day which was an Victorian Branch Website: I Duncraggan Open Air Kindergarten An exhibition highlight- negotiated by the late Frank oped a cult of personality annual supplement to the www. lib.unimelb.edu.au/ I Craftsmen Press I Liberty Victoria ing the Commercial Strahan, University Archivist around him. He oversaw the monthly CTA journal, The collections/archives/index.html Travellers’ Association of from 1960 to 1995. building of palatial clubrooms Australian Traveller. continued page 2 8 UMA Bulletin, No. 21, July 2007 UMA Bulletin, No. 21, July 2007 2 from page 1 Sir Joseph Burke, Arts records reveal how inseparable were First published in 1905 continued this examination with essays new discipline, and one of the themes of Art History at UMA c.1975, unknown on Burke, Hoff and Philipp, and further Ben Thomas’ exhibition will reflect on his professional and private lives. (and printed annually until photographer In addition to the papers of Ursula 1974) Australia To-day had the (Sir Joseph Burke works are in progress. the manner in which these European well-defined objectives of Collection). In January 2008 the legacy of these intellectuals brought their unique Hoff and a smaller collection for Franz recruiting British immigrants pioneers of art history in Australia will sensibilities and traditions to the Philipp, the Archives also holds the NE EVENING in 1945 Daryl Lindsay, be celebrated in an exhibition curated by antipodes whereupon they each engaged papers of Professor Margaret Manion to populate Australia’s hinter- director of the National Gallery of PhD student Ben Thomas. The with local art and artists, including who succeeded Burke to the Herald land as well as supporting Victoria, and Sir John Medley, Vice- O indigenous art in the case of Adam. Chair; they include her personal exhibition will coincide with the 32nd Australia’s fledgling tourism Chancellor at the University of Melbourne, industry. Thousands were sent Congress of the International Committee When Joseph Burke took up his correspondence and material relating to were dining with Sir Keith Murdoch, when each year to British commer- her teaching and research. There is also Lindsay pointed out that there was no of the History of Art, the first to be held position as Herald Professor, his brief cial travellers’ associations and of art historians, critics, curators and gal- in Australia, indeed, in the southern was not only to create a department, but much material on the history of the training ground in Australia for the staff of development and growth of the to the offices of Australian lerists who are still predominant in their hemisphere. The exhibition will largely also to take art into the public sphere. art galleries and museums. Murdoch rose to Department of Fine Arts in other Agents General in London for fields, including three female professors: draw upon the archival collections of The Burke papers show the close the occasion and after only a few moments University records such as the Registrar’s distribution. The simple logic Jaynie Anderson, the current Herald some of the major figures from the Fine friendships that he formed with many hesitation offered to fund a Chair of Fine Correspondence, Faculty and Council motivating this project was Professor, Margaret Plant and Virginia Spate. Arts Department which are held in the members of the art world over 60 years, Arts at the University. Thus was Joseph minutes, administrative and student files. that the more populated Sixty years later there is great interest in Burke appointed the first Herald Professor of University of Melbourne Archives; these amongst them Daryl and Joan Lindsay, regional areas became, the Add to this that the records of art Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne in the legacy of Burke and the people he include the papers of Burke himself and Lionel and Norman Lindsay, Eric Thake, more lucrative it would be schools in Australia are currently being 1946, where he established the first depart- appointed to the Department of Fine Arts — those of Ursula Hoff, Margaret Manion, Russell Drysdale, John Brack and Mary for commercial travellers. sought and it seems that research into the ment of art history in the country. Burke had Ursula Hoff, Franz Philipp and Bernard Franz Philipp, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack Cecil Allen. A ‘clubbable man’, he However, what may have teaching of art and art history in a Master of Arts from London and Yale Smith, amongst others. In 2005 Sheridan and Leonhard Adam. The latter two founded the Society of Collectors in started as respectable oppor- Australia will provide fertile fields for Universities, had worked at the Victoria and Palmer’s PhD thesis, Intersecting Cultures: were sessional teachers in the Australia and belonged to dozens more: tunism became a spirited years to come.
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