Brief description
The Richard McKenna Memorial Collection was created and bequeath to the WA Museum by Richard McKenna who was a steam engine buff and shipping enthusiast. The collection comprises: photographs (120,000), slides (60,000), shipping memorabilia (300), artworks (12), souvenir ceramics (50), plaques (200), flags (40), silverware (40), scrapbooks (60).Full description
The Richard McKenna collection was the result of a lifetime's passionate collecting, and by its scope and breadth has become a crucial part of the WA Museum's maritime collections and research. The images focus mostly on vessels connected in any way with Western Australia, and include McKenna's own images as well as those he traded with fellow members of the World Ships Society. The collection of resource material he avidly collected and compiled is extensive, including many rare published titles, personal correspondence and debates with experts around the world, large scrapbook collectons of contemporary newspaper material, and extensive personal transcriptions of rare records.Notes
Item descriptions, specifications, images, conservation & location history available through MHRD (WA Museum Maritime History department Integrated Collection Management System).Data time period: 1870 to 1989
Spatial Coverage And Location
text: Western Australia
text: International
Subjects
20th century |
Artworks |
Collecting |
Flags |
Lloyds Register |
Photographic slides |
Photographs |
Photography |
Plaques |
Richard McKenna |
Scrapbooking |
Scrapbooks |
Ship images |
World Ships Society |
ceramics |
coastal shipping |
maritime history |
pottery |
shipping industry |
silverware |
souvenirs |
vessels (watercraft) |
water transport |
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