OF THE 1236 footballers - from Jimmy Aitken to Alex Cincotta - to have represented the club at senior VFL/AFL level since the League’s foundation season of 1897, all but 114 are represented by at least one photograph in the club’s ever-expanding archive.
That number has now been whittled down to 113, with the recent discovery of a photo of Herman Colin Bartlett, some 112 years after he last laced a boot and almost 60 years after his passing.
The photograph was sourced by Fitzroy Football Club researcher Brenden Campbell, whose interest in Bartlett was based on the player’s one solitary senior appearance for the Maroons in 1910.
Mindful that Bartlett played two senior games for Carlton in 1912 - the Round 5 match with Melbourne (where the latter was named in a back pocket alongside his playing coach Norman ‘Hackenschmidt’ Clark), and the Round nine contest with the long-gone University (where he was named on a wing alongside the centreman Rod McGregor) – Campbell forwarded the image on.
Campbell sourced the Bartlett image from a photograph of the Bunyip team of 1915 in which he featured – the Bulldogs having also earned the Central Gippsland Football League Premiership in that particular year. Campbell also managed to turn up an action photograph of Williamstown’s Vic Truman – a one game senior player for Carlton in 1920 and a ten-gamer for Fitzroy in 1926.
Below is the list of the remaining 112 Carlton players (and the years in which they played) who are yet to be represented in photographic form either in the Carlton Football Club archive or The Blueseum historical website. If you can assist with a photograph of any of the following, please contact tony.debolfo@carltonfc.com.au
AHERN, Bill 1897
ALLENDER, Henry 1899
ANDERSON, Charlie 1924
ARCHER, Joe 1899
ARMSTRONG, Bob 1896-1897-1898
ASHTON, Ernie 1904
BARLOW, Alex 1901-1903
BARLOW, Fred 1898
BENNETT, Ned 1900
BROWN, Charlie 1898
BUCK, Otto 1897
CAMERON, Bob 1897
CAMPBELL, Peter 1900
CHURCHYARD, Bill 1898-99
CLARKE, Len 1931
COUCHER, Jim 1898
COWELL, George 1899
CROWE, Matt 1903-1904
CULLEN, Jim 1904
CUMMINS, Arthur 1897
DASHWOOD, Rob 1902
DODDS, Bill 1901
DOUGLAS, Jack 1898
DUNNE, Henry 1896-1897-1898
EVANS, Harold 1913
FIELD, Frank 1901-1902
FROST, Jack 1897
GAYNOR, Jimmy 1904
GIBSON, Harvey 1906
GILBERT, Jack 1899-1900
GOMEZ, Frank 1901
GORDON, Vic 1915
GRAF, Bert 1919
GRANT, Bill 1906
GRANT, Jack 1906
GUNTER, John 1911
HAINSWORTH, Herb 1902
HANNA, Frank 1913-1914
HANSON, Tom 1911
HARDY, Willis 1917
HARRIS, Len 1946
HARRISON, Arthur 1914
HARRISON, Stan 1965
HARRY, Ray 1933
HART, Dick 1901-1902
HEARNDEN, Alf 1899
HEFFERNAN, Ted 1897
HOGG, Norm 1903-1904
HOLLAND, Reuben 1910
HOWARD, Harry 1897
HUGGETT, Alf 1916
HUGHES, Tommy 1911
JACKSON, Percy 1918
JANE, Henry 1911
JOHNSON, Bill 1912
JOHNSON, Roy 1911-1912
KEILY, Jack 1918
KENNEDY, Tom 1927
KICK, Ned 1925
KINMAN, Tommy 1898
LEWIS, Bill 1900
LEWIS, Harry 1899
LORIOT, Jim 1901
LOWENTHAL, Herbie 1897
LYONS, Jim 1897-1898
MANCHESTER, Oscar 1897-1898
MANGER, Bill 1926
MAPLESTONE, Charlie 1900-1902
MARDEN, Les 1944
MARRIOTT, Fred 1911
MATTHEWS, Jim 1900
McCART, George 1905
McFARLANE, John 1902
McGANN, George 1901
McKENZIE, Wal 1902
McNULTY, Pat 1902
McPETRIE, Henry 1897
McVEIGH, Bill 1905
MEADOWCROFT, Des 1898
MILLS, Bobby 1934
MOORE, Alf 1898
MORGAN, Harry H 1897
NEYLAN, Jim 1909-1910
O'DAY, Tommy 1898
O'HALLORAN, Gerald 1925
PATTERSON, Bill 1897-1898
PENDER, Dan 1898
PENDER, Mick 1898
PETTIT, Bill 1901
POWELL, Wally 1900-1902
POWELL, Harry 1901-1902
PRENTICE, Alex 1903
RAFF, Charles 1901
RAPP, Victor 1899
RAUBER, Charles 1912
REEKIE, Jack 1897-1898
REID, Sam 1897
ROBERTS, Simon 1901
Robinson Jimmy 1901
RYAN, Arthur 1904
RYAN, Pat 1913
SCHUNKE, Charlie 1901
SLATER, Jim 1905
STEPHENSON, John T 1903
STEWART, Charlie 1901
STEWART, Dick 1898-1900
STRICKLAND, Bill 1900
TAYLOR, Charlie 1911
WARDE, George 1898
WHEELER, Bert 1907
WHIGHT, Henry 1904
WHITE, Robert 1916