Bert’s accounts on his arrival into NYC tend to vary according to whether he is writing it himself or telling to it to a journo… Here, he recounts once version of his arrival in New York 7 years later in the Lone Hand Theatre Magazine. He does acknowledge at the end of this bio piece, he may have got a bit carried away. He most likely wrote the piece on board a ship on his trip home to Australia.

The typical sketch work Bert would have been doing can be seen Siegel Cooper & Co. advert below. Of course, you would be allowed to put your name or initials to any sketch in a commercial sketch artist role like this.

If you click on the link above you may be able to read the whole paper…. if interested. The Free ‘Library of Congress’ LOC website holds many USA newspapers. Like Trove