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431585
  • Title
    Family and holiday album, 1899-1908 / photographed by Arthur D. Whitling
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXE 917
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1899-1908
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    431585
  • Issue Copy
    Partly Digitised : 1 photograph
  • Physical Description
    1 album (383 toned silver gelatin printing-out paper photoprints) - 28 x 38 cm.
  • Scope and Content
    Contains portraits of family, friends and pets, often in elaborate or staged poses. Covers family picnics, weddings, holidays. Also shooting trips, cricket matches and boat races, scenes of ships, harbours and coastal and country views. Image of the Motosacoche motorcycle, designed in 1899. Locations include Sydney beaches and suburbs, incl. Callan Park Mental Hospital, South Coast incl. Wollongong, Stanwell Park, Jamberoo, Kiama, Royal National Park. Blue Mountains incl. Wentworth Falls. Parramatta, Cox's, Lane Cove, Brisbane and Hawkesbury Rivers, various waterfalls and the family residences "Earlsholme" and "Glenferrie". Also scenes of Brisbane, Townsville and Cairns, Qld.
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Created before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • General note

    Whitling had access to Callan Park in his capacity as clerk at the Master of Lunacy Dept. (Notes from ML file)
    Digital order no:a862001
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Images identified and some are dated in album margins
  • Conservation note

    Spine detached from album, page 1 is loose
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