• Title
  Photographs of Miles Franklin, c. 1879-1954
• Call number
  PX*D 250 (v.1)
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  c. 1879-1954
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  431966
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : 30 items digitised
  
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 175 photoprints, chiefly silver gelatin - 23 x 31 cm. or smaller - many mounted, all are hinged into 2 albums. Some images have foxing, or silvering. Some duplicates
  
• Scope and Content
  Images of Franklin as a baby, a child at school and with her family at home. Studio portraits as a young woman and adult.
  Scenes of Franklin on horseback and with various animals including a monkey. Scenes of travel with friends and a visit to an unidentified Aboriginal camp. Some shots of Franklin with literary friends such as Percy Stephensen and Frank Clune
• System of arrangement
  Chronological
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  Most images identified on borders of mounts or on reverse
  Some images dated
  Names of various photographic studios stamped on reverse including H. Krueger, Siberts Photo Studio, York Studio Goulburn, Ideal Portrait Co., Hy Dorner Goulburn, F.W. Curtiss, Coles Studio, Crown Studios, Swanston Street Talma, Swiss Studios Sydney, Yeoman & Co., Spencers, Minex Photos, Moviettes, Freelance Photo Service.
  
  Many photographs have been displayed during 1982 and 1988 for the Miles Franklin Award.
  
  Photographs were re-housed in March 2019.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824116
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  S.M. Franklin Estate 1958 -- stamped on reverse
• Name
  Clune, Frank, 1893-1971
  Stephensen, P. R. (Percy Reginald), 1901-1965
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  Infants--Photographs.
  Franklin, Miles, 1879-1954.
  Portraits.
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  camels
  families
  geography & travel
  horses
  monkeys
  
• Place
  Grenfell (N.S.W.)
  Oodnadatta (S. Aust.)
  Wentworth (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Miles Franklin: a Brilliant Career? - State Library of New South Wales (1 March - 13 June, 2004)
  Great collections - Museums & Galleries NSW (December 2008 - August 2009). Applies to: ff. 8-9 : Ballarat and Albury venues
  The work of art - Australian women writers and artists - State Library of New South Wales (August 1995 - February 1996). Applies to: ff. 8-9, 24, 65, 98, 154, 174-5
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3250403

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