De Villentroy family - photographs and papers of Albert Bellier de Villentroy, his daughter Marie-Celeste Launay and her husband Joseph Launay, 1886-1986

fonds

1886-1986

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs, Ephemera

62877

Textual Records - (manuscript)
Photographs
Ephemera

Albert Bellier de Villentroy (1876-1926), professional photographer formerly of New Orleans owned De Villentroys Studios at 80 Hunter Street, Sydney (1921-1925) and 214 Pitt Street, Sydney (1925). His daughter, Marie-Celeste (1906-198?) also appears to have worked in her father's studio and from 1931 to 1945 owned a cafe called De Villentroy's French Coffee Rooms at 31 Pitt Street, Sydney. In 1952 she married Joseph Launay (1901-1977) a seaman and baker.

This collection comprises 5 pictorial and 1 manuscript record series. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each series from this collection record.

English, French

Portraits of Marie-Celeste appear in: `Stage and Society' 3 Jan 1924, p.ii Location number: Q059/S Mitchell Library and `The Green Room' 1 Feb 1923, p.3 and p.22 Location number: MDQ792.005/2 Mitchell Library