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125386
  • Title
    Album of views of 'Thornthwaite', Dartbrook, N.S.W., approximately 1860-1869 / Joseph Docker and Judge E. B. Docker ; Floral album of Docker family portraits; small album of New England views, approximately 1900-1911
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXE 1088/Boxes 1-2
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    approximately 1860-1958
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    125386
  • Issue Copy
    Partly Digitised : 13 Thornthwaite images
  • Physical Description
    39 photographs - albumen photoprints - 25.0 x 17.5 cm or smaller
    1 album (79) - albumen photoprints - 29.5 x 24.0 cm
    1 album (87 cartes de visite and 11 cabinet card photographs) - 27 x 22 cm (album)
    1 album (12 photographic prints) - silver gelatin - 14.0 x 13.5 cm (album)
    1 folder (watercolours, paintings, clippings, ephemera, drawings, photographic prints and ephemera items (postcards), photographic prints) - watercolours, paintings, clippings, prints - 25.0 x 33.5 cm (folder)
  • Scope and Content
    PXE 1088/Box 1
    Item 1
    Album of views taken by Joseph Docker and E.B. Docker, approximately 1860-1869, of the Docker family residence, Thornthwaite, 11 miles from Scone on the Dartbrook River, N.S.W., as well as the Jamieson Valley & Queen's Cascade, Blue Mountains, Sydney Harbour views, Adelaide and New Zealand.

    Item 2
    33 photographic prints - mostly portraits and family portraits

    Item 3
    Folder of items that were loose in albums. Includes ephemera (such as postcards), small water colours and paintings, pencil sketches, pen sketches, clippings and a funeral notice of Charles Smith Hannington

    PXE 1088/Box 2
    Item 1
    Album of cartes de visite & cabinet card portraits and loose photoprints of Docker family as well as Tucker, Barker & Butler families, mainly photographed by Freeman & Co. and J. Herbert Newman, Sydney.

    Item 2
    Small album of New England views, approximately 1900-1911

    Item 3
    6 photographic prints wrapped in white paper. 5 are portraits 1 is of 3 people working

    Reference:
    'Our Artistic Workers: Mr Justice Docker', The Australian Phototgraphic Journal, August 20, 1908, pp.225-236. Location Number: DS 770.5/1 vol.17, General Reference Library (Photocopy available at PXN 893, Original Materials Reading Room, Mitchell Library)
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright:
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Related Material
  • Published Information
    No.1 (pp.12-13 The Dartbrook) reproduced in The Australian Photographic Journal, Aug 20, 1908 pp.226-227
  • General note

    Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.1349 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012
    Digital order no:Album ID : 846535
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Album No.1 "1869" on flyleaf of album
    Album No.2 "C. M. Docker June 25th 1881, from E. B. D." on flyleaf of album
    Album No.3 "W. B. Docker from M. R. B., 20-6-11" inside front cover
    Most photoprints are titled
  • Conservation note

    Floral album is fragile. 'Thornthwaite' album's back cover has detached
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