Series 3: Nola Dekyvere and Black & White Committee pictorial material, ca. 1930-1990

PXE 750/vol. 2

series

ca. 1930-1990

Graphic Materials, Photographs

402533

173 photographic prints
61 proof sheets
156 transparencies - colour
8 negatives

NOLA DEKYVERE Collection:
Portraits of Nola Dekyvere and various events with dignitaries and personalities including: Bill McCrea (owner of Speedo), Elsa Jacoby, Bill Baillieu, Florence Vincent [Lady Packer], Jannetta Minter, Blake & Pam Pelly, Robert Dickerson, Ray Miland, Pat Coppleson, June Massey, George Bloomfield (G.I.A. Ltd), Wendy Boulden, Eve Crossing, Hazel Phillips
Photographs removed from albums: Nola & Celebrities including Bob Hope, Maurice Chevalier, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Gene Batty, Ron Randell, Sir Eric Woodward, Alfred Hitchcock, Mrs Ronnie Parr, Reg Bettington, Mr & Mrs Trevor Clark, Sir Kenneth Street, Ernest Turnbull, Carry Creighton, William Orr, Lord Mayor Jensen, Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra, Harold Holt, Alexis Albert, Zara Holt. Plus snapshots taken at the opening of 'The Five Pennies', Prince Edward Theatre, 1959, with Danny Kaye as special guest.

BLACK & WHITE COMMITTEE Collection:
Photographs, proofsheets and colour transparencies used as research for the 'Belles of the Ball' exhibition, State Library of New South Wales, 1997 (Most belonging to Fairfax Photo Library)
Also photographs of Vivien Leigh and Robert Helpmann at 'Gone with the Wind' film evening, St. James Theatre, 1961

Photographs chiefly taken for newspapers and magazines by Australian Consolidated Press and Fairfax
A listing of Black & White Committee functions held 1937-1966 is available at Mitchell Library location number: PXn 933.

Belles of the Ball : 60 years of The Black and White Committee - State Library of New South Wales (19 August, 1996 - 9 February, 1997)
Vive la difference! : the French in NSW - State Library of New South Wales (June 2004 - October 2004). Applies to: No.7