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404123
  • Title
    Ward family collection : family photograph albums
  • Call number
    PXD 820 (v.1-14)
  • Level of description
    series
  • Date

    ca. 1884-1960
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    404123
  • Physical Description
    14 albums (approx. 1870 photographs)
  • Scope and Content
    Vol.1 ca. 1884-1925. Includes signed portraits to various members of the Ward family of actors and friends; Series of photographs of the swimming pool at the family home `Bellevue', Potts Point
    Vol.2 ca. 1897-1913. Family photographs in U.S.A., Australia and New Zealand, includes ms index
    Vol.3 ca. 1899-1926. Includes portraits of actors; Hugh Ward Co. street collection scheme for children's hospital, New Zealand 1909-1910; Belgium Day 1915; group portrait of American Fleet nurses with Mrs Ward, 1925
    Vol.4 ca. 1900-1920. Family photographs including the family home `Bellevue'
    Vol.5 ca. 1908-1918. Views of Kendall / Camden Haven, Bathurst and Macksville region
    Vol.6 ca. 1909-1933. Theatre photographs including Mel Ward in theatre costume and `The O'Brien Girl' production
    Vol.7 British Antarctic Expedition, 1910. Album presented to Mr Hugh J. Ward from Edward R.G.R. Evans, Commander R.N., Oct 1913. [comprises a selection of 44 photographs showing expedition members in the Antarctic]
    Vol.8 ca. 1911-1919. Family portraits; Exterior and interior views of `Bellevue' (also loose photographs showing aerial view of Potts Point including `Bellevue' and Bellevue Gardens garage entrance, 25 Macleay St.)
    Vol.9 Album belonging to Hugh F. Ward, includes snaps of Bellevue Gardens; relatives; Summer camp in Vermont, U.S.A., 1916-1917
    Vol.10 ca. 1920-26. Snapshots in U.S.A. ; Signed portraits to Mel Ward
    Vol.11 `Snapshots at Bellevue' [undated portraits]
    Vol.12 Family snapshots [undated]
    Vol.13 Album belonging to Mel Ward [undated family snapshots]
    Vol.14 Snaps taken at the Jungle Training Camp, Lowanna, Dorrigo Plateau, N.S.W., includes photos of all the outstanding forms of life collected during six months (summer time) [undated album belonging to Mel Ward]
  • General note

    Vol.7 Album of photographs of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13 attributed to Herbert G. Ponting by comparison with photographs reproduced in: The great white South ; being an account of experiences with Captain Scott's South Pole expedition and of the nature life of the Antarctic / by Herbert G. Ponting. London : Duckworth, [1921]. See also `Photograph album of the Scott expedition to Antarctica, 1910-13' / annotated by T. Griffith Taylor. Location number: PXA 157, Mitchell Library
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