• Title
  Bingle family : scrap album, 1856-1889
• Call number
  PXA 941
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1856-1889
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs, Prints
• Reference code
  414220
• Physical Description
  1 album (147 pages plus 69 loose items, including 12 photographs) - 29.5 x 24 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  John Bingle of `Puen Buen', Upper Hunter, NSW, had three children: Mary Elizabeth, Sarah Cross and John Rayden. His neighbour was surgeon, politician and amateur photographer, Joseph Docker of `Thornthwaite'. See the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.1
  For a written history of the Bingle family see ML MSS 486/1b pp.245-264 (CY 2296) Mitchell Library
• Scope and Content
  Typical of the period, album contains manuscript poems, music, autographs, photographs, sentimental prints and miscellaneous drawings by Sarah C. Bingle and others. Of particular interest are:
  Calotypes (or salt prints from glass negatives), ca. 1850-1855, taken by Joseph Docker of `Thornthwaite', the property abutting John Bingle's property `Puen Buen' (Call No.: pp.39,73,97,99,105,119,143)
  Albumen photoprints of St Andrews Scotch Church and Watt Street with view to the Harbour, Newcastle, 1860 (Call No.: pp.93,113)
  Silhouette portrait (with bronzing) of Sarah C. Bingle, 1837 (Call No.: p.109)
  Emu feather arrangement by Sarah C. Bingle, 1857, from feathers `Captured on the Downs' (Call No.: p.85)
  Dried leaf arrangement from `Puen Buen' (Call No.: p.55)
  Seaweed arrangements by Sarah C. Bingle, 1857 (Call No.: pp.145,147)
  Indian mica paintings (Call No.: pp.126-7)
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  A similar print of `Thornthwaite' (p.39) reproduced in The Mechanical Eye in Australia / A. Davies & P. Stanbury. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823734
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  `Mary Elizabeth Bingle from her affectionate Father, 1856. Newcastle 2nd June 1856' -- flyleaf inside album cover
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Bingle, Mary Elizabeth
  Docker, Joseph, 1802-1884
  Little, Sarah Cross, 1832-1909
  Raydon, Marianne
  
• Name
  Bingle family
  Docker, Joseph, 1802-1884
  Empire Day
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  children
  
• Topic
  churches
  graves
  houses
  portraits
  scrapbooks
  signatures
  silhouettes
  
• Place
  Newcastle (N.S.W.)
  Thornthwaite (Dartbrook, N.S.W.)
  Watt Street (Newcastle, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1003092

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