• Title
  Series 02: Walker family photographic albums and sketchbooks, chiefly 1862-1890
• Call number
  PXA 1266
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  chiefly ca. 1862-1890
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings
• Reference code
  414263
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised
• Physical Description
  Approx. 500 photographs
  Approx. 150 drawings
  
• Scope and Content
  VOLUME 01
  Carte de visite album. Includes family members on verandah at `Rhodes', Concord, with Anna Elizabeth Walker (centre) and Alice Walker (left) (p.1). Thomas & Anna Elizabeth Walker (p.9). Arthur & George Blaxland (p.28b). Harold de Broke Walker (p.38b). Emily Rodd nee Blaxland (p.47a). Bessie [Elizabeth] Brooks nee Blaxland (p.47b). Louisa Australia Blaxland (p.48)
  
  VOLUME 02
  Carte de visite album. Includes Mrs G. [Adela] Nixon nee Walker (p.4, 22a). Louisa Walker (p.13). Marion Laura Walker (p.20,23b). Adela (p.26a). Harriott Walker (p.27b). Rhodes, Tas. (p.35). Anna (p.45)
  
  VOLUME 03
  Carte de visite album / L. E. Walker. Includes Lady Macleay (p.4). George Nixon (p.7,28). Gertrude Bell nee Norton, Agnes ? nee Norton, Albert Norton, Anna Norton of `Ecclesbourne' (p.18-19). Sir Thomas Gore Browne (p.36). Reverend Nixon, Bishop of Tasmania (p.1,41)
  
  VOLUME 04
  Photographic album. Includes John Blaxland bust (p.1). Marion Walker (p.2,19). Louisa Australia Blaxland (p.5c). Anna Elizabeth Walker (p.7,16). Thomas Walker (p.17). Adela Walker (p.19). Harriott Blaxland (p.37). [John Rhodes Walker?] (p.38)
  
  VOLUME 05
  Photographic album. Includes [Ross Lewin Blaxland Walker?] (p.8a). John A. Blaxland (p.22c). Dora & Robina Rodd with love to Aunt Loo' (p.25d). Mark Blaxland (p.28b). `Newington', Blaxland family house (p.33,50). Arthur Ernest Scott Walker (p.38a). `Rhodes' Tasmania (p.39)
  
  VOLUME 06
  Photographic album (predominantly empty). Includes Edmund Tower (p.26b). Arthur Tower (p.34). Herbert & Ada Tower (p.35)
  
  VOLUME 07
  Photographic album. Residences including `Rhodes', Tasmania (p.1,59,61?) and Rhodes, Concord (p.2-3,7) and Ecclesbourne, Double Bay (p.5). Also views of Lavender Bay, Botanical Gardens, Garden Palace, Government House, Blue Mountains and various churches. Many photographs by C. Bayliss
  
  VOLUME 08
  Photographic album. Includes `Rhodes', Tas. (p.1). `Rhodes' Parramatta River (p.2-3). [`Ecclesbourne' and Darling Point] (p.5). Chiefly Tasmanian views some by J. W. Beattie
  
  VOLUME 09
  Flowers of New South Wales / by Miss A. F. Walker. 1887 (Two other copies of this book forwarded to Mitchell Library printed books collection). Also series of loose sketches by A. F. Walker with captions
  
  VOLUME 10
  Album. Includes photographs of `Rhodes', Concord (p.15,91,138,197,203), `Hellene' [Helenie], Ryde (p.50-1,91,193). Bishop Nixon? (p.171). House interiors (p.89) and exteriors - possibly `Rhodes', Tasmania. Also `Mona Vale' (p.33) `Alford Cottage' N.Z. (p.189) and scenes of Tasmania and New Zealand. Plus watercolour sketches by various artists including AFW [Anna Francis Walker], GCN [George Coleridge Nixon], JRW [John Rhodes Walker]
  
  VOLUME 11
  Album of pencil sketches / Selina Rhodia Walker (inscribed inside cover)
  
  VOLUME 12
  Album / Miss A. F. Walker from her dear friend Mrs [F. J.] Giles, 1867. Includes an arrangement of vingetted albumen portraits of A. F. Walker, Frank Giles, L. E. Walker, Arthur George Walker, Gertrude Norton (nee Walker), Thomas Walker, Harriott Norton (nee Walker), George Cumberland (p.1). Photographs of Rhodes, Tasmania (p.3). Autographs including Arthur Edward Walker, George Glendowen Blaxland (p.5). Drawings by A. F. Walker and F. Giles
  
  VOLUME 13
  Loose family photographs and miscellaneous sketches. Portraits and groups include Anna Elizabeth Walker, Anna Francis Walker, Harold, Arthur, Percy & Lachlan Walker, Louisa A. Blaxland, Donald Rhodes & Norman Francis Walker, Lewin Walker, Marion, Adela & Alice Walker, Jack Blaxland. Exterior (and interior) scenes of various family residences, including `Rhodes' Concord (p.41-7,62-5). Also sketches by Anna Francis Walker and various family members.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955 - relates to photographs.
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955 - relates to artworks.
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823791
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Some photoprints titled on reverse
  Some drawings signed at lower edge
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Bayliss, Charles, 1850-1897
  Beattie, J. W. (John Watt), 1859-1930
  Walker, A. F. (Anna Frances), 1830-1913
  Walker family
  
• Name
  Blaxland family
  Blaxland, Louisa Australia, 1807-1888
  Browne, Thomas Gore, Sir, 1807-1887
  Norton family
  Walker, Anna Elizabeth, 1804-1889
  Walker, Anna Francis, 1830-1913
  Walker, Thomas, 1791-1861
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  children
  Walker family.
  
• Topic
  interiors
  country scenes
  families
  gardens
  groups (people)
  houses
  pioneers
  portraits
  signatures
  upper class people
  
• Place
  Ecclesbourne (Double Bay, N.S.W.)
  Hellene (Ryde, N.S.W.)
  Mona Vale (Ross, Tas.)
  Newington (Silverwater, N.S.W.)
  Parramatta River (N.S.W.)
  Rhodes (Longford, Tas.)
  Rhodes (Rhodes, N.S.W.)
  St. Andrew's Cathedral (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  St. Anne's Anglican Church (Ryde, N.S.W.)
  St. Mark's Church (Darling Point, N.S.W.)
  Tasmania
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1092135

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