Vickery family pictorial material and wedding tie and glove, ca. 1870-1947

PXE 1045
PXB 488
R 1063

fonds

ca. 1870-1947

Graphic Materials, Objects, Photographs

421722

31 photographs - albumen and gelatin silver - various sizes
1 album - mostly gelatin silver photographs - album size 16.5 cm x 12.0 cm
1 sketchbook - mostly pencil - sketchbook 25.5 cm x 37.0 cm
1 glove
1 bow tie

Ebenezer Vickery (1827-1906), merchant and manufacturer, had two sons Ebenezer Jnr and Joseph. With a large trading and importing premises in Pitt Street, Sydney, he took his sons into partnership, becoming E. Vickery & Sons. The family played a prominent role in the Methodist Church for many years. His grand-son was Ebenezer Frank Vickery.

References:
Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 6 p.333.
Australian Men of Mark, Vol. 2, p.290.

Collection includes photographic portraits and album, sketchbook, and wedding tie and glove

PXE 1045
Photographs including portraits of F. E. Cummins; Amos Corbet; Anderson Architect; Dr W. W. J. O'Reilly; Frederick R. Potts; Lily? was Dr McClelland's wife; Anne Lindsay; James Leslie; Mr & Mrs Ball [seated in fernery], Penkivil Street, Bondi; [Group at] Kimpton Hall, Herts. Also scenes of Greta Coal [train and mine]; William Street, Sydney, 1887 by [Government Printing Office]; Luddenham by C. Bayliss.

Sketchbook: 1946 Bill Rabbitt sketchbook [contains pencil drawings of nudes]

PXB 488
Album, titled 'Courting, 1906' [Shows the courtship of Ebenezer F. Vickery and Ethel A. Rabbitts, who married 2 July 1908]. Includes views of Karrara [i.e. Carrara], Vaucluse; the Appian Way, Burwood; Roseville and Bronte.

R 1063
Wedding bow tie of E. [Ebenezer] Vickery Jnr and right hand glove of Jane Ellen Firth, 28 March 1879, also includes original envelope used to house items.

Access via appointment - Applies to R 1063

Copyright restrictions may apply: Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright.
Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years. Applies to sketchbook, 1946
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Some photographs titled and dated

This collection includes manuscript material at MLMSS 3092 and ADD-ON 929, Vickery family papers, ca. 1875-1973, and pictorial material at PXD 924

Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transfered from Pic.Acc.3708 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012

Dated from collection