• Title
  Sir Edward Knox family papers: photographs of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and floods at Bourke, Windsor and Grafton, 1880-1893 / Edward Knox
• Creator
  Edward Knox, Sir, 1819-1901
• Call number
  PXA 1529
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1880-1893
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs, Objects
• Reference code
  421796
• Issue Copy
  Digitised : 26 images
  
• Physical Description
  53 photographs - albumen - 16.5 x 21 cm or smaller
  1 bookmark - cross-stitched on blue silk ribbon - 5.5 x 54.5 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Sir Edward Knox (1819-1901) was director of the Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney 1845-1901 and founded the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. in 1855. He had many other business and public interests, including his association with St. Andrew's Cathedral, the Benevolent Society, the (Royal) Prince Alfred Hospital (of which he was the founding director & chairman) and the Carrington Centennial Hospital for Convalescents (vice-president). He lived in a large Georgian-style house, 'Fiona' on New South Head Road, 1864-1901 (now part of Ascham School). Reference: The Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.5
• Scope and Content
  1-17. [Royal] Prince Alfred Hospital. Includes exterior views and interiors of wards, nurses' quarters, dispensary, kitchen, chapel and laundry / photographed by Charles Bayliss, Sydney [1886]
  18-20. [Living room interior, greenhouse, and view of Sydney Harbour possibly from Edward Knox's residence 'Fiona', New South Head Road, Woollahra]
  21-22. Untitled [Royal Prince Alfred Hospital? and St. Andrew's Cathedral?]
  23-31. Floods at Bourke [1890]. J. S. Donohoe's Gladstone Hotel, Mitchell Street ; Oxley Street ; Sturt Street ; Richard Street ; Commercial Bank ; Railway Station
  32-38. Floods at Windsor. Bridge over Hawkesbury River ; 'The Peninsular' ; View from the Terrace ; The Observatory ; South Creek, Windsor
  39-46. Floods at Grafton, 11 March 1890. Hockey's boot factory, Main Street ; Commercial Bank ; view of town from Bank roof / by J. Stevenson, photo., Grafton
  47. Carrington Convalescent Hospital, Grasmere Estate, Camden, NSW (Harry C. Kent, Architect)
  48-53. Portraits. [Three males possibly Edward Knox?] ; Kate Sparling of Stanmore, NSW ; Henry Bicknell ; Severin Kanute Salting ; William Byron grave, Rookwood
  54. Bookmark "He most lives - feels most blest. Who thinks most Acts the best"
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.4763 as part of the eRecords Project 2012-13
  
  Related Manuscript Material: Knox family papers, Sir Edward Knox. Location Number: MLMSS 98 Mitchell Library
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823973
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  'C. Bayliss, Photo, Sydney' -- stamped at lower left (nos.1-17)
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Bayliss, Charles, 1850-1897
  Stevenson, Josiah
  
• Subject
  Hospitals--New South Wales--Sydney.
  Photography--Australia--19th century.
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  interiors
  chemist shops
  floods
  hospital wards
  hospitals
  kitchens
  laundries
  living rooms
  main streets
  nurses
  nurses' quarters
  patients
  portraits
  towns
  
• Place
  Bourke (N.S.W.)
  Grafton (N.S.W.)
  Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (Camperdown, N.S.W.)
  Windsor (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Impact: a changing land - State Library of New South Wales
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1055485

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