• Title
  William Busby family photograph album, ca.1870-1882
• Call number
  PXE 893
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1870-1882
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  421900
• Physical Description
  1 album (65 cartes-de-visite, 19 cabinet photographs) - 30 x 24 cm.
  14 photoprints (9 cartes-de-visite, 2 cabinet photographs, 3 albumen) - 16 x 21 cm. or smaller
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  William Busby was born in England in 1813 and moved to Sydney in 1824. A pastoralist and politician, he oversaw the project which provided Sydney with a regular water supply from 1834-1837. Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 3, 1851-1890
• Scope and Content
  William Busby, Tammi Busby, Sir George Macleay, Liet. Thomas Woore, Mrs J. Woore (Tammie), Lady Macleay, Lady Belmore, Lord Belmore, Leila Darley nee Campbell, Maud Macarthy, Connie Busby, William Ogilvie, J[?] Gregor, Hank Gregor, Miss Pilla[r?]s, Miss Harrington & Katie Busby, Lena [?] Smith nee Stephens, Uncle Alick Busby, Sir Alfred Stephen, Francis, Lily, Ella and Edith Busby, Lily Florence Hoskyn nee Busby, Carrie Busby, Flo Busby, Zoe Bowen, Agnes Bowen, Ade R[?] nee Allison, Ellick Busby, Miss Woolley, Mrs Bean, Liet. H. Meade, General [?], Mrs Carnegy, George Herbert Busby, Captain Bridges, Catherine Annie Busby wife of William Busby, Aunt Frances Simeon, Sir George Lambert, Capt. E. Mann, Mrs Edward Mann, Lady Hay, Sir John Hay, Edith Octavia Busby, Archdeacon Williams, [F.M.I.?] Busby, Thomas Woore Frederick Busby, K. A. Busby
  Loose photos:
  a. Alex Busby
  b. Alexander Busby (son)
  c. Alice Busby
  d-g. [Unidentified Fijians]
  h. [Unidentified ship]
  i. [Unidentified male workers in bush setting]
  
  j-n. [Unidentified individual and family portraits]
• General note
  
  Most photos are identified on reverse or in album margins
  Largely undated
  Details of photographic studios printed on reverse of most images. Studios represented are from Sydney, Melbourne, New Zealand, London and Fiji
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823545
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Some images briefly inscribed on reverse
• Conservation note
  
  Album - broken spine and missing clasp. Some albumen prints extensively torn in parts
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Freeman & Co. Ltd
  
• Name
  Busby, Catherine Anne (Annie), d. 1910
  Busby, William, 1813-1887
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  Carte de visite photographs.
  Infants--Photographs.
  Photograph albums.
  Photography of families.
  Portrait photography.
  children
  
• Topic
  interiors
  indigenous people
  ships
  
• Place
  Fiji
  Sydney (N.S.W.)--Photographs.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1119651

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