Fellowship of Australian Writers NSW photographs, ca. 1889-1960s

PXX 29
PXE 1124
FM1/5749

series

ca. 1889-1960s

Graphic Materials, Photographs

423772

24 photographic prints - chiefly gelatin silver - 81 x 61 cm. or smaller; many cardboard mounted
1 negative - film - 35 mm

PXX 29 (1 folder)
1. Professor John Le Gay Brereton, first president of the Fellowship of Australian Writers, 1928-1930
2. Mary Jean Cameron at the age of twenty-six. This portrait was painted in 1891 by Ethel Stephens who was Julian Ashton's first pupil when he opened his private school in Sydney five years earlier
3. Mary Jean Cameron at work in her flat at Darlinghurst Rd., Sydney
4. Louisa Lawson, Mary Gilmore, Mona McAuliffe
"From Mona McAuliffe with love, 1935" -- handwritten beneath portrait
"A man[?] is set and a track is laid / But the end of it - none may see, / Till the wandering foot of the whistling man / Comes back from over the sea. Mary Gilmore. 30.12.19" -- inscribed in ink underneath portrait
5. Henry Lawson memorial. Eurunderee, 2nd September 1949. Bertha Lawson addresses the gathering before unveiling the commemorative stone

PXE 1124 (1 box)
1. Henry Lawson pilgrimage. Dr Colin Roderick delivering the oration; Fellowship president Dorothy Catts at his right. 1959
2. [Kylie Tennant, unidentified male, unidentified female]
3. The Tom Collins house at 9 Servetus Street, Swanbourne, Perth, built by Joseph Furphy ("Tom Collins"), author of Such is Life etc. Here he lived and wrote until his death in 1912. Building is maintained by the Fellowship of Australian Writers (W.A.) as a public memorial
4. Dal Stevens, London 1952
"Yours sincerely, Dal Stevens London 1952" -- inscribed in ink at lower right on mount
5. Eleanor Dark
"Swains, Pitt St., Sydney" -- stamped on reverse in red ink
6. Alexei Surkov and Oksana Krugerskaya placing red carnations on the statue of Henry Lawson during their visit to Sydney in September 1960 as guests of the Fellowship of Australian writers
7. Dame Mary Gilmore, founder and Dorothy Catts, president, 1959
"Swains, Pitt St., Sydney" -- stamped on reverse in red ink
8. Margaret Trist
9. Rod Quinn, Wattle Day, 2/9/1911
"Wattle must be the national flower" -- inscribed by Rod Quinn in ink
10. Father Hartigan (John O'Brian), Miles Franklin. 16.8.1949
"The Sun Feature Bureau, 60-70 Elizabeth Street, Sydney" -- stamped in red ink on reverse
"Copyright Associated Newspapers Ltd." -- stamped in red ink on reverse
11. Alec Bookluck[?]
12. Delegates from the Union of Soviet Writers, Alexei Surkov and Oksana Krugerskayer, at the statue of Henry Lawson during their visit to Sydney as guests of the Fellowship of Australian Writers, Sept. 1960
13. Fred Kennedy, Mrs McCredie, Ruby Illingworth, Billy Voysey, Mr & Mrs Kelly, Clive Evatt, Mavis Mallinson, Dagmar Small[?]
14. Roderic Quinn, Sydney, November 15th, 1940
"On the occasion of the 12th anniversary of the Founding of the Fellowship of Australian Writers, and with the hope that it will prove an effective cultural influence through many years yet to be" -- handwritten on lower mount by Roderic Quin
15. Joseph Furphy before he became "Tom Collins", 1889
16. Coralie Lees, Leslie Rees
17. Kylie Tennant, patron of Fellowship of Australian Writers. Opened the Writers Hall at 52 Clarence Street on Wednesday 13th August 1969
"The Leicagraph Co. Pty. Ltd., 5 Strand Arcade, Sydney" -- stamped on reverse in purple ink
18. Mr Stanley Hammond, sculptor, with his bust of Henry Lawson which was placed in Fitzroy Park, Melbourne, 1959
19. Sumner Locke [metal casting]

FM1/5749
a. Alec Bookluck (Photo 16)

Forms part of the Fellowship of Australian Writers papers, ca. 1928-1972 at MLMSS 2008 (K 22103-K 22120) and MLMSS 2008 ADD-ON 384 / Folder 2X

Access via appointment - Applies to FM1/5749

Copyright status:: Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright for the life of creator plus 70 years.
Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales - applies to items where copyright was held by the Fellowship of Australian Writers NSW
Reproduction Restricted:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Title taken from photograph or consignment list held on Library file.

Transferred from PXD 936, 10 November 2023