• Title
  [Illuminated Address presented] to Charles Alfred Gordon Lillingston Esq., Yulgilbar, 1920
• Creator
  Charles A. G. Lillingston
• Call number
  ML 1343
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  9 April 1920
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  440282
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour and manuscript - visible image 45.5 x 33 cm, decoratively mounted in a later frame 69 x 57cm (outside dimensions)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Yulgilbar, a remote sheep and cattle station on the upper Clarence River of NSW, was originally founded by Edward D. S. Ogilvie in 1841. He married Theodosia de Burgh in 1859 and built a Moorish-style mansion using local serpentine and sandstone, importing stonemasons from Europe. After his death in 1896, the property passed to his sixth daughter Mabel and her husband Charles Lillingston. Their daughter was feminist activist Jessie Street (wife of Sir Kenneth Street), whose daughter Belinda Mackay (nee Street) presented this illuminated address to the Library.
• Scope and Content
  The address reads: "Dear Sir, We the residents of Yulgilbar and the surrounding District wish to tender to Mrs Lillingston, Miss Lillingston and yourself a hearty welcome back to our midst after your long absence abroad. We have heard with pride of the strenuous part you continually played on behalf of our Empire throughout the awful years of the Great War just ended and we rejoice to think that you and your family have been spared by Providence to return to Australia and to us. We also feel proud of the splendid military career of your only son Mr Edward Lillingston during the war and we feel honoured to know that he too will shortly be returning to settle at Yulgilbar. We trust that you and your good family may long be spared to shed your benign influence upon us and wish to subscribe ourselves. Yours respectfully April 9th 1920."
  The address is illustrated with a watercolour drawing of Yulgilbar castle on the banks of the Clarence River, with flannel flowers and native flora surrounding the text. The artist W. Stevenson, Grafton was also a photographer in the area during the period 1896-1931. The address lists 44 signatures of local residents whose families still live in the area. It represents a passing pastoral era, when benevolent landowners oversaw a large number of staff and residents on their property. -- Acquisition report, State Library of NSW, 2004.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of Creator plus 70 years
  Copyright holder:: Not known
  Approval for reproduction required:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• General note
  
  This address of welcome was presented to Charles, Mabel and daughter Evelyn Lillingston at a special Friday night dance at which all the 'old hands' were present -- information from a letter by Jessie Street (nee Lillingston) dated 11 April 1920 in possession of the donor.
  Digital order no:a128796
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "W. Stevenson, Grafton" -- signed at lower edge
  "Stevenson's Vice-Regal Studios, Fitzroy Street, Grafton" -- framer's label on reverse
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Stevenson, W.
  
• Name
  Lillingston family
  
• Topic
  addresses, illuminated
  cattle stations
  flannel flowers
  graziers
  houses
  personnel
  rivers
  
• Place
  Clarence River Region (N.S.W.)
  Yulgilbar Castle (Clarence River, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9024287

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