Desolie Hurley (nee Richardson) - collection relating to Berlei bra designs, ca. 1953-1980s

PXA 961 (v.7)

fonds

ca. 1953-1980s

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Clippings, Textual Records

440300

8 photographic prints - 25 x 20 cm. or smaller
Textual Records - (printed)

1. ["Miss Richardson grooms Suzanne Smith's 50 guinea mink bra"] / Australian Consolidated Press Ltd. Reproduced in article "Beware, men, here's the fifty-guinea bra", Daily Telegraph, February 27, 1962
2-3. [Lady Hurley (nee Richardson) and Sir John Hurley with fir trimmed bra] / John Fairfax & Sons
4. [Lady Hurley and Sir John Hurley with the Berlei Figure Type Indicator]
5. [Berlei staff group portrait] January 1953
6. A group of Senior Executives of Berlei United Ltd... Left to Right: Mr Edmund Burley, Sir John Hurley, Miss Desolie Richardson, Mr Victor Kiam, Mr Tom English, 1965 / Australian Photographic Agency. Also shows clock designed by Bim Hilder in the foyer of Berlei House.
7-8. [Women modelling various bra patents]
Also newscuttings relating to Desolie Richardson (during her time as Berlei Chief Executive Designer) and various Berlei designs. Plus printed items including designs for bras, pamphlets on corsets manufactured in the U.S.A. ca. 1920s, and a copy of New Zealand "Berlei Line Up" which features an article on Desolie Richardson.

Some photoprints titled on reverse