Stephen family - group portrait photographs, ca. 1883-1896

PXE 932

series

ca. 1883-1896

Graphic Materials, Photographs

441809

Photographs - 8 photoprints - 28.8 x 38 cm. or smaller

1-3. [Group in bush setting, possibly Blue Mountains, ca. 1883-1891] / Turtle & Co.
4. Family Gathering at Chowder Bay - 20th August 1889 / To celebrate Sir ... [Alfred Stephen's] 87th Birthday
5. [Women, men, and children at the front of building, ca. 1885-1892] / Kerry & Jones
6. 27th June 1896 / J. Robinson, photographer, Illawarra Studios, Carlton, N.S.W. [members of group identified on reverse] "Figures in Group / Alfred Eleanor - Jack Janet Mr Windcombe Emile Roger Mys.. / Miss Hensen Edyth Aunt Mary Mrs Windcombe Uncle Ernest Mrs Hunt - Kitty / Jamie - Kenneth - Ethel Arthur Tim"
7. [Women and childen on hill outside of buildings]
8. [Staff? group with Alfred P. Bedford seated in centre of middle row]

Please note that many of the photographs are fragile being mounted onto acidic board.
Photographs are dated by: The mechanical eye in Australia : photography 1841-1900 / Alan Davies & Peter Stanbury ; with assistance from Con Tanre. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985
No.2 has three pencil sketches of heads in profile on the reverse.
Nos. 7 and 8 are not signed or dated.

Some photographs bear photographer's stamp.