Stephen family - albums containing mainly studio portraits of Stephen family members, ca. 1858-1900

PXA 1025

series

ca. 1858-1900

Graphic Materials, Photographs

441811

Albums (128 photographs)
1 album with red cover (38 carte-de-visite, 1 photograph) - 20.1 x 16.5 x 5 cm. - (No.1)
1 album (30 cabinet photographs) - 22 x 18 x 5.4 cm. - (No.2)
1 album (24 cabinet photographs, 1 platinum photoprint, 1 photograph) - 22 x 18.5 x 6.5 cm. - (No.3)
1 album (33 carte-de-visite photographs) - 15.3 x 12.2 x 4.8 cm. - (No.4)

ALBUM ONE
1. [not used]
2. [Sir Alfred Stephen, ca. 1858-1859] / Dalton's
3. [Lady Eleanor Stephen, 1862-1866] / Bradley & Allen
4. [Unidentified male] / H.P. Robinson & N.K. Cherrill, Tunbridge Wells
5. [Unidentified female, ca. 1875-1894] / J. Hubert Newman
6. Mrs Fletcher (nee Stephen) / C. Silvy
7. [Unidentified female in theatrical costume, ca. 1869-1874] "from CSS with love" / J. Hubert Newman
8. [Male and female] / Dalton
9. [not used]
10-12. [Sculptures] executed in Brisbane from Achille Simonetti 1873 / J. Watson
13. [William "Billy" Stephen, ca. 1858-1859] / Dalton
14. [Male, ca. 1880-1890] / Freeman & Co.
15. Sir George Stephen [with child] in his 80th year, ca. 1870-1874 / Fred. Alex. Dunn
16-17. [Alice and Saidee Stephen, 1865] / Bradley & Allen
18, 20, 22, 24-25. [not used]
19. [Mary Anne Stephen, 1865] / Bradley & Allen
21. Reverd. William Bedford, 1863 or 64 / W. Spanton
23. [Grave of Conrad John Glascodine]
26-27. [Children, unidentified, ca. 1880] / Freeman & Co.
28. [not used]
29. [Group of three women], February 1896 / E. Gotterat Montreux
30. [Alice or Saidee Stephen, 1880-1882] / Ruse & Barnett
31. Norman. Cecilia & A.J.S. Sept. 1876 / Freeman late Oswald Allen
32. [not used]
33. [Unidentified child, 1880-1890] / Freeman & Co.
34-35. [Females, unidentified]
36. Mary Stephen, ca. 1866-1869 / William Bradley
37. [Male, unidentified, ca. 1880-1890] / Freeman & Co.
38. [Female, unidentied] / Jabez Hughes, Isle of Wright
39. Mrs Walsh, 1864 / Freeman Bros.
40. [Alfred Stephen, ca. 1875-1885] / J. Hubert Newman
41-42. [Children, unidentified, hand-coloured photographs by Freeman Bros. and Thos. Hart]
43. Major Stephen, 1862 / Mayland International Exhibition
44. [Female, unidentified] / J.E. Palmer, Stonehouse Devon
45. [Lady Eleanor Stephen, 1869-1874] / J. Hubert Newman
46. [Matthew Henry Stephen, ca. 1874-1894] / J. Hubert Newman
47. William Bedford, 1880 / Johnstone O'Shannessy & Co.
49. [Male, unidentified]

ALBUM TWO
i. [Homestead - watercolour drawing]
1. Mrs Leslie Stephen [Julia Stephen nee Princep, mother of Virginia Woolf, with Adrian Stephen, ca. 1886]
2. Col. Fitroy Stephen, son of A. Stephen's brother John / Maull & Fox, London
3. Sibella, eldest sister of Sir Alfred Stephen married Taylor [copy print]
4. Ethel with Lucy's love, ca. 1885 / Freeman & Co.
5. [Agnes Stephen] / J. Hubert Newman
6. [Lady Eleanor Stephen] Taken 28th May 1885 / J. Hubert Newman
7. [Sylvia Bedford, ca. 1883] / J. Hubert Newman
8. Clara Virginia Hewlett (nee Stephen) "For my dear Father 1883" / C.F. Wing, Turnbridge Wells
9. To my dearest Father with Jessie's love May 1886 / Robinson & Thompson, Liverpool & Birkenhead
10. [not used]
11. [William Bedford, ca. 1879-1887], Foster & Martin
12. Nelly Stephen, Sir A.S.'s eldest of the 2nd marriage. Died at the age of 21.
13. [Cecil Stephen]
14. [not used]
15. [Ernest Stephen?]
16. [Saidee Stephen, ca, 1875-1880] / J. Hubert Newman
17. [Caroline Stephen nee Shadforth, wife of Sir Matthew Henry Stephen] / Freeman & Co.
18. [Female, unidentified, ca. 1880] / Freeman & Co.
19. Mary Severn [i.e. Mary Anne Stephen], ca. 1898-1900 / Falk Studio
20. [Cissie and Alfred Knight?] / Mowll & Morrison, Liverpool
21. James Stephen / Geo. Hadley, Lincoln, London
22. James Fitzjames Stephen in letter of 4th May '86 Rec? 15th June A.L.
23. [not used]
24. [Giva Stanley?, ca. 1886-1888] / Johnstone O'Shannessy & Co.
25. [Matthew Henry Stephen] / Walery
26. [Virginia Riddell and "Sonnie" ? - woman holding a baby]
27. [William Wilberforce]
28. Wilberforce Stephen, son of Sir George [fifth son of Sir Alfred and his first wife Virginia], ca. 1886-1888 / Johnstone O'Shannessy & Co.
29. Montague Consett S. [second son of Alfred Stephen] (Conny)
30. [not used]
31. Lady Dunbar, daughter of Mr George Stephen & aunt of Sir Condie S. To Sir Alfred Stephen with his ... regards Septr. 1886 / Maull & Fox
32. Mr George Stephen Father of Oscar Leslie S. & Grandfather of Sir Condie S. & father of Lady Dunbar [copy print]
33. Sir Condie Stephen. Sent me by his Aunt Lady Dunbar, Augt. 1886 / London Stereoscopic Company
34. [Reverend Stephen] / J. Hubert Newman

ALBUM THREE
1. [Female, unidentified]
2. [Agnes Victoria Stephen, wedding portrait, ca. 1869-1874] / J. Hubert Newman
3. [Alfred Bedford, wedding portrait, ca. 1869-1874] / J. Hubert Newman
4. Lord Augustus Loftus / Bradley & Rulofson, San Francisco
5. [Female, unidentified] / J. Hubert Newman
6. [Alfred Percival Bedford?, ca. 1891-1900] / Freeman & Co.
7. Myee [?] aged 1 year 1890 / Falk
8. Lord Carrington's [three] children, 1888 / Freeman & Co.
9. J.S.M. Carrington 2 months old 1889 [Cecilia Margaret Carrington] / Kerry & Jones
10, 13, 15. [not used]
11. [Three unidentified females] Platinotype
12. Georgina V. Stanley, December 90 [i.e. 1890] / Johnstone O'Shannessy & Co.
14. [Child, unidentified]
16. Douglas Clendon Leslie Stephen / Born Febry. 7th 1877- / This was taken 5 1/2 years / old / nephew of Sir Condie S. [i.e. Stephen] / Son of James G [or Y] Stephen / & grandson of / Oscar Leslie Stephen [inscribed on reverse in several hands] / by John Edwards
17. Albert Alexandre Leslie Stephen / Born Febry. 3th 1879- / This taken at 3 1/2 years / old / Son of James G [or Y] Stephen / & grandson of / Oscar Leslie Stephen [inscribed on reverse in several hands] / by John Edwards
18. [Two women with child and cricket bat] May 1884 / Freeman & Co.
19. For Grannie from little Humfrey aged 2 years. May 1884 [Child holding cricket bat] / Freeman & Co.
20. Andrew Garran, 1880 / Henry King
21. [Mrs. Septimus A. Stephen? - Lucy Campbell]
22. [not used]
23. Major Grant Stephen born 28th July son of William / County of Gloucester Studio
24. Annie S.C. Stephen London 1888 / Elliot and Fry
25. [Sculpture bust of man] / J. Hubert Newman
26-27. [not used]
28. [Three children] / Freeman & Co.
29. "Trisie" [inscribed on front] "Aunt Agnes" [on reverse], ca. 1867-1877 / B. Boake
30. Sir Daniel Cooper, "Baronett" / Bradley & Rulofson, San Francisco
31. [Unidentified woman in shepardess costume], ca. 1879-1884 / Boyd, Palace of Art
32. [Female with child], ca. 1880 / Freeman & Co.

ALBUM FOUR
1. In memory of the Rev: William Bedford [tombstone]
2. [Town view with Church]
3. [Child, unidentified, ca. 1873-1879] / Freeman (late Oswald Allen)
4-5. Sylvia P. Bedford, aged 1 year 9 months, Jany / 80 [i.e. 1880] / Freeman & Co.
6. Ruth Marjory Bedford aged 1 year Aug / 83 [i.e. 1883]
7-13. [Unidentified portraits of women and a boy, by Freeman & Co., Oswald Allen, and Alfred Bock, ca. 1858-1880's]
14. Alfred Percival aged 11 years / Bradley & Rulofso
15. Allen's Parsonage
16. Augustin ...svard, 24 Dec. 1880 / A. Sorgato, Venezia
17. [not used]
18-19. [Prince Alfred] H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh, 1868 / William Bradley
20-21. [Alice and Saidee Stephen, twin sisters, ca. 1869-1874] / J. Hubert Newman
22. [Female, unidentified]
23. [not used]
24. [Male, unidentified] / Freeman Bros.
25. [Lady Eleanor Stephen, ca. 1862-1866] / Oswald Allen
26. [Male, Reverend, unidentified] October 1871 / T.F. Chuck, The London Portrait Gallery
27. [Agnes Stephen?] / J. Hubert Newman
28. [Alfred Percival Bedford, ca. 1875-1894] / J. Hubert Newman
29. [not used]
30. [Male, unidentified, ca. 1872-1877] / M.W. Greenfeld
31. [William Stephen] / Freeman Bros.
32-33. [Males, unidentified, ca. 1869-1871] / Oswald Allen
34. [Agnes Stephen?, ca 1862-1866] / Bradley & Allen
35. Edith A.R. Hill 2 1/2 yr. old May 1878 / J. Hubert Newman
36. [Two men, unidentified, ca. 1871-1879] / David Scott [at] William Bradley
37. [Female, unidentified, ca. 1866-1869] / William Bradley

The albums were incomplete with some pages vacant at the time of accessioning in July 2004.
The photographs were subsequently removed from each album and allocated a number that corresponded with the album page number the material was displayed in.
Some photographs have been identified by comparison with; Stephen family - collection of photographs being mainly studio portraits of Stephen family members, 1858-1949, located at PXA 1024.
Where dates are not provided but a photographer's stamp is present, 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
ALBUM ONE
Embossed on the spine, "MLMSS 777/16/Pt.1".
Several photographs are unidentified.
ALBUM TWO
A watercolour drawing has been pasted onto the front endpaper and remains in the volume (see PXA 1025/Box 3).
A handwritten contents list, written in ink and numbered 1 to 34, is at the front of the album. This list has been amended, with some names crossed out in pencil. It is uncertain whether this list directly corresponds with the identity of the sitters of these portraits.
Some album pages have an inscription identifying the sitter of the portrait.
No.1 has been identified with comparison of an albumen print held by the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College Libraries, USA, Online July 2004.
No. 17 identified by reader, Nov 2005
The spine and front cover are damaged.
ALBUM THREE
At the front of this album is a handwritten contents list that does not directly correspond with the identity of the sitter of the portrait.
Several photographs are unidentified.
ALBUM FOUR
Nos. 18-19 are signed and dated on the reverse, "Alfred 1868"
Several photographs are unidentified.

Many photographs bear photographer's stamp on reverse or beneath image.
"2" Embossed on front of Album Two.
"3" Embossed on front of Album Three.
Many photographs in Album 2 are identified on the reverse.

Douglas Clendon Leslie Stephen (album 3 number 16) identified by Alastair Stephen, August 2010.

Albert Alexander Leslie Stephen, (album 3 number 17) birth date supplied by Alastair Stephen, August 2010. He was wounded at Ypres and died on October 31 1914. aged 35.

Reference:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission. http://www.cwgc.org/ (accessed August 20, 2010)