Robert Danvers Power - glass negatives, ca. 1910-1930

ON 280

fonds

ca. 1910-1930

Graphic Materials, Photographs

447676

Photographs - 416 glass photonegatives - 8.5 x 10.5 cm.
Photographs - 5 glass photonegatives - 8.2 x 13.8 cm. - nos 71-75
Photographs - 4 glass transparencies - 8.5 x 10.5 cm.

Robert ('Bob') Danvers Power was born 24 April 1907 in Drummoyne, NSW. His parents were Frederick D. Power and Muriel F. nee Blain. He was educated at Hawkesbury Agricultural College in the early 1920s and purchased land (30 acres) at North Richmond on the banks of the Hawkesbury River, called 'Waterford', later used in commercial and television shows. He was a farmer, conservationist, avid collector and adventurer. He travelled extensively within Australia and overseas and his interests included: photography, trains, bushwalking, local history. He collected artefacts, including the vertebra of a whale which gave Whale Beach its name. He died unmarried and without descendants on 27 June 1997 at North Richmond, bequething parts of his collection to the Powerhouse and Maritime Museums, as well as the local community through the Hawkesbury Museum and the Hawkesbury City Council Library -- information from file ML 36/00

1-69. Family
70-81. Special - Mum
82-130. Relations
131-271. Strangers
272-360. Views
361-384. La Perouse
385-409. Box labelled Alfred [unreadable] 432 Illawarra Rd Marrickville Sydney N.S.W.
410-425. [1 untitled box]
There are images of White City fairgrounds (nos 244,320), St Peters Municipal Council hall (?) set out for a banquet and/or U.A.O.P. Anglesea Lodge wedding (nos 40,237,248,254-256,331), weatherboard Federation family houses "Weroona" (nos 301,309,311) and "Veronica" (nos 327,371), an historic sandstone and slate roof house (no.334), a tableau vivant "Apollo charms the shepherdess" (no.348), a still life of cheeses, whisky, salmon and pies (no.372), Bakewell Bros Beulah Brickworks and brickworks beside a railway line by A.Keep (no.351), Tempe Methodist Church [Sydenham] (no.350), table of Great War military souvenirs (no.383), women and men of the family in soldier and band uniforms (nos 8,10,62,66,90,94,145,158,185,193,199,368), soldiers leaving for War (no. 393), baby with Lactogen cans (no.369), army band and the Sphinx (no.45), a civilian brass band (no.289), trams (nos 12,323), burst water main (nos 20,345), Pressto & Keep Australian magicians (nos 21,297,346), acrobats (nos 44,100,181), a circus (nos 22,243), boxers (no.215), a crystal set (nos 23,106,119), Sharpe Bros Health Beverages factory and pottery (nos 35,43,212,231,260,278-280,286,300,343,387,403,406-409,414), boy reading Ginger Meggs (no.50), infant and baby with trumpet (nos 120,175), girl dressed as nursing sister (no.126), church dressed for harvest festival (nos 162-165,380,381), L.O.L. freemason march and members (nos 178,378), boy on rocking horse (nos 196,221), coin exhibition (no.211), boatbuilders (no.222), John and Elizabeth Dye (no.238), ferry Rose (no.272), a sergeant welcomed home in Renault car to a decorated house (nos 281-283,353), Darling Harbour wharves (no.313), a house cut in half to move (no.329), dredge in Botany Bay (no. 342), T-model Ford car accident (no. 390) and Clareville Hall Refreshment Rooms (no.328)

Filed in photographer's original box order

Although Robert Danvers Power had a camera from a young age, these photographs are more likely to be by his father, Frederick Danvers Power -- A.Davies, Curator of Photographs (Sept 2007)
Although the photographer's boxes were labelled Family, Relations, Strangers, La Perouse and Views, the negatives appear to be random in each box
There may be Redmond and Jacoby family portraits in this collection, as these names are on two of the original boxes