Sub-series 2: Wentzel family further graphic materials, approximately 1885-1963

PXD 994
ML 1389

sub-series

approximately 1885-1963

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings, Paintings

455793

5 albums (352 photographic prints)
127 photographic prints
6 photographs - digital
51 drawings - pencil, ink, watercolour
4 sketchbooks
1 painting - oil
1 watercolour
1 illuminated address

Albums:
PXD 994/Box 1
ca. 1885-1907; Album of 53 photographs (and one loose newscutting) - family individual and group portraits, including pets. Album owner Mrs Georgina Hauptmann (sister of Annie Waldie Wentzel). Inscribed 'To Mrs Hauptmann ... from her Haddington Friends, April 28th 1889'. Includes a family portrait of Albert and Annie Wentzel with children Norbert and Charles, Creelman Studios, Sydney Arcade, ca.1891 (p.9).

PXD 994/Box 2
ca. 1890s; Album of 66 photographs, chiefly unidentified portraits, but also including identified portraits of Albert and Annie Wentzel (pp. 3-4).

PXD 994/Box 3
ca. 1910; Album of 98 photographs belonging to Charles Wentzel. Inscribed 'With very best wishes to Charlie from Elsie and Roy, July 1910'. Includes identified photographs of Albert, Charles and Norbert Wentzel, as well as other unidentified group & individual portraits, landscapes, holiday & picnic scenes, animals, residences, buildings & events.

PXD 994/Box 4
ca. 1926-1929; Album of 96 photographs, mainly taken on tour around New South Wales and the ACT, mostly unidentified. Includes identified photographs of Norbert Wentzel and Nyora Chrissen.

PXD 994/Box 5
ca. 1930s; Album of 39 photographs of travel - views & subjects unidentified. On inside back cover: photograph of a radio orchestra conducted by Horace Keats, with Charles and Norbert Wentzel playing violas (4th and 3rd from right).

Small loose photographs:
PXD 994/Box 6
ca. 1890-1954; 122 loose photographs & postcards, and 6 negatives, including portraits of Annie Waldie Wentzel, Georgina Hauptmann, Albert Wentzel, Charles Wentzel, Norbert Wentzel, Nyora Chrissen, Alma Chrissen, Peter Wentzel and H.G. Rivers Allpress (1896). There are also photographs of people wearing masks in Sydney during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918-1919, several photographs from the 1928 Melba-Williamson Opera tour from Adelaide to Perth on the Trans-Australian railway, and two photographs of St Joseph's College, Hunter's Hill, on the occasion of the visit of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh in 1954. Six nitrate negatives of Anna Pavlova's 1926 tour (digitised and described in attached record).

Large items:
PXD 994/Box 7
(a) Photograph of string quartet comprising H.G. Rivers Allpress and Albert Wentzel (violins), Herbert H. Rice (viola) and Edgar J. Strauss (violincello), ca.1892;
(b) Photograph of members of St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Longueville, N.S.W. including Albert and Annie Wentzel, ca.1900;
(c) Photograph of choir, orchestra and soloists in the Sydney Town Hall, undated;
(d) Photograph of Charles and Norbert Wentzel swimming in Sydney, ca.1920s;
(e) Illuminated address to Albert Wentzel from his pupils on the occasion of his Fifth Annual Concert, Sydney. Signed by Ida Milford, Edith Brown, Adelaide Tracy, Alexander G. Aitken and Michael L. Gleeson;
(f) Watercolour painting by John Santry of Charles Wentzel playing the violin wearing a gas mask in World War II;
(g) Photograph of St Joseph's College music students and music masters, 1908.

Drawings:
PXD 994/Box 8
1885-1963; 51 loose leaves of drawings (some double-sided and 1 cardboard mounted) & 4 sketchbooks, incomplete. Chiefly pencil drawings but also ink, watercolours & wash. Artist: Nyora Wentzel, mother of Ann Carr-Boyd. Chiefly portraits, including pets and landscapes.

Paintings:
ML 1389
ca.1950; Portrait of Charles Wentzel by John Santry (described in separate item-level record).

Albums arranged chronologically

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Inscriptions on reverse of album photos have been transcribed to album margins by Library Officer