• Title
  Les Darcy, boxer - photographs, ca. 1909-1917
• Call number
  PXA 1102
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1909-1917
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera
• Reference code
  456533
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 album (12 photprints) - album 12.5 x 17.5 cm., photoprints 8.5 x 13.5 cm.
  Photographs - 2 silver gelatin photoprints, on mount - 25.5 x 14.5 cm. or smaller
  Ephemera - 2 postcards - 13.5 x 8.5 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  For a biography of Les Darcy, boxer and folk hero, see: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online edition
• Scope and Content
  1. "Les Darcy at the blacksmith shop door" / Victor Studios
  2. Darcy as a young boxer
  3. "Les Darcy when he left the shop" [i.e. a studio head and shoulders portrait in suit]
  4. Les Darcy and his friend Mick Hawkins, during the 'Milko Tournament' in Maitland
  5. Lawes Street, East Maitland during the 1893 flood
  6-17. Les Darcy's funeral, Maitland, 1917
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Transferred from ML DOC 1698
  Nos 1 & 3 titled on the reverse; no.4 -- caption supplied by S.Goernitz, February 2007; Title and Contents list devised by cataloguer
  PXA 1102/1 is a portrait of Darcy, the blacksmith, posed in the doorway of the blacksmith shop, located in the main street of East Maitland opposite Evatt's Hotel, The George and Dragon -- Information from ML PXn 496
  Digital order no:Album ID : 846037
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Victor Studios
  
• Name
  Darcy, Les, 1895-1917
  Hawkins, Mick
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  blacksmiths
  boxers
  floods
  funerals
  portraits
  trainers
  
• Place
  Maitland (N.S.W.)
  
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