Series 04: Albums of photographs and postcards belonging to the Selfe family, ca. 1865-1920

PXA 1144/Boxes 2-6

series

ca. 1865-1920

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera

825406

5 albums, chiefly photographic prints (5 boxes) - chiefly gelatin silver

BOX 2
Album of photographs of the Ashfield Montessori School, 1914-1919. Includes children and schoolroom activities at the `Warwick' Montessori Achool, Ashfield
(40 photographic prints)

BOX 3
Album of photographs belonging to the Selfe family, ca. 1920-1948. Includes the Havilah Girls Home (1928) and Kindergarten, Havilah girls at Quipoli Home, Leura, a children’s Christmas party (1948), children gardening and dressing up
(62 photographic prints)

BOX 4
Album of family photographs belonging to the Selfe family, ca. 1875-1920
(62 photographic prints)

Photographers named in the album include:
David Scott, successor to William Bradley, Artist Photographer, Pitt St., Sydney
Mr & Mrs Oswald Allen, Artist Photographers, Crayon & Miniature Painters, George St, Sydney
Johnstone, O’Shannessy & Co., Artist Photographers, Bourke St., Melbourne
J. Botterill, Portrait Painter and Photographer, Collins St., Melbourne
Henry King, Photographer and Portrait painter, George St., Sydney
J. Hubert Newman, Photographer and Crayon painter, Hyde Park, Sydney

BOX 5
Postcards of bridges collected by Norman Selfe, ca. 1900-1910.
Postcards, some addressed and inscribed, of bridges and rivers including some of Australian bridges, including bridges in Gundagai, Malabar, Mosmans Bay, Bulli, Taree, Moruya, Maitland, Hunter River, Parramatta River, Cowra, Como Bridge, Wallaga River and the 1893 Maitland River flood.
Album in very poor condition, postcards rehoused into sleeves, album discarded, June 2011.
(296 postcards)

BOX 6
Album Inscribed inside cover : This album belonged to Elizabeth Selfe nee Smith, mother of Norman, Henry & Maybanke Susannah
Selfe family photographs ca. 1867-1914.
(46 photographic prints)

Photographers named in the album include:
Freeman & Co., 346 George Street, Sydney
B.C. Boake from Freeman Bros., Photographer, George St., Sydney
Henry King, Photographer and Portrait painter, George St., Sydney
J. Hubert Newman, Photographer and Crayon painter, Hyde Park, Sydney

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Glorious Days - National Museum of Australia. Applies to: Box 6 nos. 1, 8-9