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825428
  • Title
    Family groups, portraits and scenes in Sydney, Hawkesbury and Papua New Guinea, ca. 1880-1910 / collected by Peter Gorry
  • Creator
  • Call number
    ON 314
    SLIDES 144
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1880-1910
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    825428
  • Physical Description
    103 negatives - glass - 16.5 x 12 cm or smaller
    8 slides - lantern - 8.3 x 8.3 cm.
  • Scope and Content
    ON 314
    1-3. Group of people in bushland setting
    4. Six men leaning against wooden fence
    5. Group of people, one on horseback, in bushland
    6. People sitting on riverbank, with moored punt
    7. Two women on jetty, one with parasol, on Mosman jetty
    8. Group boarding a dinghy from jetty
    9. River scene with two men, dinghy and small sailing boat
    10. Man sitting in boat on grassed bank
    11. Boat on bank and boatshed
    12-13. Boating scenes
    14-15. People reclining on grass outside tent
    16-16a. Men outside tent
    17. Man and child in garden with wooden paling and post and rail fences and ladders
    18-29. Group and individual portraits in garden settings
    30. Woman in hammock with parasol
    31-32. Three men seated in garden, with magazines “Comic Cuts”, “Illustrated Bits”, “Pick me up”
    33-45. Group and individual portraits in garden settings
    46-54. Group and individual portraits posed against paling fence
    55-58. Group and individual portraits, posed against flags
    59-64. People standing with or riding horses
    65. Family with horse and cart
    66.-68. Group portraits (interiors)
    69-70. People in garden and on verandah of weather board house
    71. Man standing in garden in front of large house
    72. Weather board house with water tank and verandah
    73. Large two storied house
    74. Unidentified river scene
    75. Balmain Post Office and Court House
    76. House with two flags flying
    77. Circular Quay
    78-87. Unidentified sailing ships and paddletugs in Sydney harbour
    88. Man with penny farthing bicycle
    89. Penny farthing bicycle
    90-91. Two men with bicycles
    92-95. Portraits, people in costumes
    96. Boating scene, probably Papua New Guinea
    97. Naked man with pipe on jetty
    98-100. Graveyard, probably Papua New Guinea
    101-103. Unidentified tools, probably Papua New Guinea

    SLIDES 144

    1. European woman with two Papua New Guinean women
    2. Fishing scene, probably Papua New Guinea
    3. Men sitting beside tent made from rowing oars and blankets
    4-5. Group in bushland setting
    6. Two women in garden
    7. Portrait of three woman
    8. Three men overlooking Como Railway bridge on Georges River
  • Access Conditions

    Access via appointment
  • General note

    Glass negatives were unidentified and these were captioned by the cataloguer. Note there may be some misidentifications.
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