Stephen family - collection of photographs being mainly studio portraits of Stephen family members, 1858-1949

PXA 1024

series

ca. 1858-1949

Graphic Materials, Photographs

826133

174 photographic prints - includes 43 carte de visite, 38 cabinet photographs, 3 panel card photographs, 3 platinum prints, 1 tintype - 25.4 x 21.3 cm or smaller

BOX 1
1-9. Sir Alfred Stephen, ca. 1869-1884. Includes portraits by J. Hubert Newman, Duryea, and Tuttle & Co.
10-15. William "Billy" Bedford Stephen, ca. 1864-1887. Includes portraits by Foster & Martin, Dalton, and Freeman Brothers.
16-18. Cecil Stephen, ca. 1860's-1880's. Includes portrait by Dalton.
19-21. Edward Bedford [Edward Samuel Pickard Bedford, ca. 1858-1870's]. Includes portraits by J. Hubert Newman, and Alfred Bock (Hobart Town).
22. Edward Milner Stephen, ca. 1869-1874 / J. Hubert Newman
23-24. Sir M.H. Stephen [i.e. Matthew Henry, ca. 1891-1900], portraits by Freeman & Co.
25. Septimus Stephen, 7th son of Sir Alfred
26-27. Alfred Percival Bedford, ca. 1891-1900 / Freeman & Co.
28. [Montagu aged 17, Adrian aged 13, and Leslie aged 3, 1905] / Freeman & Co.
29. Lieut. Adrian Consett Stephen (1st World War) Killed March 1918 / Lafeyette London
30. [Bob Stephen] / Vandyk
31. [E.L. Montefiore / panel photograph by H.King] Inscribed on paper label on reverse, "With E.L.M's / Kind regards & best / wishes."
32-41. [Unidentified males, ca. 1865-1918]

BOX 2
42. "Fathers Mother" [on front of image] "Mrs William Bedford, mother of Lady Stephen" [on reverse in a different hand. Below this in another hand,] "My Mother in her 84th yr" / Freeman Brothers
43-45. Lady Stephen. Includes portraits by Dalton, William Bradley, and J. Hubert Newman.
46-47. [Eleanor Stephen]. Inscribed on reverse, "Aunt Nellie"
48. Alice [Stephen, 1865] / Bradley & Allen
49. Saidee Consett Stephen Feby 1865 / Bradley & Allen
50-51. Agnes and Mary Stephen, ca. 1865
52. [Mary Anne Stephen] Febry 1865 / Bradley & Allen
53. [Agnes Stephen, 1865] / Bradley & Allen
54-55. Saidee Stephen / Charlemont
56. [Unidentified female] / Freeman Brothers
57. [Alice, Saidee, Agnes, and Mary Anne Stephen, ca. 1869] / Oswald Allen
58. [Alice or Saidee Stephen, ca, 1875-1880] / J. Hubert Newman
59-65. Agnes Victoria Bedford (nee Stephen), ca. 1880-1900. Includes portrait with child and photographs by Freeman & Co., J. Hubert Newman, Yeoman Studios Prahran, and Swiss Studio
66-67. Sylvia Bedford, ca. 1883 / J. Hubert Newman
68-71. Sylvia Bedford 9 1/2, Ruth 5 1/4, Freda 16 months exactly, 7th Nov. 87 [i.e. 1887. 4 copies, 2 with floral borders] / J. Hubert Newman
72. Sylvia 15 years & 1/4, Ruth 11 yrs, Freda 7 yrs & 1 mth, 1st Aug./93 / Freeman & Co.
73. [Sylvia Bedford, ca. 1893] / The Rococo Portrait, The Crown Studios
74. Sylvia Bedford [passport photograph]
75. [Freda? and Ruth Bedford, ca. 1898]
76-79. Ruth Marjorie Bedford, 1883-1896. Includes portraits by Freeman & Co., J. Hubert Newman, and The Crown Studios
80. Elsie Stephen, Rebecca Stephen (nee Cox), Maude Stephen, ca. 1890-1898 / Charlemont & Co
81. Margaret Crawford and Frances Mac [Derwent?] / Jas. C. Cruden
82. Norman, Cecilia, A.J.S Septr. 1878 / Freeman late Oswald Allen
83. [Group of five children], ca. 1873-1879 / Freeman
84. [Woman holding two babies] ".... Love from Cousin Alice" on reverse / H.C. Beavis
85. Caroline Stephen [nee Shadforth, wife of Matthew Henry Stephen] / Bullingham
86. Kate Corbett Stephen / C. & B. Macfarlane
87-88. Mabel Ethene Consett Stephen [hand-coloured c.d.v.]
89-105. [Unidentified portraits of children and women from various studios including Chas. A. Wooley, W. Bradley, Daltons, J. Hubert Newman, Oswald Allen, Falk Studios, and Judith Fletcher]
107. [Three women in evening dress], 1888 / J. Thomson to the Queen
108. [Woman with child], ca. 1919-1920 / Jas. Cruden

BOX 3
109-111. [Alfred Percival Beford and Agnes Victoria Stephen's wedding portraits, ca. 1869-1874] / J. Hubert Newman
112. [Unidentified male and female, ca. 1890] / C. Vandyk
113-149. [Unidentified photographs that consists of people and groups engaged in social activities such as picnics, tennis, lawn bowls, and sport, as well as informal family snapshots and street photography, mainly 1920's-1940's]
150. Val and Freda, ca. 1940
151. Sylvia Bedford, ca. 1935-1937
152. Oliver, Ruby, Christopher George & Dorothy Xmas 1949
153-154. Henric, Tricia, & Bettina, 1946-1949
155. Oliver, 13, with "games" & cricket cups which as Captain he held for his house, in the Junior School
156-157. Timothy Stephen Southwall Kelly, 1944
158. [Class Upper V.A, Girl's School, at Normanhurst, 30 Nov. 1896. Names of females are listed on reverse]
159. Going into church with father 14th April 1937 [wedding photograph]
160. [Wedding photograph showing bride and groom on steps of church, unidentified]
161-162. [Interiors of a house showing living rooms]
163. Home of Mrs & Mrs A.P. Bedford, .... Petersham. Ruth & Freda were born here ...
164. [Garden tended by a female with street view in background]
165. 45 Hill Street [house with sundeck]
166-168. [Views of St. Jude's Church, Randwick - exterior, interior, and cemetery]

Photographer's stamp on the reverse of many images.
Several photographs are identified on the reverse in a contemporary or later hand.
Nos 166-168 identified by Bev Ottara (Nov 2005)

Nos. 10 and 11 are respectively inscribed on the reverse, "Alice M. Stephen 18th Feb./64" and Saidee C. Stephen 18 February 1864"
No.27 is signed, "A.P. Bedford / May 1895"
No.37 is inscribed, "With affectionate [?] / regards / from / J.K."
No.41 has text on the reverse addressed to "Miss Bedford".
No.97 is inscribed on the reverse, "With best love from / Janet Stephen"
Nos. 98-101 were originally in an album page but were cut out at an unknown date.
No.162 is inscribed on reverse, "S. [or F] C. Stephen"

The majority of photographs are dated by: The mechanical eye in Australia : photography 1841-1900 / Alan Davies & Peter Stanbury ; with assistance from Con Tanre. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985