• Title
  Family and personal photographs collected by P.L. Travers, ca 1891-1980
• Call number
  PX*D 334
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca 1891-1980
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs, Prints
• Reference code
  826203
• Issue Copy
  Digitised : nos. 24 & 28
  
• Physical Description
  1 portfolio (51 black and white, sepia, col. photographs, 2 photograph albums, 1 hand coloured lithograph, 17 coloured transparencies) various sizes
  
• Scope and Content
  The collection includes photographs by Paul C. Poulsen, Maryborough; Freeman & Co. Ltd, Sydney and Speer Studio, Bowral. Some photographs are of original sketches, including one by Agar. Dated approximately by apparent age of Margaret Morehead (later Goff, no's 1 & 2) and period Freeman & Co. Ltd. occupied their 318 George St. Sydney address, see Davies, Alan and Stanbury, Peter, 'The Mechanical eye in Australia', Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985. Most of the photographs are identified by the collector.
  
  Also included in this collection are photographs of P.L Travers' parents, Margaret and Travers Robert Goff ; her sister, Moya ; her adopted son Camillus ; her friend AE (George William Russell ; childhood and publicity photographs of P.L. Travers ; the Goff family home in Maryborough, Qld. ; The Pound Cottage, Sussex where Travers wrote 'Mary Poppins' ; a souvenir album of P.L. Travers' period as a writer in residence at Whitman Hall, Radcliffe College, Harvard University, 1965-66 ; a souvenir album of her period as writer in residence at Smith College, 1966 and a hand-coloured lithograph of a caricature of W.B. Yeats and AE by Mac. Also included are colour stills from the 1964 film, 'Mary Poppins', starring Julie Andrews ; transparencies of two roses named in honour of 'Mary Poppins' and Pamela Travers' ' and mantle piece ornaments referred to in the chapter titled 'The faithful friends' in Travers, Pamela Lyndon. Mary Poppins in the park. London : Collins, 1966.
• Finding Aids
  Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
• General note
  
  Keyword subjects:
  
  Mac
  Speer Studio, Bowral
  Poulsen, Paul C.
  Maryborough (residence)
  Goff, Helen Lyndon
  Goff, Margaret, ca. 1891-1927
  Travers, Camillus
  Goff, Travers Robert
  Yeats, W.B.
  Freeman & Co. Ltd.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 874362
• Name
  Travers, P. L. (Pamela Lyndon), 1899-1996
  Russell, George William
  
• Topic
  portraits
  

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