Series 2: Photographs and drawings collected by Mrs Constance Robertson during her career as a journalist and social columnist / Mrs Constance Robertson

PXA 29
PXA 30

series

No date

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings

853419

350 photographs
20 drawings - pencil, pen and ink - various sizes

PXA 29 contains non-Australian material only.

PXA 30 contains photographs which include World War II Servicewomen, Nancy Bird on K.L.M. Dutch Airlines invitation trip, portraits of Australian and New Zealand writers, Australian Aborigines in W.A. 1914-1915 and Melanesian natives. Drawings include caricatures by Pixie O'Harris of prominent Australians ca. 1933. Titles for drawings include:
1. Cartoon satire with reference to Joynton (f.176)
2. Nautical note Capt. Denison towed his Barque into the Harbour to day- (f.177)
3. The Chicken's last walk to the Wood Heap [Denison & Co.] (f.178)
4. Jack and the Bean Stork (f.179) [Cartoon on the cruel treatment of the Newspaper Art staff]
Nos. 2, 5, 8, 9-12, 15 are photographs of women telegraphists in the Women's Royal Australian Navy Service
Nos. 151-166 are photographs of Alfred George Stephens, Mrs Robertson's father, & the Stephen family, including trhee portraits of Constance Robertson.
Metal plate painted 'Bookfellow Constance Stephens Proprietor' is at R 364

PXA 30/p.110 - Aileen Alpin - Journalist, broadcaster, lecturer, teacher, interpreter, musician and linguist

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009

Keyword subjects:
Authors, New Zealand
Grimshaw, Beatrice
Bird, Nancy