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Title
Album 50: Photographs of the Allen family, May 1909 - 12 October 1909
Call number
PX*D 589
Level of description
item
Date

May 1909 - 12 October 1909
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
879702
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 album (180 photographs on 60 pages) - silver albumen - 31 x 42 cm
Scope and Content
Album includes views of Jenolan Caves; Review of Boy Scouts in Centennial Park; the South Coast including Bald HIll, Stanwell Park, Clifton; Macquarie Street, Sydney; H.M.S. Powerful; Randwick Races - the running of the Metropolitan Handicap in which Maltius came last; Point Piper from Rona; Moombara, residence, Port Hacking, (Allen's); Church Point and Pittwater; Newport; Manly; Admiralty House grounds; Harll, reidence (Allen's)

Social scenes of Lord Chelmsford sworn in as Governor - procession in Martin Place 28/5/1909; Lieutenant Dudley North's marriage to Eglantine Campbell 21/9/1909, reception at Fiona; party at the Dangar's residence, La Corniche at Bayview; Yaralla children's party; marriage of Daisie Willis to Colin Parbury, reception at E. W. Knox Rona, Belleview Hill.

Portraits include members of the Allen family, Madame Melba and her car, W. Boyce Allen.
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

Digital order no:Album ID : 893522
Subject
children
Adult Females
Adult Males
Melba, Nellie, Dame, 1861-1931
Topic
wedding receptions
weddings
houses
horse racing
boy scouts
Place
Centennial Park (Sydney, N.S.W.)
South Coast (N.S.W.)
Randwick Racecourse (N.S.W.)
Admiralty House (Kirribilli, N.S.W.)
Jenolan Caves (N.S.W.)
Exhibited in

An Edwardian Summer: Sydney and surrounds through the lens of Arthur Allen - Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (11 December, 2010, 25 April, 2011)
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