Three albums of photographs and pictorial material relating to John Dunmore Lang and family, ca. 1870-1927

PXA 1648 Boxes 1-2

series

ca. 1870-1927

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Prints, Ephemera

902726

3 albums (12 photographs, 96 photographs, 19 photographs) - green, olive green & dark red covers - 25 x 25.5 cm or smaller
2 prints - hand-tinted lithograph, halftone - 22 x 16.5 cm or smaller
3 ephemera items - greeting cards, coloured - 9 x 13 cm or smaller
3 photographs - black & white, one mounted - 10.5 x 17 cm or smaller

John Dunmore Lang (1799-1878), Presbyterian clergyman, politician, educationist, immigration organiser, historian, anthropologist and journalist, was born on 25 August 1799 at Greenock, Scotland, the eldest son of William Lang and Mary Dunmore. His father was a small landowner and his mother a pious Presbyterian, who dedicated her son to the Church of Scotland ministry from an early age. Arriving in Sydney Cove on 23 May 1823, he became the first Presbyterian minister in the colony of New South Wales. On the way back from the second of his nine voyages to Britain (1830–31), he married his 18-year-old cousin Wilhelmina Mackie at Cape Town, and were together for 47 years. The Langs had ten children; only three of whom survived him, and there were no grandchildren.

Reference: Australian Dictionary of Biography, retreived 18 January, 2013.

This pictorial material is part of Wilhelmina Lang scrapbook at MLMSS 5144

Box 1

(1) Small album, dark cover, 19 photographs, studio portraits of family members taken by Sydney Photographers Creelman & Freeman, ca. 1870, photographs not identified.

(2) 2 prints; hand-tinted lithograph of Rothesay West (Bute, Scotland), 8 June, 1927, with inscription 'With Cousin Maggie's love. This is where my little home is.'; Half-tone print 'Coming Home From Market', advertisement for Geo. Roe & Co. Whiskey, Dublin; 3 coloured greeting cards issued by Murdoch's Sydney, addressed to Robyn and Stuart Thomas.

Box 2

(3) Small green covered album titled 'Photographs', inscribed inside front cover 'with best love and all Christmas wishes from Nell, Christmas 1906.', containing 12 photographs, 3 captions (Coogee Baths, views of house, groups of women).

(4) Medium olive green covered album with no inscriptions or captions, 96 photographs of family and residences, ca. 1900-1910.

Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.6696 as part of the eRecords Project 2012-13

Medium olive green covered album water stained, many images faded and of poor quality. Small album, dark covers in very poor condition, photographs in good condition