Interior and exterior views of St. Malo, Hunter's Hill, 1881, [copies made] 1990

PXE 1564

fonds

1990

Graphic Materials, Photographs

903238

5 photoprints - copy, black & white

Frenchmen, Didier Joubert (1816–81) and his brother Jules (1824–1907), who migrated to Australia from the Bordeaux area of France in the 1830s. Didier Joubert, a wine and spirit merchant who ran a business in Sydney town, settled in Hunters Hill in 1847. He purchased Mary Reibey's Figtree Farm, now Joubert Street, and once his brother Jules joined him in 1854, they began building sandstone villas and laying out subdivisions. When the expressway was built over the Lane Cove and Parramatta rivers in the early 1960s, cutting through the suburb, it resulted in the loss of Didier Joubert's gracious residence St Malo (c1856), demolished in 1961. (Source: Dictionary of Sydney)

PXE 1564

Copy photoprints of the residence, St. Malo, of Didier Joubert in 1881.

1. Garden scene showing family and horse. Harbour in background.

2. Drawing room.

3. Dining room.

4. View at rear of house.

5. Old jetty from the bottom of Mount Street, Hunters Hill, looking north up Lane Cove River. (2 copies; different sizes).

FM2/2089
Negatives of above.

Photographs were originally taken by Excelsior Photo Comp., 78 King St., Sydney, B. Goode, Manager.

Copyright status:: In copyright, created after 1955
Approval for reproduction required: of the owner Mrs. Y. Walker

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