Bowden family photographs, ca.1904-1954

PXD 1252

fonds

ca.1904-1954

Graphic Materials, Photographs

908711

4 albums (approx. 1000 photographs) - gelatin silver
6 photographs - mounted - 29 x 39 cm. or smaller

For biographical details about E. K. Bowden, see: John McCarthy, 'Bowden, Eric Kendall (1871–1931)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bowden-eric-kendall-5309/text8965

4 albums:

Album inscribed “To Biffling from Bobbie Christmas 1942” 178 photographs including “The E. K. Bs [Bowdens] and party at “the Sandpatch”, Wentworth Falls, about 1904”, and members of Bowden, Johnston, Hurd, Hocking, Winter, Whitehead, Bembriek, families, 1929, 1942-1954; “Wanslea” [property], March 1946.

Album, “Newspaper cuttings” printed on cover. Approx. 103 photographs, ca.1923-1924, including North Coast [automobile] tour, near Lismore, 1920; group at Ooldea [railway station?]; Geraldton 1923; inauguration of Geraldton to Derby Aerial Service, 1923, including W. J. Trumble & Mr McLachlan; Aboriginal people at Geraldton, 1923; luncheon to Sir Harry Rawson, Easter [1928?]; Bells cast for St John’s, Parramatta, by Tayor’s Founders, Loughborough, England. Approx. 37 commercial prints and postcards of views including Perth and Fremantle

Album inscribed to Keith from mother, Christmas 1913. Approx. 271 snapshots of convict features at Lapstone, and Woodford, Bull’s Camp and Emu Plains; Sir G. Strickland at Mt Victoria; Donnerhoe’s Grave; outdoor activities at Woodford; Woodford Academy; Blackheath; Cronulla, Easter 1914; Brisbane; Parramatta; Hazelbrook, Jenolan Caves.

Album inscribed to Keith from mother, January 1915. Approx. 450 snapshots, 1915-1920, of friends and family including A. B. Clarke, Judith and Geoffrey Woodhill, Thelma Wall, Hutton Vaccini, Crayton Burns; Sydney University Company, AIF, September 1918; inoculation, Parramatta Town Hall, April 1920; views of Lawson, Sydney, Parramatta (including “Endrim”), Hazlebrook, Glenbrook, “Carara” (Woodhill’s home) at Wentworth Falls, blast furnaces at Lithgow, Summer Hill Bible Class at Worinora River (i.e. Woronora River), “Pi Nui” (house) at Mt Irvine, Cronulla, Bathurst, Summer Hill, Newington College, Burwood MLC, Bemery homestead at Bourke, Nepean River; AIF Day procession, Sydney, 1918

6 mounted photographs: portraits of J. W. Edgeworth David; Governor-General Lord Forster; NSW House of Representatives, 1924, with key; group assembled in front of building with Billy Hughes

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
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