Series 05: Photograph albums, loose photographs, negatives and keepsakes relating to the Leo Walsh papers, ca.1870-1975

PXE 1076
ON 448

series

ca.1870-1975

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Objects, Drawings

908780

124 negatives
1 silhouette
2 sketchbooks
1 pennant
1 serviette - paper, with gold stamped text
224 photographs - ambrotype, albumen, gelatin silver - various sizes
3 albums - tintype, gelatin silver photographs

PXE 1076
1 photo album titled inside front cover: "'Ardanda', Dulacca, purchased January 1950". Includes photographs relating to 'Ardanda'; snapshots of L. J. & M. Walsh; Pierre, Shirley, Peter & Paul (Gilet); Malcolm & Alastair Campbell at 'Myalla', Dulacca, 1951; and Gilet home at Seaforth.

1 photo album relating to 'Ronda Vale', west of Charleville, Sept 1953 to August 1960, and 'Cussawn', Mapleton Road, Nambour. Includes photos of Cathie, Betty, Melva; Eileen Coughlan & Margaret Walsh; Andrea Eklund and Lyn Day on horse 'Black Star'.

1 gem album containing unidentified tintype portraits

1 mounted family photographic portrait with names printed on paper overlay: Alf, Dave, Annie, Mum, Dad, Mabel

1 mounted wedding photo (Leo Walsh & wife?)

3 framed family portraits, unidentified

1 ambrotype, badly damaged, of unidentified male; image very obscure, extensive emulsion loss from glass

2 oval portraits, identified in biro on reverse: Charles Coughlan, and mother of Mary Coughlan

4 carte-de-visite photographs, including 2 portraits of Bill Cochrane, by G. C. Woolston & Co, Newcastle and two unidentified portraits, one addressed to Misses P. & M. Coughlan

9 cabinet card photographs and 6 other studio portraits, including Aunt Mary Coughlan; a young man in RAN uniform by Sidney Riley Studio, Pitt St, Sydney, inscribed; Rev. Ed Donnelly, Captain and chaplain to the British Army in South African war 1901 to 1915, to Les Walsh with best wishes September 1910; souvenir portrait of Alex Griffiths and wife? feeding birds at Currumbin Sanctuary, with polaroid portrait in returned serviceman attire

113 loose photographs, mainly family snapshots. Many subjects are identified by first name only, e.g. Jack, Frank and Kathleen. Recipients include Miss V. Farlow, Charlotte Vale via Wyandra. Inscribed names and messages include D. R. Coughlan, Michael & Maureen Kennedy; to the Walsh boys from E. L. Donnelly; My 'Edinbugh' parents Dad & Mother Walker with sunny Jim, Whitsuntide '19; Connie Banks & Frank & Gert Sr [Sister] MC; J. Silver Esq, practical Pug; Marjorie Butler c/o Mr Bordeau, Commercial Bank, Sydney; Nurses Coughlan & Boff; Mrs Reid (Nina) nee Cavanagh; Jack McGuire & sister; Bessie & Kathleen Gold; Barry Richards; the Mackenzie family [parents, four children, pony and dog]; Leo taken at Swan Hill, June 1940; Barney Vernon, Frank, Leo, Jack Phelan, July '36; 'The Jockey', Wallacia May 1924, 'Old Doc' ridden by a champion; Bill Jackson, Nambour, 1972 [with cat]; Veronica Rayner, school, South Dulacca; group portrait in front of Q.C.W.A., Sandgate, 1926 [double exposure]; In the [baison?] of Met Fox, you can pick Godfery [group of people in a field]; 66 Neil St, McLoughland, Coughlans & Miss Smallridge; Murilla private hospital, Miles; Family photo "On Gundi Windi selection", with family of five in front of slab hut, with horse cart and canopy used as annex, ca.1920?; Bathing, Sandgate 1924, M. Coughlan, M. Miller & girls; snaps of properties 'Carlin', 'Bendemeer', 'Jeslin', Palmer St, Windsor, Brisbane.

84 photographs in commercial photoprint envelopes, ca.1964-1973 (negatives transferred to ON 448). Includes snapshots of house relocation by lorry, 29 October 1964; Wedding, Margaret Day; dog 'Mac' asleep front door 'Cussawn' Aug 1973; Margaret & Hazel resting at Ted Jones new home 1973; Ted Jones fixing pipe in tree at his new home [Image?] Flat Rd, 1973; Marie Dobbyn & Leo, 'Cussawn', July 1973; Ella Hawker[?], Marie Dobbyn at 'Cussawn', June 1973; Peg Richards at 'Cussawn' August 1973; Bill Taff[?], C. Donevan [sic], Noosa, Nambour 1964. Some prints have date printed in border.

1 silhouette by S. John Ross, possibly of Leo Walsh

1 commemorative pennant, printed "With the compliments of the Warrego ex-P.O.W. Reunion Committee, Charleville, 5-3-60", and paper serviette, stamped with same text in gold

2 sketchbooks, one from Ronda Vale, Charleville, and one signed M. A. Walsh, 1953, with sketches of views at Blackall and Warrego

ON 448
124 b&w negatives transferred from commercial photoprint envelopes

Copyright restrictions may apply: Applies to photographs created after 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

ON 448: Negatives found with photoprints in commercial photo packets mostly did not correspond to the prints they were found with. Grouping of negatives has been retained in new envelopes as found in original envelopes. Prints and negatives originally in 16 commercial envelopes; prints have been retained in original envelopes. Where envelope contained only negatives with no information on envelope, envelope discarded.

Includes a hand-written "Key to old photo of mother & aunties, 1892", on notepaper

This pictorial material is part of the Leo J. Walsh papers, 1882-1975, previously at MLMSS 3307, transferred to MLMSS 8117

Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.3998 as part of the eRecords project 2011-2012

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