Series 07: Photographs and relics from the Leon Gellert papers, ca. 1895-1977

PXB 622
PXA 1560/Boxes 1-2
ON 483
R 1177
SLIDES 211
NCY 25/3-9

series

ca. 1895-1977

Graphic Materials, Objects, Photographs, Ephemera, Prints

909790

2 albums (18 photographic prints) - 26 x 20 cm. or smaller
340 photographic prints - 31 x 24 cm. or smaller
2 items of ephemera - postcards - 9 x 14 cm.
11 slides - col. - 5 x 5 cm.
1 watch - metal, leather, glass - 13 x 3 cm.
1 wood block - wood - 5 x 5 cm.
1 wallet - leather - 10 x 21 cm.
1 book cover - leather - 29.5 x 43 cm.
43 negatives - col.
2 prints - 14 x 14 cm.

Leon Maxwell Gellert, 1892-1977, served with the 10th Battalion, A.I.F. which participated in the landing at Gallipoli during World War I. His collection of poems, Songs of a campaign, 1917, was based on his experiences there. His other publications include The Isle of San, 1919, These beastly Australians, 1944, Week after week, 1953 and Year after year, 1956. He was co-editor of The Home magazine and joined the staff of The Sydney Morning Herald in 1942 as literary editor and feature writer. From 1961 until 1969 he worked for the Daily Telegraph

PXB 622
Album containing 14 photographic prints, 1918
Features portraits of Leon Gellert, Norman Lindsay, 'Miss Lindsay', Kathleen Saunders [future wife of Leon Gellert]

PXA 1560
Box 1
Album containing 4 photographic prints being portraits of Kathleen Saunders/Gellert(?), no date

PXA 1560
Box 2
340 loose photographic prints, ca. 1895-1977
Includes many portraits of Leon Gellert and his wife as well as portraits of Norman Lindsay, a portrait of Leon as a toddler with his mother, pictures of the family home and garden, an unnamed parade through the streets of Sydney, family pets, 3 photos of Eyre Jnr caricatures, group portrait of World War I soldiers featuring Leon Gellert, portraits of World War II service women [names on reverse], swimming in Sydney Harbour

2 postcards, both with photographic images taken in World War I hospitals

2 prints of bird drawings by Lionel Lindsay, both signed by him, 'to Leon with everyone's affections, Jan 1933'

ON 483
43 colour negatives, ca. 1970s, mostly portraits of Leon Gellert and photographs of the family garden

SLIDES 211
11 colour slides, ca. 1970s, being portraits of Leon and Kathleen Gellert, their dog and a view of Sydney Harbour

R 1177
Item 1
1 wood block

Item 2
1 wristwatch [missing half its band]. Belonged to Leon Gillert, has 'L.G.' on the back

Item 3
1 blue leather book cover

Item 4
1 brown leather wallet

Forms part of MLMSS 3456

Access via appointment - Applies to ON 483, R 1177, SLIDES 211

Copyright restrictions may apply: Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright for the life of creator plus 70 years
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