Pictures and realia from the papers of Marjorie Barnard, 31 August 1848-1970

PXE 1166
MIN 471
MIN 472
R 1124

fonds

31 August 1848-1970

Graphic Materials, Objects, Photographs, Prints, Watercolours, Medals

909883

6 photographic prints - 20.5 x 14 cm. or smaller (inside mount), 37 x 25.5 cm. (mounted)
3 silhouettes - ca. 9.5 x 7cm.
1 lock of human hair - 9 x 14.5 cm. (envelope)
4 medals - metal, mounted or in boxes - 8.5 x 6 cm. (mounted medal) or smaller
1 photographic print - framed - 23 x 23 cm.
3 photographic prints - miniatures - 13.5 x 8.5 cm. or smaller
20 prints - includes etchings - 14 x 16 cm. or smaller
1 watercolour - 13 x 18.5 cm.

Marjorie Faith (Marjory) Barnard (1897-1987), writer and historian, was born on 16 August 1897 at Ashfield, Sydney, only child of Sydney-born parents Oswald Holme Barnard, clerk, and his wife Ethel Frances, née Alford, and was baptised in the Anglican church

At the University of Sydney (BA, 1920) Barnard graduated with first-class honours and the university medal in history. Well regarded by the history professor George Arnold Wood, she was offered a scholarship to the University of Oxford. However her father, now a strict Presbyterian, prevented her from taking it up

Barnard began work at the Public Library of New South Wales, where she topped library school examinations in 1921. Later she was transferred to Sydney Technical College, where she was librarian-in-charge from 1925. She pursued her writing at night. Her first book, short stories of childhood entitled The Ivory Gate, was published by Henry Champion in 1920

Reference:
Australian Dictionary of Biography http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/barnard-marjorie-faith-marjory-12176 (accessed 25 June, 2012)

PXE 1166
Portrait of Oswald Holme Barnard (father of Marjorie Barnard), aged 3 years [?], 1870 [?]

Portrait of Oswald Holme Barnard taken at the time of his marriage

3 portraits of Ethel Francis Barnard (mother of Marjorie Barnard), one as a young child, another at the time of her marriage in 1894 and finally in middle age

Small portrait of Marjorie Barnard taken at the age of 18 months in 1899

Portrait of Ethel Francis Barnard taken by Dorothy Welding in the 1940s

3 traditional silhouettes being of Charles Beresford Mainstone (great grandfather of Marjorie Barnard), Geraldine Mainstone (eldest daughter of Charles Beresford) and Isabel Alice Mainstone (younger sister of Geraldine)

2 limited edition prints (from etchings) and 1 watercolour with accompanying published explanatory text (by Leon Woizikowsky and Harold Byrne) of female ballet dancers by Harold Byrne made from sketches made during performances of Col. de Basil's Monte Carlo Co., 1937

18 prints of Marjorie Barnard's bookplate made by Harold Byrne, 1936

ML 1448
Framed portrait of Marguerite Barnard (nee Holmes), grandmother of Marjorie Barnard as a young woman

MIN 471
Frame containing photographs of 2 small drawings of Marjorie Barnard's maternal grandparents

MIN 472
Miniature of Ethel Francis Barnard (being the same image as the photograph taken by Dorothy Welding)

R 1124
Item 1
Lock of hair from the infant head of Charles Beresford Mainstone, 31 August 1848

Item 2
Sydney University Medal for History, awarded to Marjorie Barnard in 1920

Item 3
Medal commemorating the Coronation of King George, 12 May 1937 (with accompanying certificate. Certificate is housed in PXE 1166) forwarded to Marjorie Barnard

Item 4
Medal commemorating the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, 2 June 1953 (with accompanying certificate. Certificate is housed in PXE 1166) forwarded to Marjorie Barnard

Item 5
Mounted medal commemorating the bi-centenary of Captain Cook's landing in Australia, 1970

Forms part of MLMSS 2809

Access via appointment - Applies to MIN 471, MIN 472, and R 1124

Information about the material supplied by the donor via attached notes

Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.3277 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012