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909936
  • Title
    George William Robertson, pictorial collection, ca. 1880-1889
  • Creator
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1880-1889
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    909936
  • Physical Description
    2 photographs - black & white - various sizes
  • Scope and Content
    ITEM 01
    Photograph of George Robertson, [ca. 1880]

    ITEM 02
    Photograph of employees of George Robertson, ca. 1897
  • General note

    It is probable that the employees in the mounted photograph were the employees who signed the illuminated address at XV/54 -- Mitchell File.

    Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.4283 as part of the eRecords Project 2012-13
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Transcribed from label on frame: Ernie Newman, The picture framer, 200 King Street, Newtown. Phone LA 1232. No. 5744.
  • Attributions / conjectures

    Image is either George Robertson, (senior) the founder of Robertson & Mullens, bookseller and publishers. Or, his son, George Robertson (junior). From Victorian Births, marriages and deaths it is more probable that this is George Robertson (junior) born in 1858, son to George and Lavina Robertson.
  • Date note

    No date. Dates based on illuminated address at XV/54.
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