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909983
  • Title
    Item 26: World War photographs, family photographs, watercolours and pencil sketches of G. W. Lambert, ca. 1881-1930
  • Call number
    PXA 1349
  • Level of description
    file
  • Date

    ca. 1881-1930
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    909983
  • Physical Description
    53 drawings (36 folios) - pencil
    1 drawing - watercolour
    Approximately 120 photographic prints - chiefly gelatin silver
    3 p. - printed
  • Scope and Content
    This pictorial material is part of the Lambert Family papers, 1874-1942 at MLMSS 97

    Folder 1 (30 drawings - 18 folios, 12 double-sided)
    Drawings on SS Persic to England, 1900

    Folder 2
    Miscellaneous drawings (23 drawings - 18 folios, 2 photographic copies)
    Now then, by number
    Soldier, 1917
    Kingsford-Smith's father on a menu card for Kingsford-Smith luncheon, Hotel Australia, June 1928
    16th-18th century male costume designs
    John Longstaff
    Luigi with coin, 1914 (copy)
    The digger's sweetheart (copy)

    Folder 3 (Approximately 75 photographs, snapshots, postcards)
    Personal photographs, including,
    Dulcie, Ginge & "old Tim", 1925
    Guy Nield on horseback
    Lambert and Gordon Macleod, Consul to Siam & children
    Postcards home
    Horses and animals
    Sir Granville Ryrie
    Lieutenant Colonel Mick Bruxner, 6th Light Horse
    Lambert with portrait of Sir Alison Russell, "The actress" partially seen
    Colonel Todd's horse Batanooka

    Folder 4 (27 photographs and postcards)
    World War I, including,
    Royal Flying Corps on the Western Front (official British war photographs)
    Light Horse in Palestine (official British war photographs)

    Folder 5 (16 photographs, 2 prints)
    Photographs from the memoir of G.W. Lambert with relevant page number:
    Julian Rossi Ashton (photograph of a Lambert drawing) / Sydney Mail
    [Lambert with sculpture of a seated man] p.198 / E.A. Bradford
    Off the island of Skye (p.48)
    Lambert as Lord Seymour in Chelsea pageant / Kate Pragnell
    Lambert and The Unknown Soldier, St Mary's Cathedral / E.A. Bradford
    Lambert and The Unknown Soldier, St Mary's Cathedral / Cazneaux
    Lambert on horseback
    George in his 8th year / Wilhelm Meyer, Esslingen (p.14)
    Lambert aged 50 / photographer probably Rudolf Buchner, or May/Mina Moore (p.175)
    Billie Hughes / E.A. Bradford (p.196)
    Self-portrait (p.156)
    The Mother of G.W. Lambert "Won by a head", with inscription from Annie Lambert to Marion (p.25)
    Lambert with Light Horse (p.106)
    Lambert with Pan's head

    R.B. Cunninghame Graham and Pinto

    Most of the photographers' stamps are on photographs in Folder 5
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Created before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Description source

    Information transferred from pictures accessions register as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
  • General note

    Transferred from Pic.Acc.4319, December 2011
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