Souvenir to M.E. Jull, Under Secretary, Department for Works, Perth, 1898; scenes of the Suez Canal and Perth, ca. 1898-ca. 1910

PXE 1298

fonds

1898-ca. 1910

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Prints

910031

1 album (22 prints and 15 albumen photoprints) - approx. 28.5 x 38.5 cm
1 photographic print - platinum, panel, copy of 18 photographs in a mount - image 20 x 14.5 cm; mount approx. 30 x 24 cm

F.W. Percy was a public servant in Perth. He moved to Sydney in 1904.

Reference:
Library Correspondence file

Portrait panel
Print of individual vignette portraits of civil servants in Perth, 1898. Portaits include M.E. Jull, Under Secretary for the Department of Works (centrepiece), G. Higgins, T.S. McNulty, G.G. Black, G. Berry, A.S. Forbes, R.L. Creagh, C.A. Munt, F.L Stronach, F.W. Percy, A.E. Sanderson, G. Conway, L.B. Chase. Inscription printed bottom centre: 'To M.E. Jull, Esq., A souvenir of November 1898'. (Inscription on mount: Greenham & Evans, Platinotype, Barrack Street, Perth)

Album
Depicts the Suez Canal and Port Said; public buildings, street scenes, churches and gardens in Perth; F.W. Percy's home Scrivelsby in Perth, a picnic scene with F.W.Percy reclining in the front row and a portrait of his son Leonard as a child.

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
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