William Bede Dalley, the younger, pictorial material, ca.1888-1912

PXE 1313
R 1189

fonds

ca.1888-1912

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings, Ephemera, Clippings, Objects

910779

2 albums (78 photographs) - leather bound - 31 x 26 cm. and 23.5 x 20 cm. (cover dimensions)
138 photographs - cabinet card, carte de visite and silver gelatin - between 4.5 x 6 cm. and 22 x 17 cm.
2 drawings - pencil, ink - 25.5 x 19.5 cm. and 15 x 10 cm.
5 ephemera items - postcards and newscutting
1 printing plate - 67 x 99 mm.

The donor, Mr Francis Howard, Chairman of the UK National Portrait Society, went to school with and was a close friend of W. B. Dalley the younger. The letters and photographs relating to William Bede Dalley were left with him many years earlier by W. B. Dalley the younger. The collection was forwarded to the Mitchell Library through the NSW Agent General's Office in London in December 1948 and formally acknowledged in June 1950.

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Photographs
33 chiefly carte-de-visite and cabinet card studio portraits including William Bede Dalley the elder, William Bede Dalley the younger's brothers and sisters John, Charles, Eleanor, and Mary, Mary's daughter Eileen Dalley, his first wife Pauline Fattorini and her sister, his second wife Katherine Cowell and his cousin Charles B. Martin.

98 snapshots and views including horses and carriages, hunting, houses.

7 silver gelatin photoprints made from nitrate negatives, showing two men digging and panning for gold in a small stream in an Australian eucalypt forest; original negative envelope marked 'Bull Flat Hut'. Prints made ca.1981 from original negatives ca.1900-1914

Albums
‘W.B.D.’ on cover. Cover dimensions 31 x 26 cm. 67 photographic prints, 15.5 x 21 cm. and 7.5 x 10 cm. Views, ca.1900: Slab hut, homestead buildings and children, land clearing, in a Victorian? bush location; river and timber truss bridge, skiffs and canoe on creek; views of ships and docks, Port Melbourne?, including ‘Linnea’ at Duke & Sons Dry Docks; Freemasons Tavern and Bay View Hotel in view. Family, horses and carriages at private estate in England?; city and wharf views, Hammond & Co Canterbury Bank, Queen St in view.

Tooled leather album. Cover dimensions 24 x 19 cm. 11 cabinet card and carte-de-visite photographs. Unidentified portraits and views, Melbourne?

Drawings
1 pencil portrait on card – signed “Will. Dyson” [?] at lower right. 25.5 x 19.5 cm.
1 ink sketch of a schoolboy walking and reading , initialed “I.R.M[?]” at lower right. 15 x 10 cm.

Ephemera
5 ephemera items : 4 postcards and 1 newscutting

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Visiting card printing plate, engraved "W. B. Dalley, 4 Verulam Buildings, Gray's Inn"

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Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Identification of portraits from Library officer's note on ML file, ca.1981.

This pictorial material is part of the William Bede Dalley, the younger, papers, 1888-1912, at MLMSS 135

Keyword subject:
Dalley, William Bede, the younger

7 nitrate negatives of Bull Flat Hut, ca.1900-1914, authorised for disposal by Curator of Photographs, February 2013.