Leo Schofield collection of photographs, ca.1865-1980

PXE 1320

fonds

ca.1865-1980

Graphic Materials, Photographs

911125

1 album (30 photographs) - carte-de-visite photographs in leather photo album with brass clasps - cover dimensions 16 x 12.5 cm.
238 photographs - carte-de-visite, cabinet card, tintype and silver gelatin - between 2 x 2 cm. and 16 x 23 cm.

The cartes de visite and other 19th century photographs were acquired by Mr Leo Schofield in photograph albums he purchased. They were extracted and presented to the Library as loose photographs -- ML file

Leather-bound carte de visite album with brass clasps. Inscribed in ink on flyleaf: “M. A. [Morris? Morriss? Morries?] a gift from her Mamma. Browley[?] March 17th/65”. 30 carte de visite photographs, chiefly portraits. Includes photograph of ‘Glenrock’, Marulan; horse-drawn coach outside building with ‘Royal Hotel, Tho. Cochrane’ on signage; and 28 unidentified studio portraits of men, women and children.

238 loose photographs: silver gelatin photoprints, cabinet cards and cartes de visite by studios in Sydney, Bathurst, Melbourne, Ballarat, Brisbane and Hobart, with original inscriptions, or identifications and transcriptions by Leo Schofield, including:

Exhibitor’s pass to Centennial International Exhibition featuring photograph of Madame de Alba; 19th and 20th century photographs of properties ‘Cliffbrook’, Coogee (demolished 1976); ‘Waimea’, Woollahra?; ‘Logan Brae’, Bathurst; ‘Granny Busby’s cottage, Bathurst’; ‘Leichhardt Town Hall, Pa crossing road in front of tram’; woman standing beside camel-drawn coach in front of Barwon Hotel, Brewarrina; ca.1935; memorial card of Hannah Maria Bawden, d. 27 May, 1897; Bessie Couriot[?], Hereford Steet, Glebe Point; various members of Lougher family, Sydney (N. N. Lougher, Dr Richard Lougher, Sarah Lougher, Hilda Lucy Lougher, Alleyne Gladys Lougher, Gertrude Lougher); Nisbet family, Bathurst (Uncle James Nisbet, Uncle John Nisbet, Edith Nisbet, Agnes Nisbet, John and Sarah Nisbet); photograph portrait of racehorse and pedigree collie owned by Lougher family; photograph portrait of Paderewski, with cutting of salutation in ink, ‘Yours truly I. J. Paderewski’, affixed to image; Frederic Maurice Murray Prior [child portrait]; Marian E. S. Ely, 1883; [ship] S. S. Trowbridge, Bunbury, Feb 9th ‘09.

Out of copyright: Applies to photographs created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

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

Includes photographs of the Nisbet family; James Nisbet, eldest son of the late James Nisbet of Glasgow, married Mary Jane Busby at Logan Brae, Bathurst on 6 September 1879 -- Marriage notices, The Queenslander, Saturday 4 October 1879, accessed via Trove, 30/10/2012

This pictorial material was presented together with Leo Schofield ephemera at
MLMSS 3830.

Keyword subject:
Cliffbrook (residence)
Waimea (residence)