• Title
  Item 01: Illuminated address presented by the staff of British Australasian Tobacco Co. Ltd., July 1907, to William Dixson, Assistant Managing Director, on the occasion of his departure for a holiday overseas / illuminated by John Sands
• Call number
  DLWD 85/Item 1
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  July 1907
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Prints, Drawings
• Reference code
  955892
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 print - watercolour, pen and ink - image 47.6 x 35.8 cm., on sheet 54.5 x 41.7 cm., rolled in gold tooled leather with silk lining cover, 69.2 x 44.5 cm., tied with tasseled orange cord
  
• Scope and Content
  Includes an illustration of the premises built by Sir Hugh Dixson known as `Dixson's Corner' at the corner of Park and Elizabeth streets. The address is surrounded by drawings of flora including flannel flowers.
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1014656
• Conservation note
  
  The silk ribbon holding the address to the leather roll is frayed and damaged.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  John Sands (Firm)
  British Australasian Tobacco Co. Ltd.
  
• Name
  Dixson, William, Sir, 1870-1952
  
• Subject
  Dixson Library (N.S.W.)
  
• Topic
  addresses, illuminated
  
• Place
  Dixson & Sons Tobacco Works (corner Elizabeth and Park Streets, Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A passion for collecting: Sir William Dixson - State Library of New South Wales (8 April - 11 August, 2013)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE462257

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