976957
- TitleFamily photographs, postcards, commemorative bookmarks and stamps relating to the Marks family, 1842-1944
- Creator
- Call numberPXE 1144
a6171 Online - Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
1842-1944 - Type of material
- Reference code976957
- Issue CopyPartly Digitised : a6171 Online
- Physical Description41 photographs - albumen, gelatin silver - 35.5 x 25 cm or smaller
5 commemorative stamps - 4 x 2.5 cm
1 album (135 postcards) - 37.5 x 21.5 cm
2 bookmarks - woven col. silk - 30 x 5.5 cm or smaller
2 photographic prints and 1 ephemera item (postcards) - 9 x 14 cm or smaller
2 negatives - nitrate - 8.8 x 11.6 cm or smaller - ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Percy Joseph Marks (1867-1941), solicitor and historian, and Ernest Samuel Marks (1871-1947), woolbuyer, politician and sportsman, were born on 12 November 1867 and on 7 May 1871 at West Maitland, New South Wales, eldest sons of Joseph Marks, London-born storekeeper, and his native-born wife Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Benjamin. Their father became a woolbuyer and the family moved to Sydney in 1882; the brothers were educated at Royston College, Darlinghurst. Percy attended the University of Sydney (B.A., 1887), was articled to Creagh & Williams and, admitted a solicitor on 6 June 1891, set up in practice.
From 1912 Percy acted as unofficial historian of Australian Jewry. He was a council-member of the (Royal) Australian Historical Society in 1912-18 and published many articles and pamphlets including two bibliographies, Australasian Shakespeareana (1915) and Australian Judaica (1930, 1936). He was a committee-member of the Australian Ex-Libris Society, the Society of Australian Genealogists and the Numismatic Society, and a fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute.
In 1888-90 Ernest won over forty trophies as an athlete. He was a founder and executive-member of the New South Wales Amateur Athletic Association, the Amateur Athletic Union of Australasia and the International Amateur Athletic Federation; vice-chairman of the New South Wales Olympic Council and the Australian Olympic Federation and chairman of the Australian division of the British Empire Games.....
Reference:
Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/marks-ernest-samuel-7777 (Accessed 21/5/12)
Forms part of the papers of the Marks family at MLMSS 2718 - Scope and ContentPXE 1144
Postcards, photographs, bookmarks and stamps relating to the Marks family, ca. 1842-1944
Includes:
Album of postcard views of regional Australia with newspaper clippings
Invitations to Annual Balls and Dinners of The Suburban Bicycle Club, May 1901 - June 1906
Photograph of 'Army Authorities carrying out exhaustive tests with the new patent Marconi wireless telegraphic "Park Station" apparatus', U.K.
5 stamps featuring five members of the Pioneers of Zionism - Samuel Mohilever, Yehuda Leib Pinsker, Moses Hess, Moses Montefiore and Theodor Herzl
2 woven coloured silk bookmarks - 'In commemoration of the Hebrew Ladies' Bazaar Sydney 5636-1875'. One bookmark depicts Moses in the bulrushes with text in English and Hebrew
a6171 Online
2 unidentified negatives - Appraisal NoteNegatives digitised and destroyed. December 2012
- Copying ConditionsOut of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales - General note
Keyword subjects:
Adelphi Theatre
Barry Railway Company (Wales)
Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.3139 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012
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