Album of Isabella Cameron Murray, left Sydney July 12th 1883, arrived in Sydney 1884, and photographs mainly of views of San Francisco, ca. 1880s

PXA 1656

fonds

ca. 1880s

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs, Watercolours, Ephemera, Drawings, Clippings, Objects

1012370

10 photographic prints - carte-de-visite, albumen, gelatin silver - various sizes
1 album (13 photographs, 3 watercolours, 2 drawings, 2 wax seals, 1 clippng, 1 ribbon, ephemera items) - 22.8 x 28.5 cm

PHOTOGRAPHS
10 Photographic prints including a carte-de-visite of Lord Alfred Tennyson photographed by Elliott & Fry, London; views of San Francisco, California ca. 1880s; and photographic print collage postcards depicting prominent people and landmarks.

ALBUM
'The Universal Card and Scrap Album', containing 13 fixed and loose photographic prints, a dinner invitation, 3 watercolours, cards, two wax seals, a newspaper clipping, dried botanical specimens, an embroidered ribbon, Cunard Line list of passengers, Isabella Murray's Central Pacific Railroad Company train ticket from Chicago to New York, handwritten R.M.S. Australia Grand Concert programme, other ephemera and pencil drawings. Photographs include portraits of the Honolulu royal family, views of Honolulu, portraits of attendees at a fancy dress ball held aboard The Australia, Thursday 2 August 1883. Handwritten poem titled 'Goodbye', 5 August 1883.

EPHEMERA
Including: Ismay, Imrie & Co., White Star Line Ship Regulations and map of R.M.S. "Germanic" Atlantic sailing routes; and two train timetables with route maps: Chicago and NorthWestern Railway, comprising 5 Trunk Lines to and from the West and NorthWest, printed by Rand. McNally & Co., Chicago, June 1884; and Chicago Rock Island and Pacific R.W.: The great connecting link between the Pacific and Atlantic, printed by Cameron, Amberg & Co., Chicago, June 1884

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