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9583854
  • Title
    Photograph album of the family of A.B. Paterson, [1860s-1880s]
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXE 1709
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    [1860s-1880s]
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    9583854
  • Physical Description
    46 photographic prints (1 album)
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Andrew Barton “Banjo” Paterson was the son of Andrew Bogle Paterson and Rose Isabella Barton. Arthur S. Barton, identified in the album, was Rose Isabella’s brother. Ursula, Mary and Edith Barton, also identified in the album, were the children of another of Rose Isabella’s brothers, Charles Hampton Barton.
  • Collection history
    Acquired by the vendor from a family member
  • Scope and Content
    Personal photograph album of the family of A. B. “Banjo” Paterson. The album has a leather cover stamped with the initials “R.J.P.” and title page inscribed "Flower & Feather, an album embellished with Plumage & Foliage from many lands, Marcus Ward & Co." The pages are decorated with chromolithographs of birds and plants.

    The album contains 46 studio portraits, chiefly in carte de visite format, of various members of the Paterson/Barton family, although only four are identified: Arthur S. Barton, Mary Lorna Barton, Ursula Sterling Barton and Edith Marjorie Barton. Photographers include William Freeman, John Botterill, Hubert Newman and Edwin Dalton. Interleaved between the 16th and 17th photographs in the album is a long lock of hair, tied with a ribbon.
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Created before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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