Item 03: Photographic albums of Sydney and the surrounding areas, cigarette cards of politicians and a postcard, ca 1880-ca 1910

PXE 1720

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ca 1880-ca 1910

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera

9608815

2 albums (84 photographs) and ephemera - gelatin silver; colour; printed

Album 1
Black leather bound photographic album including 44 images of the Hawkesbury River, Brooklyn, Georges River, Parramatta River, Nepean River, Sydney buildings, Blue Mountains and the Royal National Park, ca 1880s. Photographs are probably by the Government Printing Office and have printed titles in lower left or right hand corner.

Album 2
Album containing cigarette cards, some colour, depicting New South Wales politicians and 40 photographs of Sydney and its surrounds, and soldiers, possibly the New South Wales Sudan contingent. The album is inscribed with two names – F.W. Sharkey and Betty R. Burge. Images are titled in pencil below the photograph. Photographs have been pasted into the album and cover is embossed with an image of deer. Also includes a colour postcard with inscription to Dearest Rose ... your loving cousin Merle. Dated 1910.

Access via appointment - Album is very fragile.

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Page 1: F.W. Sharkey, Glenmore Road (Paddington). B.R. Burge, 16 Dutruc Street, (Randwick). This book belongs to Betty R. Burge, 16 Mascotte, Dutruc St Randwick.

There are also several indecipherable pencil inscriptions.

Album is very fragile.