Wyndham family photographs

PXA 7288

fonds

approximately 1870s-1920s

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records

9621332

10 albums (694 photographic prints) and 21 photographic prints (4 boxes)

George Wyndham (1801-1870), winegrower and pastoralist, was born at Dinton, Wiltshire, England. He married Margaret Jay in 1827, and emigrated to Australia in the same year, where he established the properties Dalwood, on the Hunter River, and Keelgyrah and Bukkulla, in the New England District, New South Wales.

George and Margaret had eleven sons and two daughters. George died in Sydney on 24 December 1870, three months after the death of Margaret. The properties passed out of Wyndham hands, except for Bukkulla which was later reacquired. The Dalwood vineyard was bought by Penfolds Wines Ltd.

Reference:
McKinney, Judith Wright. 'Wyndham, George (1801–1870)', Australian Dictionary of Biography. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wyndham-george-2824/text4049. Published first in hardcopy 1967, accessed online 27 January 2021.

By descent from Arthur Wyndham to Donald Seton Wilkinson

715 photographic prints comprising 10 photograph albums (694 photographic prints) and 21 loose photographs documenting three generations of the Wyndham family. The photographs mainly comprise formal portrait studio studies. Also included are photographs of landscapes; Wyndham homesteads such as Roseangle, Bukkulla, and Dalwood estates; Burwood and Albury Parish Church; and Dinton estate, Wiltshire, where George Wyndham was born. The photographs are chiefly albumen prints, some hand coloured, as well as carte de visites, cabinet cards and tintypes. Accompanying material includes a printed family tree, and notes identifying subjects depicted in the photograph albums, linked by reference number.

BOX 1
1. Album (117 photographic prints), (52pp 27.5 x 21 cm), brown tooled leather binding; inscribed 'Arthur Wyndham Mudgee' (cit. no. A0089.3)
2. Album (72 photographic prints), (52pp 27.5 x 21.5 cm), red leather binding; inscribed 'Arthur Wyndham Mudgee' (cit. no. A0089.11)

BOX 2
3. Album (33 photographic prints), (58pp, 15.5 x 12.5 cm), black tooled leather binding (cit. no. A0089.1)
4. Album (33 photographic prints), (56pp, 15 x 11.5 cm), black tooled leather binding; inscribed ' Arthur Wyndham (cit. no. A0089.6)
5. Album (118 photographic prints), (24pp 17.5 x 22 cm), red cloth bound, with a handwritten note: 'donated by descendant of Gwenda Webb (nee Wyndham) desc. Reginald' (cit. no. A0089.5)
6. Album (42 photographic prints), (24pp 15 x 20 cm), soft bound cardboard, titled 'Our caravan trip to Mt. Kosciusko', inscribed in front cover, '24th April 1923' (cit. no. A0089.4)
7. Handwritten lists and printed family tree, some historical notes, identifying subjects depicted in various photograph albums, linked by reference number.
8. 21 photographic prints in folder titled 'Wyndham photographs'; most annotated on verso, includes some news clippings (cit. no. A0089.12 to 32)

BOX 3
9. Album (88 photographic prints), (50pp 30 x 24.5 cm), brown tooled leather binding; inscribed 'Arthur Wyndham Mudgee' (cit. no. A0089.8)
10. Album (77 photographic prints) (54pp 30 x 24.5 cm, brown tooled leather binding (cit. no. A0089.7)

BOX 4
11. Album (63 photographic prints), (52pp, 24 x 19.5 cm), brown tooled leather binding; inscribed 'Arthur Wyndham Mudgee' (cit. no. A0089.10)
12. Album (51 photographic prints), (56pp, 15 x 11.5 cm), black tooled leather binding; inscribed 'Arthur Wyndham Mudgee'. (cit. no. A0089.2)

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