• Title
  File 01: Cahill's restaurant staff and buildings, ca. 1927-1937
• Call number
  PXA 7233/Box 1
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  ca. 1927-1937
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  9640723
• Physical Description
  11 photographic prints - black & white - 8 x 13 cm
  3 photographic postcards - black & white - 9 x 14 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Teresa Gertrude Cahill (1896-1979) and her brother Reg opened a small sundae and confectionery shop in Pitt Street, Sydney, in 1922. By 1927, they had formed a company, Cahills Holdings, controlling a factory at Alexandria and five shops in the city to retail their products. Ray Page worked as an accountant for Cahill’s Restaurant when she moved to Sydney in 1927.
  
  Reference
  Australian Dictionary of Biography, http://adb.anu.edu.au, (accessed 26 July 2019)
• Scope and Content
  Comprises loose photographs from an album compiled by Ray Page:
  1. [Portrait of] Miss Laith & Miss Whitnal?, Cahills Ltd [with Cahill's truck in background]
  2. [Group portrait] taken at Graves Road...? on the way to Windsor, Mrs ?????, cashier, Miss Heggins????
  3. [Portrait of] Miss Smith, Secretary, Cahills Ltd
  4. Cahill's Ltd opening of new wing of chocolate factory
  5-7. [Portraits of] Miss Osborne with car, Cahills Ltd
  8. Banquet Cahill's Lts chocolatiers
  9. On the way to Katoomba Mrs
  10. [Group portrait] of Cahill's Ltd staff
  11. [Unidentified portrait of adult female in garden]
  12-14. [Postcards from Miss Birt addressed to Cahills Ltd, 51 Castlereagh Street Sydney, 1936-1937, with views of Merriwa, Scenic Railway Katoomba and Katoomba Falls]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Ben Ricketts Environmental Preserve
• Description source
  
  Descriptions derived from captions and listing compiled by donor.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Most photographs contain handwritten captions and stamped 'Harringtons' on verso.
• Subject
  Cahill's Restaurants (Sydney, N.S.W.)--Photographs.
  Sydney (N.S.W.)--Social life and customs--1922-1929
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE16321475

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