Series 5: John Vicars & Co. photographs

PXA 7512

series

Probably 1850s-2000s

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9669334

383 photographic prints (2 boxes) - gelatin silver, albumen - 35 x 27 cm or smaller

This series include professional and personal photographs of the Vicars family and John Vicars & Co. manufacturing buildings, staff and executives.

BOX 1
Vicars family photographs including John Vicars Senior (1820-1894), his wife Annie Moore, and children Mary, John, William and Sarah Jane, portrait photographs of Robert Vicars, Sir John Vicars (1857-1936), William Vicars, John Maxwel Vicars (1904-1969), John Vicars (1937-) and a group photograph at Petersham Town Hall, ca. 1850s-2000s

Photographs of Thomas Barker and Barker’s Mill; aerial photographs of Vicars Woollen Mill; mill house, 34 Victoria Road Marrickville; Duke of York (later King George VI) visit to mill, 1927; canteen and female locker room at John Vicars & Co.; photographs of processes including scouring, combing, weaving, spinning etc; machinery, equipment, plant etc; business meetings and other corporate photographs; employee cricket photographs, ca. 1920s-1960s

Photographs by Bob March Photographers, Mal Vaughan Photography, Milton Kent, Sydney County Council, CSIRO Radio Physics Division Photo Lab of corporate gatherings and operations.

Photographs of machinery and timekeeper by Kerry & Co., Sydney.; W. G. Davies & Co. Photographers and E.B. Studios, ca. 1870s- ca. 1950s

BOX 2
Exhibitions and events, includes Sydney International Exhibition, 1879; Royal Easter Show, various dates; Wollongong Show, April 1946; Powerhouse Museum, 1988; Wool Expo, 1980s

Australian Wool Bureau series, 81 photographs, incomplete series, stamped on verso: “An Australian Wool Bureau photograph, negative no:… For publication no fee payable”, ca. 1950-1960s

Fletcher Jones and Staff Pty Ltd, Anthony Hordern and Sons Ltd, John Vicars & Co. advertisements for wool products, ca. 1950s-1980s

Copyright restrictions may apply:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Some photographs include photography studio stamps on verso

Dates sourced from handwritten inscriptions on verso of photographs