Louisa Jessie Duprez wedding photograph of unidentified male and female

P1/2380

fonds

probably 1900s

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9669491

1 photographic print - silver gelatin - 14 x 9 cm (postcard format)

Louisa Jessie Duprez (1876-1935) was the daughter of Adolphe Prosper Duprez and Louisa nee Offord, who settled at Bowral, New South Wales to set up Bowral Bakery, 1868. Duprez was President of the Bowral Methodist Junior Christian Endeavour Society and Secretary of various local associations including, Bowral's Annual Industrial Exhibition and Summer Fair, British and Foreign Bible Society, tennis clubs and others.

She took photographs for various events including, wedding of Selina James, August 1906; Bowral YWCA Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 1909; 20th anniversary of Bowral YWCA, Woollahra Congregational Church Jubilee, 1909, and others. Duprez left Bowral following the death of her mother in 1915 and moved to Northbridge, Sydney, New South Wales.

Reference:
Library correspondence files
The Sydney Morning Herald. NSW: 1935, 9 November. "Family Notices". Accessed 21 December 2022. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17227861

Photographic postcard of female in wedding gown and veil holding a bouquet of flowers and male dressed in clergy attire, posing in a garden.

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

Title devised by cataloguer

Light corner bend and bruising

Printed on verso: "Miss Duprez. Photo, Bowral"

Duprez was an active photographer between 1906-1910