Series 1: Allen family photograph albums

PXA 7672/Boxes 1-14

series

approximately 1880s-1930

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9675628

14 albums (2808 photographic prints)

BOX 1
Photograph album (41 cabinet cards and cartes de visite), approximately 1880s
Studio portraits, some labelled. Subjects include William Boyce Allen, Dorothy Mitchell, Helen Patricia Boyce Allen.

BOX 2
Photograph album (48 photographs in windows on 12 pages), approximately 1900s
Mainly family scenes and landscapes. No captions.

BOX 3
Photograph album (126 photographs on 36 pages) (remaining pages blank), February 1901-1913
Mainly family scenes. Includes photographs at Jenolan Caves, Bondi Beach, Moombara, Merioola, Elvo.
Includes duplicate photographs from other Allen family albums.

BOX 4
Photograph album (303 photographs on 72 numbered pages), May 1909-1917
Largely consisting of photographs sent home by Denis Allen during his time in England.

BOX 5
Photograph album (211 photographs on 60 pages), July 1911-January 1912
Inscribed 'A. Denis Allen' on first page. Mainly photographs of England. Includes family scenes.

BOX 6
Photograph album (167 photographs on 58 pages), 31st May 1913-31st August 1913
Includes images of Canada, the RMS Niagara, Honolulu, Merioola, polo week, Bilgola, Kosciusko.

BOX 7
Photograph album (239 photographs on 58 pages), 31 August 1913-5 April 1914
Includes family scenes, Merioola, Bilgola, Neotsfield, a procession at Martin Place for the arrival of the Australian Fleet in October 1913, the Australian Fleet in Sydney Harbour, Yaralla, Prospect, Nowra, Elvo, Bong Bong Races, a rail accident at Exeter.

BOX 8
Photograph album (233 photographs on 59 numbered pages, some blank), April 1914-March 1915
Photographs at residences including Elvo, Merioola, Yaralla. Also includes photographs at Randwick, Duntroon, Bilgola, Bong Bong, Medlow Bath.

BOX 9
Photograph album (215 photographs on 60 pages), April 1915-August 1916
Associated with Denis Allen. Includes photos of horses, Neotsfield, Merioola, Havilah, Elvo, Martin Place on Belgian Day in 1915, the RMS Mooltan, England, Scotland, photographs from his time in the Royal Naval Air Service.

BOX 10
Photograph album, (248 photographs on 52 pages), approximately June 1917-July 1919
Mainly photos of England; locations include Ascot and New College. Also includes Argentière. Includes some aerial photography.

BOX 11
Photograph album (277 photographs on 60 numbered pages), May 1919-March 1921
Includes photographs of England. Moombara, Elvo, Foxlow, Dangar Island, Singleton, Merioola, Neotsfield, Randwick. Includes family scenes, horses, horse races. Includes set of photographs taken by Cazneaux.

BOX 12
Photograph album (229 photographs on 60 numbered pages (including 2 loose photographs), November 1920-August 1921
Labelled Volume 9. Associated with Denis Allen.
Mainly trip to India, also horses, Neotsfield, Moombara, Gunnible at Gunnedah, Kosciusko, Tom Ugly's Point, Randwick, Merioola.
Two loose photographs on card at the back of the album signed Bostock of the wedding of Arthur Denis Wigram Allen and Mary Beatrice Dangar.

BOX 13
Photograph album (362 photographs on 100 pages), January 1929-October 1930
Labelled Volume 13. Associated with Denis Allen.
Shows horse races, horses, Nepean Dam, Avon Dam, Rotherwood (a residence in the Southern Highlands), demolition of Wallaroy House, Woollahra, Yaralla, wedding of Marcia Allen to John Bavin, Nowra, Bodalla, Narooma, the Australian Iron and Steel works at Port Kembla, Moombara, Mascot aerodrome, Circular Quay, construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Nielson Park, Gunrock Creek, Bowral, Camden Park, the 1930 Royal Show, the Botanic Garden.
A photograph of George Lambert added to the album to mark his death.

BOX 14
Photograph album (109 photographs, some loose), approximately 1909-1913
Nearly all captioned. Associated with Mary Dangar who later married Denis Allen.
Includes the property Neotsfield (including flood of 1913), The Armidale School (TAS), the Sydney Zoo.

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