Series 7: Allen family cartes de visite, postcards and commercial photographs

PXA 7672/Boxes 17-18

series

1870s-1910s

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera

9675713

1 album (66 photographic prints)
48 photographic prints
10 postcards

Box 17/Folder 1
Cartes de visite (17) and one card without photograph, approximately 1880s. Some annotated on verso.

Box 17/Folder 2
Cartes de visite (29), 1870s-1880s.
Most annotated on verso. Likely connected with the Boyce Allen branch of the family.

Box 17/Folder 3
Cartes de visite (2), approximately 1873, 1874.
Annotated on verso, 'Marian Fletcher, David Milne Smith'.

Box 17/Folder 4
Postcards (10), approximately 1900s-1910s.
Mainly to and from the children of William Boyce Allen and Adelaide Allen, and their grandmother Mrs Hamburger.
Postcards depict scenes including Double Bay, Kiama, Leura, Springwood, The Spit, Queen Victoria Markets, the Lands Office and the Treasury Buildings (Brisbane).

Box 17/Folder 5
Commercial booklets containing reproductions of photographs:
Twelve Photographic Postcards of Durban (in monotone) : Series A.

Two booklets titled 'Paris. Album Artistique' containing reproductions of photographs. One booklets cncludes pencil inscription on front page 'Mrs W.B. Allen, 13 Mansfield St, Glebe Point ... '

Album Artistique; 'Sunny South' Album. Containing 24 views of Hobart and surrounding districts.

Box 18
Commercial album, '23 February 1887', gilt stamp on cover.
Album (66 photographic prints) containing pasted-in commercial photographs of European cities and art.

Out of copyright:
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