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Print
9675713
  • Title
    Series 7: Allen family cartes de visite, postcards and commercial photographs
  • Call number
    PXA 7672/Boxes 17-18
  • Level of description
    series
  • Date

    1870s-1910s
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    9675713
  • Physical Description
    1 album (66 photographic prints)
    48 photographic prints
    10 postcards
  • Scope and Content
    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.
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright:
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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