Photograph album of the employees and inhabitants of the Coolangatta Estate, Shoalhaven River, N.S.W...
Photograph album of the employees and inhabitants of the Coolangatta Estate, Shoalhaven River, N.S.W...
Photograph album of the employees and inhabitants of the Coolangatta Estate, Shoalhaven River, N.S.W. / presented to John Hay, Esq., by his employees, November 1891
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1891
Call Numbers
PXA 1252
Record Identifier
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Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 album (55 photographs) - 23.7 x 32.3 cm - albumen
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
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Digitised
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Scope and Contents
Contents
A presentation album (36 pages) of brown leather stamped on edges and spine with gold leaf decoration containing 55 photographs of the inhabitants of the Coolangatta Estate. Images include group portraits of male workers, families, children, women, women and children, and household staff. One group portrait, possibly of members of the Hay family,...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Photograph album of the employees and inhabitants of the Coolangatta Estate, Shoalhaven River, N.S.W. / presented to John Hay, Esq., by his employees, November 1891
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 932714...
Signature / Inscriptions
Front cover of album stamped in gold leaf 'Presented to John Hay, Esq. by his employes [ie. employees] Nov. 1891'.
First page of album inscribed with the letters 'JH'[?] in gold and ink
Object History
An Album of Employees "Coolangatta" is listed amongst the Books in Library in Inventory and Valuation of the Household Furniture, Appointments and Effects contained in the Residence "Coolangatta House", Coolangatta via Berry, South Coast, In the Estate of the late Jessie Sinclair Hay. Lyster Ormsby & Co., Valuers, Fine Art, Furniture & General Auc...
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Shapiro Auctioneers, March 2010
Administrative / Biographical history
Sir John Hay (1840-1909), the son of David Hay, was born at Coolangatta on the Shoalhaven River, N.S.W. in 1840. He was a member of the council of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales and was knighted in 1908. He inherited the Coolangatta estate after his cousin David Berry died in 1889. He encouraged land settlement especially arou...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 1252
Record Identifier
9PQ8KBNn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9PQ8KBNn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
897979
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