[Collectors for the Hospital Saturday Collection, ca. 1906-1912] / H.E. Davis and Lorna
[Collectors for the Hospital Saturday Collection, ca. 1906-1912] / H.E. Davis and Lorna
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1906-1912
Call Numbers
SPG/183
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 photograph - silver gelatin
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Lbrary of New South Wales
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Photograph depicting seven women outside an unidentified building, holding their collection boxes. In the centre is a banner reading "Hospital Saturday Collection". All women are wearing hats and long dresses. Most appear to also be wearing gloves.
Alternative Titles
Full title
[Collectors for the Hospital Saturday Collection, ca. 1906-1912] / H.E. Davis and Lorna
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
Signature / Inscriptions
Bottom-left corner of mount reads "H. E. Davis"
Bottom-right corner of mount reads "Lorna/Studios/71 Glebe Rd Sydney"
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Ancanthe, 30 June 2016
Administrative / Biographical history
The annual Hospital Saturday Fund began in London in 1873, and was shortly followed in Sydney in 1889. Saturday was the elected day as, at the time in England, wages were paid on Saturday. Hospital Saturday Fund came as a response to a growing need for co-ordination of health services, and poor health caused by poverty and lack of nutrition through...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SPG/183
Record Identifier
9qoaDkO1
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9qoaDkO1
Other Identifiers
Reference code
1001351
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