Blue Friars Club, Sydney, photographs, ca. 1930s-1960s
Blue Friars Club, Sydney, photographs, ca. 1930s-1960s
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Call Numbers
PXE 1487
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Reference Code
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
38 photographs - 26 x 31 cm or smaller - col. and b&w
6 sheets of textual material
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Arrangement
Second sequence of photographs is not arranged in numerical order due to housing requirements.
Access and use
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Copyright restrictions may apply
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Material is arranged in two sequences, numbered 1-39 and 276-310.
1 'Some notes on The Blue Friars, August 1974' [typescript]
2 'Mr Buring, Mrs. Albert, 1939'
3a-b, 4a-b, 5a-d [Unidentified photographs at club function]
6-7 'The Blue Friars' [typescript]
8a-b, 9a-b [Unidentified photographs at club function]
Alternative Titles
Full title
Blue Friars Club, Sydney, photographs, ca. 1930s-1960s
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.5852 as part of the eRecords Project 2012-13
Signature / Inscriptions
Each photograph is numbered on verso. Many also note the people featured in the photograph, the date and the photographer's name.
Attributions / Conjectures
Photographs taken by Sam Hood, The "Herald" Women's Thursday Section, Consolidated Press, Gervaise Purcell. Some are unattributed.
Date note
No Date
Contextual Information
Source
Presented to the Library between 1978 and 1985.
Pic.Acc.5852
Administrative / Biographical history
The Blue Friars club was a group of leading professional and business men in Sydney who formed themselves into a novel organisation with the object of finding the richest and best Australian wines.
They called themselves "The Blue Friars" after an ancient order of monks founded in the 13th century, among whose activities was the distilling o...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXE 1487
Record Identifier
9yM68MD9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9yM68MD9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
910019
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