Elizabeth Mary Steer - papers, 1926-1987, concerning Herbert Beecroft, including the correspondence...
Elizabeth Mary Steer - papers, 1926-1987, concerning Herbert Beecroft, including the correspondence of the Reverend Gordon Powell, 1986-1987, together with the papers of Herbert Beecroft, ca. 1881-1950
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ca. 1881-1987
Call Numbers
MLMSS 6373
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3 boxes and 1 outsize item - 1.03 Meters
Textual Records
Textual Records - (typescript)
Clippings
Textual Records - (printed)
Photographs - carte-de-visite, b&w and silver gelatin photoprints, col. photoprints and photonegatives
Drawings - pen & ink, pencil
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I. ELIZABETH MARY STEER
195--1987; Correspondence mainly with the Reverend Gordon Powell and Randwick Historical Society (N.S.W.), including enclosure: Little black fingers by Florence Rutter. London: Ledwith & Banfield, 1951?; together with the correspondence of the Reverend Gordon Powell, 1986-1987 (Call No.: MLMSS 6373/1)
1961-1981...
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Full title
Elizabeth Mary Steer - papers, 1926-1987, concerning Herbert Beecroft, including the correspondence of the Reverend Gordon Powell, 1986-1987, together with the papers of Herbert Beecroft, ca. 1881-1950
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Beecroft, Herbert, 1864-1951
British and Foreign Bible Society
Burns, James, 1865-1948
Cox, Warren E.
Dobson, C. C.
Frost & Reed
Herron, George D. (George Davis), 1862-1925
King, Harriet Eleanor Hamilton
National Christian Education Council (Redhill, Surrey)
Newbery, Arthur
Powell, Gordon, 1911-2005
Randwick Historical Society (N.S.W.)
Ruth, T. E. (Thomas Elias), 1875-1956
Rutter, Florence
Venture Prints
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by the Reverend Gordon Powell in 1995
Administrative / Biographical history
Herbert Beecroft (1864-1951), painter, and his wife Dulcie Julia (1865-1944) came to Australia from England in 1905. They settled in Wollahra, N.S.W., where he became an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Saint Columba. Between 1905 and 1920 he painted portraits of Aborigines at La Perouse, N.S.W.. From 1927 he painted a series of portraits of Jes...
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Call Numbers
MLMSS 6373
Record Identifier
9yMd6KA9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9yMd6KA9
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Reference code
152434
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