David Scott Mitchell papers - collection of photographs, including Mitchell, Merewether and Busby fa...
David Scott Mitchell papers - collection of photographs, including Mitchell, Merewether and Busby fa...
David Scott Mitchell papers - collection of photographs, including Mitchell, Merewether and Busby family members, ca. 1860-1905
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1860's, 1890's, 1905
Call Numbers
PXA 1037
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
Photographs - 21.2 x 15 cm (image) ; 20.8 x 25.4 cm (mount) or smaller - 8 photoprints (including 1 albumen - 1 sepia toned silver gelatin print, 1 carbon, 1 platinum, 1 paris panel)
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
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Scope and Contents
Contents
1. Augusta (Gussie) and Rose Scott [seated], 1864 / [photograph attributed to Ernest Docker]
2. [Augusta Maria Mitchell? in front of dovecot, ca. 1860s]
3. Eric W, A. Dora, Ella C., Merewether Busby, 1898 [group portrait, platinotype] / Freeman & Co., Ltd., 318 George Street, Sydney
4. [Girl and woman seated in garden beside table with ca...
Alternative Titles
Full title
David Scott Mitchell papers - collection of photographs, including Mitchell, Merewether and Busby family members, ca. 1860-1905
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 1045238...
Signature / Inscriptions
Photographer's name and address is printed below image of No.1. Also titled and dated in ink below photograph.
On reverse of No.3, handwritten in ink, "D.S.M. / with love for Xtmas 1899 / from M, & M S S, "the Tike", "Orient", & "Roderick [?]"
In pencil on reverse of No.4, "May Lingen - 1st wife of W.H.D. Merewether"
Photographer's stamp a...
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by D.S. Mitchell, 1907
Pic.Acc.3610, from David Scott Mitchell papers at MLMSS 379
Transfer, Sept. 2004, from:
P1/Scott, Rose and Gussie, 1864 (BM)
P1/Scott, Augusta Maria ?, ca. 1860s (BM)
P1/Merewether , 1898 (BM)
P1/Merewether, Mrs William, 1899 (BM)
P1/Merewether ?, ca. 1890s (BM)
SPF/Sydney - Residences - Cu...
Administrative / Biographical history
Francis Greenway designed Cumberland Place in 1825 for Robert Campbell. Campbell never lived in the house, it was occupied by the Bishop of Sydney (Bishop Broughton) in the 1830s and later acquired from Campbell by Mrs Augusta Maria Scott. Mrs Scott's daughter, Miss Augusta Maria Scott married Dr. James Mitchell in 1833. After the death of Mrs Scot...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 1037
Record Identifier
Y0KDoZN1
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Y0KDoZN1
Other Identifiers
Reference code
441579
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