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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...

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David Scott Mitchell papers - collection of photographs, including Mitchell, Merewether and Busby family members, ca. 1860-1905

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Full title

David Scott Mitchell papers - collection of photographs, including Mitchell, Merewether and Busby family members, ca. 1860-1905

Date

ca. 1860's, 1890's, 1905

Call Numbers

PXA 1037

Record Identifier

Y0KDoZN1

Reference Code

441579
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

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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

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...

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

PXA 1037

Record Identifier

Y0KDoZN1

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Y0KDoZN1

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Reference code

441579

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