Robert Danvers Power - glass negatives, ca. 1910-1930
Robert Danvers Power - glass negatives, ca. 1910-1930
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1910-1930
Call Numbers
ON 280
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
Photographs - 8.5 x 10.5 cm. - 416 glass photonegatives
Photographs - 8.2 x 13.8 cm. - nos 71-75 - 5 glass photonegatives
Photographs - 8.5 x 10.5 cm. - 4 glass transparencies
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Arrangement
Filed in photographer's original box order
Access and use
Physical Access Conditions
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Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
1-69. Family
70-81. Special - Mum
82-130. Relations
131-271. Strangers
272-360. Views
361-384. La Perouse
385-409. Box labelled Alfred [unreadable] 432 Illawarra Rd Marrickville Sydney N.S.W.
410-425. [1 untitled box]
There are images of White City fairgrounds (nos 244,320), St Peters Municipal Council hall (?) set out for a...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Robert Danvers Power - glass negatives, ca. 1910-1930
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
Although Robert Danvers Power had a camera from a young age, these photographs are more likely to be by his father, Frederick Danvers Power -- A.Davies, Curator of Photographs (Sept 2007)
Although the photographer's boxes were labelled Family, Relations, Strangers, La Perouse and Views, the negatives appear to be random in each box
There may...
Contextual Information
Source
Presented Aug 1999
Administrative / Biographical history
Robert ('Bob') Danvers Power was born 24 April 1907 in Drummoyne, NSW. His parents were Frederick D. Power and Muriel F. nee Blain. He was educated at Hawkesbury Agricultural College in the early 1920s and purchased land (30 acres) at North Richmond on the banks of the Hawkesbury River, called 'Waterford', later used in commercial and television sh...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
ON 280
Record Identifier
YK5Q2gxn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YK5Q2gxn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
447676
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