Houghton family photographs relating to Thomas John Houghton including a portrait, group portrait of...
Houghton family photographs relating to Thomas John Houghton including a portrait, group portrait of a New South Wales politicians' garden party and a portrait of Albert Friedenthal presented by the pianist, ca. 1890-1910
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1890-1910
Call Numbers
PXA 1550
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
3 photographic prints - 26 x 33 cm or smaller - cabinet, panel
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
1. Thomas John Houghton / Harcourt-McGuffie & Co., Murray St., Hobart
2. [Women and men at a garden party possibly associated with the first Labour government in New South Wales, including Mrs Houghton, Government House, Sydney] / Paris panel photograph, 808 George St. [photographer's stamp missing]
3. Albert Friedenthal, pianist, ca. 1899 /...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Houghton family photographs relating to Thomas John Houghton including a portrait, group portrait of a New South Wales politicians' garden party and a portrait of Albert Friedenthal presented by the pianist, ca. 1890-1910
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
No. 2 has pieces missing from edges of image and border
No. 3 is in two pieces and appears to be a different image from the same Falk Studios session as in the Gerald Marr Thompson collection of theatre portraits at: P1 / 601
Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.4172 as part of the eRecords Project 2012-13
Signature / Inscriptions
1. "Yours ever, T.J. Houghton" - signature on lower right edge of mount, photographer's stamp on lower edge of mount
2. Inscription identifying members of portrait on reverse, pieces of photographer's stamp missing from border
3."To Miss... Houghton with the compliments of Albert Friedenthal, Hobart, 18/VI/04" signature on lower edge of mount...
Date note
Dated by cataloguer
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Sybil Aitken, February 1978
Pic.Acc.4172
Administrative / Biographical history
Thomas John Houghton (1861-1933), printer and publisher, was the son of George Houghton and Frances Fairclough. He married Catherine Susanna Kitsch in the Church of England, Grafton on 31 December 1884. They had 1 daughter and 2 sons.
Houghton arrived in New South Wales in 1866. He was apprenticed for six years as a printer from age 14 then wor...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 1550
Record Identifier
YRlZjjmn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YRlZjjmn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
909625
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