Check family photographs [album], 1891-1910
Check family photographs [album], 1891-1910
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1891-1910
Call Numbers
PXE 1016
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 album (102 photographs) - album measures 28 x 39 cm. but pages are removed & stored separately - albumen
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
BOX 1
Original album cover & spine with one unidentified family portrait affixed to inside cover
BOX 2
ALBUM PAGES:
1. Female portraits, some with dogs
2. Cape Byron Lighthouse, 1907
3. Female portraits & dray signed "Joseph Check Photographer
4. Family portraits including Joseph Check at upper right [individual portrait]...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Check family photographs [album], 1891-1910
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
Signature / Inscriptions
"Photos pasted in to your own book free of charge" -- p.19
"A beautiful present of 100 photos 10 + 12 inches for 25/- mounted in your own book free of charge" -- p.39
"Orders received by numbers / 50, 10 + 12 inch photos only 67/6 if necessary mounted in your own book free of charge" -- p. 56
Attributions / Conjectures
Though including family portraits, the inscriptions in some margins about pricing suggest the album was also used as a portfolio of Check's work for clients
Date note
Dated in album margins or on photoprints
Conservation note
Leaves removed from album which is in poor repair but original album kept for future restoration
Description source
Titled in album margins or on photoprints
Contextual Information
Source
Presented February 2009
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXE 1016
Record Identifier
Yj7dWL39
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yj7dWL39
Other Identifiers
Reference code
872474
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