Photographs of the Perkins family, Morwenstowe Homestead, Wallaga Lake, New South Wales, ca. 1898-ca...
Photographs of the Perkins family, Morwenstowe Homestead, Wallaga Lake, New South Wales, ca. 1898-ca...
Photographs of the Perkins family, Morwenstowe Homestead, Wallaga Lake, New South Wales, ca. 1898-ca. 1909 / photographed by a member of the Perkins family
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1898-ca. 1909
Call Numbers
PXB 1729
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
13 photographs - 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
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Scope and Contents
Contents
13 albumen silver photographs taken by the Perkins family, in and around the remote Wallaga Lake, Tilba Tilba and Cobargo region of New South Wales, between ca. 1900-ca. 1909. Includes family and group portraits, several views of the family homestead, school groups, farming and land clearing, and various boating activities on the lake, family outin...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Photographs of the Perkins family, Morwenstowe Homestead, Wallaga Lake, New South Wales, ca. 1898-ca. 1909 / photographed by a member of the Perkins family
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
Date note
Photographs are undated. Dates based on family's arrival in Wallaga Lake in 1898 and the wedding of Ivy Perkins in 1909.
Description source
Inscriptions on verso.
Object History
By descent through the Perkins family in the United States until around 2010, when the photographs were sold in a charity auction. Then purchased by the previous owner in New York, 2011.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Douglas Stewart, May 2017
Administrative / Biographical history
The Perkins family settled in the Cobargo district in 1898, at Morwenstowe homestead on Wallaga Lake. In 1898 Mrs Perkins is recorded as a school teacher at public school in Cobargo, where her daughter Ivy Perkins attended school. Ivy Perkins later became a school teacher in Corunna, north of Tilba Tilba. In 1909 she married Ernest Napthali at Morw...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXB 1729
Record Identifier
Yolg67A9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yolg67A9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
1007862
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