Mina Wylie, her family, swimming colleagues and friends - travelling, holidays and swimming competit...
Mina Wylie, her family, swimming colleagues and friends - travelling, holidays and swimming competit...
Mina Wylie, her family, swimming colleagues and friends - travelling, holidays and swimming competitions, photographed from ca.1883-1930s
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Date
ca. 1883-1930s
Call Numbers
PXE 1028
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225 items, predominantly silver gelatin and albumen photoprints (many of which are mounted) but also including printed postcards, newscuttings, cabinet photographs, Parisian panels, cartes-de-visite, printed envelopes and a letter card - Most of the mounts are damaged and brittle - 35 x 36 cm. or s...
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Issue Copy
Partly Digitised : Box 1
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Scope and Contents
Contents
BOX 1
1. Mina Wylie, Coogee, 1913
2. Mina Wylie, Hamburg, 1910
3-5. [Portraits of Mina Wylie]
6. Mina Wylie, 1910
7. Mina Wylie [L], Fanny Durack [C], Vera Thulin [L] [Swedish swimmer]
8. [Swedish diver Willy Thulin, right, with an unidentified female competitor]
9. Fanny Durack, Mina Wylie, Jenny Louise Fletcher (from Leiceste...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Mina Wylie, her family, swimming colleagues and friends - travelling, holidays and swimming competitions, photographed from ca.1883-1930s
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 823832...
Signature / Inscriptions
Some photos identified, signed or otherwise inscribed on reverse
Many of the studio photos are embossed or printed with the studio/photographer's name and address. Studios represented are from Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Belfast, London and Stockholm
"Geo Hendry, Parisian Studio, Brisbane" -- stamped on reverse of some images
Attributions / Conjectures
No.39 idenitified from a photograph belonging to the National Library of Australia (nla.pic-an21171586)
Description source
Following reader feedback the title of image 56. has been changed from 56. Coogee Beach and Wylie's Baths to 56. Bronte Baths.
AD 26/11/2020
Contextual Information
Source
Presented July 1986
Pic.Acc.6703
Exhibited in
- Indecent exposure: Annette Kellerman
National Portrait Gallery (Australia) (21 January - 25 April, 2011). Applies to: nos. 46-52
Administrative / Biographical history
Wilhelmina (Mina) Wylie, (1891-1984), and Fanny Durack were Australia's first two female Olympic swimming representatives. They competed in the Stockholm Olympics in 1912, where Durack won a gold medal and Wylie a silver. In 1911, 1922 and 1924 Wylie won every Australian and NSW swimming championship - freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke. Wylie...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXE 1028
Record Identifier
n7oVZMbn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n7oVZMbn
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Reference code
414108
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