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[Photograph album] Presented to Abel Wilkins, Esqr. by the Eight Hour League Wellington, Jany. 1906

[Photograph album] Presented to Abel Wilkins, Esqr. by the Eight Hour League Wellington, Jany. 1906

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nGm4mdyY

[Photograph album] Presented to Abel Wilkins, Esqr. by the Eight Hour League Wellington, Jany. 1906

About this item

Full title

[Photograph album] Presented to Abel Wilkins, Esqr. by the Eight Hour League Wellington, Jany. 1906

Date

1902-1906

Call Numbers

PXA 1877

Record Identifier

nGm4mdyY

Reference Code

1045486
Physical Description

Contents

1 album (48 photographic prints) - photographs 14 x 19.5 cm, album 20.7 x 27.2 cm - gelatin silver, with illuminated address in black ink and watercolour

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

More information

Scope and Contents

Contents

Illuminated address to Abel Wilkins from the Eight Hour Association of Wellington

1. Eight Hour League, Wellington
Front row, left to right: A. Kennard, A. Wilkins (Secretary), Alderman J.F. Walker (President), W.R. Mitchell (Joint Secretary), R. Kiss
Back row: G. McDonald, A. Davidson, George Seymour (Vice President), J. Dick (Vice Pr...

Alternative Titles

Full title

[Photograph album] Presented to Abel Wilkins, Esqr. by the Eight Hour League Wellington, Jany. 1906

Authors, Artists and Contributors

Author / Artists

Contributing Creator

Cover title : gilt on ox blood leather

Notes

General note

Exhibits are horsedrawn floats

Signature / Inscriptions

Contents from captions in red ink

"To Abel Wilkins, Esq., Wellington.

Dear Mr Wilkins, The Eight Hour Association of Wellington, wishing to mark in some slight degree their appreciation of your efforts as Secretary of the Association for years past, think that no better memento can be presented to you, than a series of photographs tak...

Attributions / Conjectures

Photographs by Elite Studio, Wellington
Reference: Float, Eight Hour Procession, Wellington, 1905 / photographer Elite Studio, Wellington (SPG / 37), a copy of which is also on p. 32 of this album

Published information

PXA 1877/no. 9 published in Australian Town and Country Journal, Wednesday 4 November 1903 p.22

Contextual Information

Source

Presented by George Wilkins, February 2013.

Administrative / Biographical history

Reference:
Australian Town and Country Journal, Wednesday 4 November 1903 p.22

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

PXA 1877

Record Identifier

nGm4mdyY

Permalink

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nGm4mdyY

Other Identifiers

Reference code

1045486

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