Series 04: Margaret Barr sketches, sketchbooks, plans and photographs, 1918-1970s
Series 04: Margaret Barr sketches, sketchbooks, plans and photographs, 1918-1970s
About this item
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Date
1918-1970s
Call Numbers
PXD 1289
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Physical Description
Contents
2 architectural drawings - 34 x 56 cm.
101 drawings - 53 x 75 cm. or smaller (sketches); 30 x 24 cm. (sketchbook); 21 x 17 cm. (botany book) - sketches using pencil, pen, watercolour, ink wash or a combination, some with fabric samples attached, also includes collages. Includes a sketchbook and a botany book
5 ephemera items (handbills) - 25.5 x 22 cm. - mounted on card
12 photographic prints - 50 x 61 cm. or smaller - gelatin silver, some mounted on card
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Series
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Copyright status : In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years (applies to artistic works where creator died after 1955)
Copyright restrictions may apply : Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright for the life of creator plus 70 years.
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Chiefly sketches of costumes for dance productions but also 2 architectural plans for Barr's French's Forest weatherboard cottage, dated 1957. Includes Barr's 1918 school botany book.
Includes 5 placards advertising performance of "The Breaking of the Drought", Sydney Dance-Drama Group Benefit for Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship, Thursday 4...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Series 04: Margaret Barr sketches, sketchbooks, plans and photographs, 1918-1970s
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
Individual sketches and plans are unnumbered.
Placards advertising "The Breaking of the Drought" are outsize material originally accompanying other photographs of this work at PXE 1446/Box 1.
Signature / Inscriptions
Some of the sketches titled and inscribed
Sketchbook has inscription from Fred Manner to Barr, dated Christmas 1939
Contextual Information
Source
Presented July 1991
Pic.Acc.7195/Box 5
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXD 1289
Record Identifier
nQR25XV1
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nQR25XV1
Other Identifiers
Reference code
421255
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