Photograph albums including views of Flat 2, Floor 10, The Astor, Macquarie Street, Sydney, ca. 1938...
Photograph albums including views of Flat 2, Floor 10, The Astor, Macquarie Street, Sydney, ca. 1938, and photographs of Vera James, Frederick C. James and George H. Anderson, ca. 1920-1940
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1920-1940
Call Numbers
PXA 1474
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
3 albums (330 photographic prints) - gelatin silver
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
Collection comprises three photograph albums.
FILE 01
Our home No. 2 Floor 10 The Astor, Macquarie Street, Sydney, [ca. 1938] [photograph album]
FILE 02
Souvenir Album 1933. A Century of Progress Chicago.
Album containing 177 photographs of an overseas trip by Frederick James and George Anderson to Fiji, Samoa, Hawaii, Mexico...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Photograph albums including views of Flat 2, Floor 10, The Astor, Macquarie Street, Sydney, ca. 1938, and photographs of Vera James, Frederick C. James and George H. Anderson, ca. 1920-1940
Notes
Date note
Dated by Curator of Photographs, Mitchell Library, May 2012.
Earliest date for Item 03 from presence of HMS Renown in Sydney Harbour in June 1920.
Conservation note
Item 03 has loose pages and photographs.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Australian Book Auctions, Armadale, Victoria, 7 May 2012, Lot 116.
Administrative / Biographical history
Vera James (1892-1980), a New Zealand born actress, came to Australia in 1919 as a stage actress and was later recruited by Franklyn Barrett for two films, 'A Girl of the Bush' and 'Know Thy Child' (1921). She then went to Hollywood and won a leading role in a B-western 'McGuire of the Mounted' (1923), but her major role in 'Bavu' (1923) was remov...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 1474
Record Identifier
nmQdGzBn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nmQdGzBn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
976739
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