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Miss Edith Hill photographic portraits, [ca. 1894-1930]
Miss Edith Hill photographic portraits, [ca. 1894-1930]
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Full title
Date
[ca. 1894-1930]
Call Numbers
PXA 992
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
4 photographs
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
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Scope and Contents
Contents
1. [Full length portrait of Edith Hill as a young girl, ca. 1875-1890] / Platinotype by J. Hubert Newman, 314 George Street, Sydney. (14 x 10 cm., on mount 19.2 x 15.1 cm.) (call no. PXA 992/1).
2. [Group portrait including Edith Hill as a young woman, approximately 1894-1895]
Standing (left) Dorothy Wentworth, standing (right) unidentifi...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Miss Edith Hill photographic portraits, [ca. 1894-1930]
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
PXA 992/1 dated by the date of operation of the photographic studio of John Hubert Newman at 314 George Street, Sydney.
Reference: The mechanical eye in Australia / Alan Davies & Peter Stanbury. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985
Digital order no:Album ID : 823874
Description source
Call No. PXA 992/2: Mrs Rouse (as noted on item in pencil) was amended to Nina Rouse (1875-1968, later Terry), following advice from a curator at Museums of History NSW. Dorothy Wentworth (1873-1956, granddaughter of William Charles Wentworth) at left is also the cousin to Edith Hill at right. Dorothy's mother and Edith's father were siblings).
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by Miss E. Hill, 1953
Transferred from P1/H, April 2003
Administrative / Biographical history
Miss Edith Alice Rebecca Hill (1875-1952), daughter of wool broker and pastoralist William Charles Hill (1838-1919) and Alice Rebecca Smith (daughter of Captain Charles Smith). Granddaughter of Henrietta (nee Cox) and pastoralist and politician, Richard Hill (1810-1895).
References:
Biographical register of the New South Wales Parlia...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 992
Record Identifier
nmQdkPBn
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Reference code
423800
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