Box 05 and Box 06X: Fry family papers of Dorothy Fry, 1898 - 1953

MLMSS 1159 ADD-ON 2076/Box 5
MLMSS 1159 ADD-ON 2076/Box 6X

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1898 - 1953

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1 box and 1 outsize box of textual material

Dorothy Fry was born in Sydney in 1891 the first child of Arthur and Carrie Fry. She studied art (ca.1910-1912) and worked for a time as a commercial artist drawing newspaper advertisements, and cartoons and illustrations for The Bulletin, The Sydney Mail and Lone Hand. After further study she started to work as a typist/stenographer; in 1919 she took up a position in Batavia [Jakarta, Indonesia] in the office of a British firm. After returning to Australia in 1923, she worked for various organisations in the private and public sectors before retiring in 1953. Dorothy Fry died in Sydney in 1965.

BOX 5
1898 - 1948; Letters received : correspondents include, her grandfather William McManamey (1899-1904); Arthur Fry (1900-1925); Alan and Dene Fry (1915-1916); Hazel Watson, nee Fry (1937); Carrie Fry (1938); Rollo Fry (1942-1944); Flossie Hill [mother of Robert Hill, one of the members of Rollo Fry's aircrew who were all killed when their plane was shot down over Holland] (1944-1946); Reg Fry (1944-1948).

1902 - 1953; Miscellaneous papers, including : references (1915-1953); passport (1919); list of positions held and duties performed (1926-1948); 'The Australian Girl in Java' newspaper article published in two parts, September 1921; notes and newscuttings re her brother Rollo Fry.

1937, undated; Printed material containing illustrations by Dorothy Fry : 'Reading Primer : parts 1 & 2', NSW Dept of Education, 1937; 'Sulks Grizzlegrumps' / by Aldea Wane, Sydney : Printed by W.C.Penfold & Co., undated.

BOX 6X
ca.1910 - ca.1922; 'Dorothy's Art Work and Printed Specimens', being :sketches (pencil, pen & ink, watercolour) mainly of people; commercial illustrations (pen & ink, watercolour, printed) including newspaper advertisements, magazine covers and illustrations, cartoons, postcards.