• Title
  Charles Lawrence - photographs and realia, ca. 1864-1898
• Call number
  PXA 956
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  ca. 1864-1898
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs, Objects
• Reference code
  421134
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 16.5 x 13.7 cm. or smaller - 9 photoprints (including 2 cabinet photographs, 4 carte de visite) - 1 postcard
  Objects - 5.5 (height) x 2 cm. (diam.) - 1 metal watch fob that emulates a cricket ball with hinged lid. Mounted on lid in a tripod formation are 3 cylindrical stumps, a cricket bat, and single stump. Ring and loop at top of ball to attach to fob chain.
  
• Scope and Content
  Lawrence family portraits (PXA 956/1-5)
  1. Mr Lawrence, Northcote, Melbourne [studio portrait]. This is a brother, cousin or uncle of Charles Lawrence who lived in Northcote.
  2. Mille Lawrence [studio portrait as a girl]
  3. Mille Leech nee Lawrence, Melb.
  4. Leech family, Brighton [postcard of parents and 4 children]
  5. Charles Lawerence, Brighton, Vic.
  Cricket portraits (PXA 956/6-10)
  6. [Probably the All-Ireland United cricket team at Phoenix Park, Dublin, ca. 1858]. Lawrence is probably standing at 2nd left back row.
  7. [Studio portrait believed to be Johnny Mullagh, 1867] / Chandler & Lomer, 419 George Street, Sydney (refer to the notes about this portrait below)
  8. Lawrence, Captain [in bowling stance] / P. Dawson, Hamilton & Warrnambool, Vic. [1866-1868]
  9. [Group portrait of Aboriginal cricketers with Lawrence and William Shepherd, on tour, Swansea, 1868]
  10. Charles Lawrence [with cricket bat]
  Realia (R 925)
  Watch fob belonging to Charles Lawrence
• System of arrangement
  Chronologically where date is known
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Nos. 6-7, 9 titled from : Christie's auction catalogue, 26 March 2002
  Re photograph no. 6. The venue may be the Vice Regal Cricket Ground at Dublin established by Charles Lawrence for the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The match could be The Gentlemen of Dublin v The Players of Dublin, 28 June 1855 - information supplied by Rex Harcourt, see ML 1063/74
  No.7 [Studio portrait believed to be Johnny Mullagh, 1867]. Note the subject in this image does not resemble other portraits of Johnny Mullagh held in the Mitchell Library. See: Aboriginal cricketers alongside the Melbourne Cricket Ground Pavilion, c.1867 (MPG/113); Australian aboriginal cricketers (DL Pf 140).
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823857
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Peter. C. Curtis to Charles Lawrence Sydney NSW 1868 handwritten in ink on paper inside fob.
  Some photographs are titled on the back
• Name
  Lawrence, Charles, 1828-1917
  Lawrence family
  Shepherd, William
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  cricket teams
  cricketers
  families
  personal effects
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1079477

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