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Title
Freeman Studio, Sydney - studio portraits, ca. 1874-1908 [exhibition held at the State Library of N.S.W., August 2003 - May 2004]
Creator
Freeman & Co. Ltd
Call number
ON 6
ON 219
ON 268
Level of description
fonds
Date

ca. 1874-1908
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
430464
Physical Description
Photographs - 16 x 21 cm. and 25 x 30 cm. - 64 glass photonegatives
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

The arrival in Sydney of William Freeman in 1853 and his brother James the following year marked the beginning of Australia's oldest continuously operating photographic studio.
Dates, studio names & addresses:
1854-55. Freeman & Wheeler. 456 George St
1855-60. Freeman Bros. 231 (392) George St
1860-67. Freeman Bros & Victor A Prout. 392 George St
1867-68. Freeman & Prout. 137 (141) Castlereagh St
1868-72. Freeman, late Dalton. 320 George St
1873-79. Freeman, late Oswald Allen. 360 George St
1880-90. Freeman Bros. 346 George St
1890. Freeman Bros. 316 George St
1891-1900. W R George manager. 318 George St
1900-46. Freeman & Co. 318 George St
1947-67. Freeman Studios. 318 George St
1968-71. Freeman Studio. 3 Hunter St
1972-98. Freeman Studios. 300 George St
1998- . Freeman Studio. 193-195 Clarence St
In 1954, Valentine Waller, then owner of Freeman Studios, donated 400 early glass plate negatives and modern prints made from them to the Mitchell Library. This was the start of the Freeman Collection at the State Library of New South Wales. When William Pooley bought the business in 1968, he donated a further 60,000 portrait negatives and the sitters' books, detailing the names of the subjects and the date of each photograph. Further donations and purchases over the years have swelled the number of negatives to well over 100,000.
A microfiche index to names in the Freeman Collection of negatives is held in the Mitchell Library Reading Room at PXA 337. It covers the periods 1875-1919 and 1926-1935.
Scope and Content
Freeman and Co., Sydney, advertisement, 1900. Includes portraits of Lady Mary Lygon (top left); Mrs Dr, Chisholm & daughter (middle left); Captain Phillip Charley (bottom left); Lieutenant Tooth (lowest centre full lenght figure) (Call No.: ON 6/16x21/Freeman)
ABDY, Mrs Mary, 1899. Mrs Abdy also appears in the adverstisement for Freeman and Co., 1900 (Call No.: ON 6/16x21/Abdy)
BAYLY, Mrs, in wedding gown (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 2 )
BEAUCHAMP, William Lygon, 7th, Earl of, 1899. Governor of NSW, full length portrait (Call No.: ON 268/Box 5)
BEAUCHAMP, William Lygon, 7th, Earl of, 1899. Seated portrait (Call No.: ON 219/123)
BETTINGTON, Mrs Marian, c. 1876 (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 24)
BLACKWOOD, Mrs, c. 1889 (Call No.: ON 268/Box 4)
BRADY, Miss, c. 1905 (Call No.: ON 268/Box 4)
BURBURY, Mrs Annie, 1895 (Call No.: ON 268/Box 4)
CAMPBELL, Mrs, in wedding gown (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 3)
CAPE, Mrs (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 24)
COOPER, Mr (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 15)
CORNWALL, Duchess & Duke (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 1)
CORNWALL and York, Duke of, 1901 (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 13)
CUNNINGHAM, Miss Ethel (Call No.: ON 268/Box 5)
DANGAR, Miss Ruth, 1897 (Call No.: ON 268/Box 4)
DAY, Miss H., c. 1875 (Call No.: ON 268/Box 3)
DAY and MITCHELL group portrait (Call No.: ON 268/Box 5)
FITZGERALD, Miss (Call No.: ON 268/Box 5)
FORBES, Judge and Mrs Forbes (Call No.: ON 268/Box 5)
FYFFE, Dr Benjamin, c. 1876. Surgeon and physician (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 24)
GIBSON, Miss (Call No.: ON 268/Box 5)
GRIFFITH, Sir Samuel. Chief justice & premier. Head & shoulders portrait (Call No.: ON 268/Box 4)
GRIFFITH, Sir Samuel. Seated portrait (Call No.: ON 219/391)
HARE, Mrs, in wedding gown (Call No.: ON 268/Box 5)
HAWKINS, Mrs (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 1a)
HARRIS, COHEN, MARKS & other (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 24)
HARRIS family, c. 1879. Family of coal and produce merchant William Harris of Paddington (Call No.: ON 268/Box 2)
HARRISON, Mrs, c. 1875 (Call No.: ON 268/Box 2)
HIXSON family, c. 1898. Captain Francis Hixson, his wife Sarah and their six children. (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 15)
HOLLOW, Miss Beatrice (Call No.: ON 268/Box 5)
HOWARD, Rev. Stanley (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 24)
HUNT, John Horbury and Lloyd TAYLER, 1889. Architects (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 7 )
KNOX family, c. 1878. The family of Sir Edward Knox and his wife Martha (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 24)
LEES family (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 8)
LEWIS, Mrs (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 16)
MANNING, Beatrice (Trixie), c. 1900 (Call No.: ON 268/Box 4)
McQUADE, Mrs, c. 1885 (Call No.: ON 6/16x21/327)
MILLER, Mrs, in wedding gown (Call No.: ON 268/Box 5)
MULLINS (?) (Call No.: ON 268/Box 5)
OLLIVER, Mrs (Call No.: ON 268/Box 6)
ORR, Mrs, 1894 (Call No.: ON 268/Box 4)
PARKES, Sir Henry, and his third wife Julia (nee Lynch), 1895 (Call No.: ON 219/415)
PIERCE, Dr John, c. 1876. Surgeon at Maitland Hospital (Call No.: ON 268/Box 3)
RAWSON, Admiral Sir Harry, c. 1902. Admiral & governor (seated portrait) (Call No.: ON 219/367)
RAWSON, Admiral Sir Harry (full length portrait) (Call No.: ON 268/Box 5)
RILEY, Mrs., in evening dress (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 5)
RILEY, Mrs., in day dress (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 6)
RITCHIE, Miss (Call No.: ON 268/Box 5)
ROSE, Helene, c. 1905. Actress (Call No.: ON 268/Box 4)
SCOTT, Lord (Call No.: ON 268/Box 1)
SLOPER, Frederick, c. 1885. Chemist and druggist, on his Rover tricycle (Call No.: ON 6/16x21/225)
STEPHEN, Sir Alfred, 1893. Chief Justice & legislator (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 24)
STEPHENS group portrait (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 24)
STEVENSON, Robert Louis, and family, January 1893 (Call No.: ON 219/167)
STEWART, Nellie, c. 1908. Actress, full length portrait (Call No.: ON 6/16x21/224)
STEWART, Nellie, c. 1908, head & shoulders portrait (Call No.: ON 268/Box 4)
STEWART, Nellie, c. 1908, head & shoulders portrait, side profile (Call No.: ON 219/61)
SUFFRAGE Group, 1902. The Womanhood Suffrage League of NSW was formed in 1891. Back row, standing (L to R) Mrs Jackson (President of the Redfern Branch), Mrs Wynn (President of the Annandale Branch), Miss Caldwell (Camperdown), Mrs T. Parkes (President of the Toxteth League), Mrs Hansen (President of the Newtown Branch). Middle row, seated, Mrs McDonald (President of the Glebe Branch), Miss Annie Golding (Organising Secretary of the United Branches), Mrs Chapman (Secretary of the Redfern Branch). Front row, seated, Mrs C. Martel (Recording Secretary of the Central League), Miss Belle Golding (Secretary of the Newtown Branch), Mrs Dickie (ex-President of the Newtown League), Mrs Dwyer (Secretary of the Camperdown Branch). (Call No.: ON 219/96)
THOMSON, Lady Deas, c. 1874. Anne Maria Bourke, second daughter of Governor Bourke, married Edward Deas Thomson in 1833 (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 24)
THOMSON, Sir Edward Deas, c. 1874. Public servant & parliamentarian (Call No.: ON 6/25x30/Box 24)
UNKNOWN, full length portrait of female (Call No.: ON 268/Box2)
VON BURI, Madame (Call No.: ON 268/Box 5)
ZAHEL, Miss (Call No.: ON 6/16x21/254)
System of arrangement
Alphabetical
Access Conditions

Access via appointment
Finding Aids
Click here for a PDF version of the Gallery Guide "Freeman Studio in the Picture Gallery" acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2007/D00007/freeman.pdf
General note

These sixtyfour dry and wet plate glass negatives, selected from the Freeman Collection, were digitally photographed in June 2003. Thirty of the photographs were printed for the exhibition `Freeman Studio' held in the The Picture Gallery, Mitchell Wing, State Library of New South Wales, 25 August 2003 to May 2004, to celebrate 150 years of their `Sydney Gallery of Photographic Art', later known as the Freeman Studio.
Titled and dated by the Curator of Photographs, State Library of New South Wales, July 2003
Portraits in the Freeman and Co., Sydney, advertisement, 1900, identified in: The Australasian photographic review. Vol VII, No.7, July 21, 1900 p.27
Members of the Womanhood Suffrage League dated and identified from `Leichhardt : on the margins of the city : a social history of Leichhardt and the former municipalities of Annandale, Balmain and Glebe' / Max Solling and Peter Reynolds. St. Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1997 (p.147). The photograph was published in the Australian Town and Country Journal on 6 September 1902.
Architect Lloyd Tayler identified from a portrait in The Building, engineering and mining journal, 25 Aug 1900
Digital order no:Album ID : 824062
Name
Abdy, Mary
Bayly, Mrs.
Beauchamp, William Lygon, Earl of, 1872-1938
Bettington, Marian
Blackwood, Mrs.
Brady, Miss
Burbury, Annie
Caldwell, Miss.
Campbell, Mrs.
Cape, Mrs.
Chapman, Mrs.
Charley, Phillip, Captain
Chisholm family
Cooper, Mr.
Cunningham, Ethel
Dangar, Ruth
Day, H.
Dickie, Mrs.
Dwyer, Mrs.
Fitzgerald, Miss
Forbes (Judge)
Forbes, Mrs.
Freeman & Co.
Fyffe, Benjamin
George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936
Gibson, Miss
Golding, Annie
Golding, Belle
Griffith, Samuel, Sir, 1845-1920
Hansen, Mrs.
Hare, Mrs.
Harris family
Harrison, Mrs.
Hawkins, Mrs.
Hixson family
Hollow, Beatrice
Howard, Stanley, 1850-1883
Hunt, John Horbury, 1838-1904
Jackson, Mrs.
Knox family
Lees family
Lewis, Mrs
Lygon, Mary, Lady
McDonald, Mrs.
McQuade, Mrs.
Manning, Beatrice (Trixie)
Martel, Mrs. C.
Mary, Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain, 1867-1953
Miller, Mrs.
Olliver, Mrs.
Orr, Mrs.
Parkes, Julia
Parkes, Mrs. T.
Pierce, John
Rawson, Harry Holdsworth, Sir, 1843-1910
Riley, Mrs.
Ritchie, Miss
Rose, Helene
Scott, Lord
Sloper, Frederick
Stephen, Alfred, Sir, 1802-1894
Stevenson family
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Tayler, Lloyd
Thomson, Anne Deas, Lady, 1806-1884
Thomson, E. Deas (Edward Deas), 1800-1879
Von Buri, Madame
Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales
Wynn, Mrs.
Zahel, Miss
Subject
Suffragists.
Adult Females
Adult Males
Parkes, Henry, Sir, 1815-1896
Stewart, Nellie, 1858-1931
Topic
academic dress
actors
advertisements
architects
authors
brides
doctors (medical)
evening clothes
families
Governors
groups (people)
hats
historical costumes
judges
ministers of religion
official dress
photographic studios
portraits
royal family (Great Britain)
tricycles
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