• Title
  [Felix the Cat doll and a child] : souvenir of Katoomba, ca. 1928 / taken at Echo Point by D. Evans
• Creator
  D. Evans
• Call number
  MIN 413
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1928
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  446140
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - image 8.2 x 5.7 cm. , mount 13.6 x 9.8 cm. - 1 tintype photoprint
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  D. Evans, a Welshman, was also known as "The Felix Man" in Katoomba. His photographic portraits taken at Echo Point may have been seasonal work. Visitors were keen to have their photograph taken with a large Felix doll, a Mickey Mouse lookalike or the "Mountain Devil".
  There is no listed entry for D. Evans in directories for commercial premises nor in telephone directories for Katoomba in the late 1920's or 1930's. He lived in Kurrawan Street within walking distance of Echo Point. Since the 1920's this area comprised small cottages with no commercial premises. Perhaps Evans ran his business from home, printing his photographs at night.
  Although tintypes were old technology by the 1930's, Evans still produced them as they were inexpensive and quick to process. -- Information supplied by Judy Nelson, Curator, Reclaiming Felix the Cat (exhibition, 2005)
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  "Souvenir of Katoomba / (Taken at Echo Point)" -- printed on lower edge of mount
  For other Evans portraits posed with Felix, Mickey and the Mountain Devil, see -- Blue Mountains : pictorial memories / John Low. 2nd ed. Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Atrand, 1994
  Digital order no:a928170
• Name
  Felix the Cat (fictitious character)
  
• Subject
  girls
  
• Topic
  dolls
  fictitious beings
  portraits
  
• Place
  Echo Point (Katoomba, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Reclaiming Felix the Cat
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3314275

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