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844791
  • Title
    Item 01: Family photographs, ca. 1888-1935 / quarter plates photographed by John Steanes; half plates by Hewitt Steanes, The Corso, Manly
  • Call number
    PXA 1175
  • Level of description
    item
  • Date

    ca. 1888-1935
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    844791
  • Physical Description
    254 photographic prints - 14 x 10.2 cm or smaller - chiefly gelatin silver
  • Scope and Content
    1-6. Aboard Steanes' troopship Boonah, World War I
    7-9. HMS Renown and Sydney decorations for the visit of the Prince of Wales, 1920
    9-12. Sydney views, including Martin Place, Wynyard Square, Burdekin House, St Mary's Cathedral, the Mint, Pitt Street, the Archibald Fountain, Bondi and Balmoral Beaches
    12-13. Erection of the HMAS Sydney (I) mast, Bradley's Head, 24 October 1934
    14. South pylon, Sydney Harbour Bridge, April 1927; Private Rowlands; soldiers on camels at the Sphinx; ship farewell; girl with Australian Red Ensign
    14-15. Group, Cronulla Beach, 11 Feb 1933 & 11 March 1933
    16. Terrigal, 19 February 1933
    16-17. Wiluna - electric locomotives
    17. John and Mary, and daughter Catherine Ann, Steanes' headstone; weir, Mulgoa (?)
    18. Sibbertoft, Mosman and the view from the house; Cenotaph, Anzac Day, 1930; Palm Beach (?); New England Airways Avro Ten VH-UPI
    19. Children's ward; Flinders Street Station; Brisbane city
    19-20. Car trip, Blandford church, MacDonald River punt, Wisemans Ferry ruin
    20-21. Tamworth; Kangaroo Valley; Victory 1919, Customs House; War Chest Day, Martin Place, 1917
    22-23. Sibbertoft, Mosman and views; picnic Clark Island, 18 October 1913
    24. Berowra Creek, 5 October 1931; Harbour Bridge pylon construction; Allies Day; Walker Hospital
    25. Gasworks, Mortlake; War Chest Day, 28 September 1917; Railway excavations, Hyde Park; Barrenjoey
    26. War fundraising, Customs House; Commonwealth Savings Bank construction, 1915; Collaroy Beach
    27-28. PFA (Pastoral Finance Association) fire, Kirribilli, 13 December 1921
    28. View from Beanbah; War fundraising, Martin Place
    29- 30. Decorations, illuminations and HMS Renown, Royal Visit, 1920; south coast
    31. Kangaroo Valley; Bridal Veil Falls, Leura; Shoalhaven River bridge; Burrinjuck city, 3 August 1914
    32. John Steanes & E.C.D.; Three Sisters; Linda Falls, Leura
    32-33. Fitzroy Falls valley, The Gap, Leura; Francis Birtles and Joe Pearson "on the road", South Coast, 26 June 1916
    34. Coast Road; Stanwell Park from Bald Hill; The hut, Boronia, 1922; Orchards, Gosford
    35. Car trips, Samford, Queensland and Moonan Flat
    35-38. Railway scenes, including "Jack" and No.1, Eveleigh and Queensland
    38-44. Passenger and troopships, including Boonah A36, Barambah A37, Ormonde camouflaged; HMS Powerful; farewells including Mooltan, March 1915
    44. Interior, St Luke's, Mosman; S.L. Tennis Club 1916; soldiers in camp
    45-46. Electric generators; Coalcliff jetty
    47. Coal mine, Bundanoon; Blowhole, Kiama; Flinders Street Station and Yarra
    48-49. Brisbane flood, 7 February 1931
    49-51. Steanes brothers; waterfall; Burrinjuck Dam, including "Jack"
    51-52. German internment, Berrima
    53. Nielsen Park; regatta, Peace celebrations, Farm Cove, 1919
    54. Decorations on Government Savings Bank, Commonwealth Bank and GPO, Martin Place, for Victory, 1919; Mosman Bay
    55. Nielsen Park; Cremorne Point
    56. Middle Harbour
    57. Mosman Bay; Lavender Bay
    58. Kurraba Point, Neutral Bay and Kirribilli Point; interior, St Luke's Church, Mosman
    59. Thomas Knight Steanes in militia uniform, before 1888 / albumen cabinet photograph by Yung Kong, Shanghai; Private J.H. Steanes
    60. Sir Frederick Stewart Daimler, numberplate NSW 1, Ford A-model numberplate NSW 2 and Vauxhall numberplate NSW 3, in the drive of the Lottie Stewart Hospital
  • System of arrangement
    By size
  • General note

    No. 60 catalogued with information supplied by David Manson, March 2009

    No. 60 previously incorrectly identified as being "in the drive of Spanish Mission golf club or similar". Identified as Lottie Stewart Hospital by comparison to images online and Slides 53, August 2010
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