Check family photographs [album], 1891-1910

PXE 1016

fonds

1891-1910

Graphic Materials, Photographs

872474

1 album (102 photographs) - album measures 28 x 39 cm. but pages are removed & stored separately - albumen

BOX 1
Original album cover & spine with one unidentified family portrait affixed to inside cover

BOX 2
ALBUM PAGES:
1. Female portraits, some with dogs
2. Cape Byron Lighthouse, 1907
3. Female portraits & dray signed "Joseph Check Photographer
4. Family portraits including Joseph Check at upper right [individual portrait] and at centre of family portrait at lower right
5. Stanley, Tasmania
6. Waratah, Tasmania; Imperial Hotel, Queenstown, Tasmania; Tasmanian scenery
7-8. Family portraits, incl. Doolan & Joseph Check
9. Family portraits; Columba Falls
10. Weldborough Road, Tasmania incl. Thompson's Coach
11. Mr J. Young's buildings, Annandale, Sydney
12. Hawkesbury Bridge
13. Cassillis Station drawing room looking NW. Homestead destroyed by fire ca. 1900. Still owned by a Busby
14. Pine Ridge Station, south of Coolah & Prop. Henry George Cox esquire
15. Homestead at Mullaley
16. Goolhi [shearing shed] near Mullaley, 1891
17. Turanville Dining Room, near Scone
18. Turanville Sitting Room
19. Hawkesbury Bridge, end view
20. A view on the Coloroy Estate
21. Conservatory, Lue Station, between Mudgee and Rylestone
22. Brindley Park Dining Room looking west
23. Interior, St. Alban's Church, Muswellbrook
24. Coloroy Compo. [i.e. Company] new homestead, built 1883
25. Rock of Gibraltar, Martindale Estate
26. Bengalla Drawing Room, Muswellbrook (Matilda Key's nee Deloitte)
27. Martindale Estate, Muswellbrook. The White's house
28. Havilah, White family property at Mudgee, 1891
29. [Unidentified property]
30. Brindley Park; Tattersall's Hotel, Coolah
31. Great Western Store, Coolah; Horse of Mrs Cox [Putta Bucca Station?]
32-34. Pine Ridge Station
35. Mt. Steward Silver Mine, near Coolah
36. Coolah Creek crossing, Pine Ridge Station
37. Mount Steward Silver Mines near Coolah
38-39. Royal Hotel Denison town
40. Gulgong looking NE
41. Gulgong looking SW
42. [Cattle]
43. Wool room, Goolhi, 1891
44. Goolhi, 1891
45. Acopie [horse]; Gladiator - Hogget ram showing belly & underneath; Circus, Gunedah
46. Bullock trains, Goolhi, 1891
47. [Ram], 1891
48. [?] Station
49. Hogget ewe, the best I ever saw; Group of 2 year old ewes; Hogget ram; 2 year old ewes, Havilah 1891
50. Cranbrook, property of HC White Esq; Mr Baley considered this ram the best he ever bred. Please compare him with the rams of the present day buck by HC White from the same pure Havilah blood. None of the stud rams now in use cut less than 18 lbs, all grass fed
51. Stud ram; 2 year old ewes; stud ram; Hogget ram, HC White, Havilah, 1891
52. Hogget ram (all the Havilah sheep are grass fed); 2 year old ewe; stud ram; 2 year old ewe, HC White, Havilah, 1891
53. Commercial store, Mudgee
54. Bank of NSW Drawing Room
55. View near Putta Bucca Station
56. Putta Bucca Waterhole
57. Interior, St Mary's Church, Mudgee
58. St Mary's Church & convent, Mudgee
59. Night photo, 24.1.98 [Dining room interior]
60. [Ya]bsleys Drawing Room - Coraki - Richmond River. Night flashlight photo, 1898
61-66. Family portraits, including pets
67. First Basin Columbia Falls, Tasmania ; Fern valley
68. Columbia Falls, Tasmania, 1907
69-70. Family portraits including Vera Bartle, Muriel Bartle, Harold Bartle, Ivy Everall, [Edice?], Vivian Bartle et. al. at Zeehan, Tasmania
71. Joseph Check drawing room, 13 Halloran Street, Leichhardt
72. S.B. Clifts Cynisca Conservatory & Back Hall
73. Mrs L[?] of Tamworth
74. Mr W. Snow & Eva Check, [1904?]

LOOSE PHOTOGRAPHS:
75. Lily, Eppie & Ruby, 23/6/1910
76. [Eva & Eugenie?] 18/7/1909
77. Mrs [?] Eva
78-89. Unidentified family portraits

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Titled in album margins or on photoprints

"Photos pasted in to your own book free of charge" -- p.19
"A beautiful present of 100 photos 10 + 12 inches for 25/- mounted in your own book free of charge" -- p.39
"Orders received by numbers / 50, 10 + 12 inch photos only 67/6 if necessary mounted in your own book free of charge" -- p. 56

Though including family portraits, the inscriptions in some margins about pricing suggest the album was also used as a portfolio of Check's work for clients

Dated in album margins or on photoprints

Leaves removed from album which is in poor repair but original album kept for future restoration