Old Catalogue
Manuscripts, oral history and pictures catalogue
Adlib Internet Server 5
Try the new catalogue. Start exploring now ›

Details



Print
872474
  • Title
    Check family photographs [album], 1891-1910
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXE 1016
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1891-1910
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    872474
  • Physical Description
    1 album (102 photographs) - album measures 28 x 39 cm. but pages are removed & stored separately - albumen
  • Scope and Content
    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
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Created before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Description source

    Titled in album margins or on photoprints
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    "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
  • Attributions / conjectures

    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
  • Date note

    Dated in album margins or on photoprints
  • Conservation note

    Leaves removed from album which is in poor repair but original album kept for future restoration
  • Subject
  • Topic
  • Place
  • Browse collection hierarchy
  • Manuscript Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • X
  • Y
  • Z

Share this result by email