Connor family photograph albums, photographs and realia, ca. 1836-1976

PXA 1617/Boxes 1-3
R 2023/Items 1-2
FM2/2069

fonds

ca. 1836-1976

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera, Drawings, Objects

903274

3 albums (166 photographs) - 26 x 22 cm and smaller
79 photographs - 23 x 28 cm and smaller - 2 tintypes, 2 postcards:
1 drawing - 9.8 x 13.4 cm - pencil:
3 negatives - 35 mm: ; - colour
3 textile pieces - material from wedding dress:
1 lock of hair

Rev. George Murray Connor M.A. was a Free Church of Scotland minister and son of John Connor and Catherine Ann Connor (nee Murray) of 'Belvedere', Grafton. He was minister of the Presbyterian Church at Sale, Victoria for 25 years. After retiring in 1912 he moved to Alphington Street, Alphington, Melbourne

PXA 1617/Box 1
Photograph album belonging to Rev. George Murray Connor, 1890s-1900s. Contains photographs of the Connor, Gibbs and Gardner families.

Photograph album belonging to Rev. George Murray Connor, ca. 1880-ca.1920. Contains photographs of the Connor and Murray families.

PXA 1617/Box /2
Photograph album belonging to Dr Francis Gillies Connor, 1890s. Contains photographs of Lismore and district including Yamba.

PXA 1617/Box 3
Loose photographs of Rev. George Murray Connor and family, and Rev. James Wararop Gardner and family, 1860s-1976. Includes: 3 photographs of a watercolour of 'Belvedere', Grafton, 1874, by W.E. Reed; an albumen photograph of 'Vailima', Robert Louis Stevenson's home in Samoa, 1899; two framed tin types of an unidentified men.

Drawing of an unidentified house, pencil.

R 2023
Item 1. Three pieces of material from the wedding dresses of I.W. Longmuir (striped silk), her mother (white muslin), and her "grandmother Courage" (brown silk).

Item 2. Lock of hair with note 'You won't know me when you come home. Alas, what bare faced youth is this!' Discovered in the family correspondence held by F. G. Connor.

FM2/2069
Three negatives of 'Belvedere', Grafton.

Forms part of the Connor family papers, 1687-1985, compiled 198-, at
MLMSS 5237

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Pic.Acc. Update Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.6884 as part of the eRecords Project, 2012-2013

Majority of photographs identified on verso

Fair condition