Prospecting photographs by William Lang in Western Australia, ca.1900, copy of photograph album by Elizabeth Cape, ca.1915-1923, and photographs of Cape family portraits, 1975

PXA 1401
MAV/FM4/6461

fonds

ca.1900-1975

Graphic Materials, Photographs

909332

32 photographic prints - silver gelatin
1 microfilm reel of pictorial material - 35 mm - negative

PXA 1401
26 photoprints from glass plate negatives taken by William Lang ca.1900 while prospecting in Western Australia. Includes scenes of miners' camps, panning, Aboriginal people, horses and coaches, and the Albany Benefit Building Investment & Loan Society Permanent and Woodelton photographer's premises on Albany waterfront (silver gelatin photoprints made 1976 from glass negatives lent for copying)
1 studio portrait of W. F. Cape (copied by Pascoe from framed photo lent by Miss Cape). Original photograph hand-coloured, signed 'W Braulew' at lower left on mount. Photograph 20 x 26 cm within mount. Small crest (3 lions) at lower centre on mount (half plate negative at MAV / FM2 / 2036)
Photographs of 5 paintings in the home of Elizabeth Cape, 1976, including W. T. Cape, oval portrait in pastel, possibly by Dalton; Captain John Larking Scarvell, oval portrait in pastel; John Redmond Barnes Scarvell, portrait by Richard Noble, oil; Sarah Scarvell nee Redmond, oval portrait in pastel; and view of St. Matthews, Windsor, oil signed Richd. Noble, Windsor 1855 (35 mm negatives at MAV / FM2 / 2036)

MAV / FM4 / 6461
Cape family photograph album, ca.1915-1923. Microfilm negative of 91 album pages.
Includes aviation scenes, family travels and views of properties: 'Yalgoo', Wentworth Rd, Vaucluse, with wounded soldiers from Randwick Military Hospital, 1915; 'Carlaminda', Cooma; Honnor[?] family at 'Moana', Bowral; German internment camp, Berrima River, 1917; 'Graythwaite', Point Piper. 1917; 'Meriden', Bellevue Hill, interior views, 1918; family wearing influenza masks, 1919; Kameruka House, nera Bega; 'Manar' near Braidwood; 'Turalla', Bungendore; 'Burrangong', Young, Mr & Mrs Herbert Barritt[?]; camp at the Tuross with the Ryries.

Aviation scenes include: pp.41-42: Sir Ross Smith's arrival, Mascot, 1920; pleasure flights at Manly during carnival; p.49: aerial derby Mascot, Nov. 1920; p.54: Mascot April 1920. My first flight. Avro

The oil and pastel portraits were seen by the Mitchell Librarian at Miss Cape's home in January 1975, and Miss Cape agreed to their being photographed by the Library. They were said also to have been seen and documented by the researcher Eve Buscombe, who thought that the pastel portraits were by Dalton. The oil portrait of John Redmond Barnes Scarvell is now held by the Mitchell Library (ML 1194).

The photographs of prospecting in Western Australia were printed from glass plate negatives taken by Miss Cape's uncle, William Lang, about 1900; the plates were lent to the Library for copying in November 1975.

The physical description of the original framed photograph of W. F. Cape is taken from a note made when the item was copied (note discarded). It stated that W. F. Cape was the first chairman of the Sydney Stock Exchange 1872-1874 and the grandfather of J. H. and E. M. Cape of Rose Bay.

Miss Cape was a keen photographer, who got her first camera in 1915, when the Cape family photograph album begins (MAV / FM4 / 6461). Most photographs in the album are clearly labelled and dated. Miss Cape's father was a keen aviation fan and the photographs include outings to see aeronautical events. The album was lent to the Library for copying in March 1976. Microfilm of other family documents lent by Miss Cape for copying in November 1975 is held at MAV / FM4 / 6462.


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