• Title
  Etching of a windmill on a thank you card from Maie Casey to Mrs C. Chester (Jessica Stuart Russell, pseudonym), ca. 1968 / by Maie Casey
• Creator
  Maie Casey, 1891-1983
• Call number
  PXB 612
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1968
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  909395
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 print - 16.2 x 12.2 cm - etching
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Ethel Marian Sumner (Maie) Casey (1891-1983), writer, artist and flyer, was born on 13 March 1891. She studied at the Westminster School of Art, London. She volunteered in England during World War I at (Sir) Douglas Shields’s Hospital for Wounded Officers and then with Vera Deakin’s Australian Wounded and Missing Inquiry Bureau. Casey married the politician, governor and governor-general Richard Gavin Gardiner (Baron) on 24 June 1926 at St James’s parish church, Westminster. A pilot accorded membership with Amelia Earheart's Ninety-Nines and talented public speaker, she traveled internationally doing war work and in support of her husband's political career. A published author, her most known work is 'An Australian Story 1837-1907'. She died on 20 January 1983 at Edrington in Victoria and was buried beside her husband at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Macedon.
  
  Reference:
  Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/casey-ethel-marian-maie-12296 (accessed 29 August 2012)
• Scope and Content
  Card sent from Canberra 7 February 1968 thanking Mrs C. Chester for a hand sewn handkerchief.
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years
  Copyright holder:: Maie Casey
  Approval for reproduction required:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.4133 as part of the eRecords Project 2012-13
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Etching autographed by Maie Casey, inside card contains personal thank you message to Mrs C. Chester
• Date note
  
  Dated by cataloguer
• Name
  Chester, C.
  
• Subject
  Women artists--Australia--20th century.
  Women authors, Australian--20th century--Correspondence.
  Women air pilots, Australian--20th century.
  
• Topic
  windmills
  etchings
  greeting cards
  water tanks
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE10393875

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