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909883
  • Title
    Pictures and realia from the papers of Marjorie Barnard, 31 August 1848-1970
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXE 1166
    MIN 471
    MIN 472
    R 1124
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    31 August 1848-1970
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    909883
  • Physical Description
    6 photographic prints - 20.5 x 14 cm. or smaller (inside mount), 37 x 25.5 cm. (mounted)
    3 silhouettes - ca. 9.5 x 7cm.
    1 lock of human hair - 9 x 14.5 cm. (envelope)
    4 medals - 8.5 x 6 cm. (mounted medal) or smaller - metal, mounted or in boxes
    1 photographic print - 23 x 23 cm. - framed
    3 photographic prints - 13.5 x 8.5 cm. or smaller - miniatures
    20 prints - 14 x 16 cm. or smaller - includes etchings
    1 watercolour - 13 x 18.5 cm.
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Marjorie Faith (Marjory) Barnard (1897-1987), writer and historian, was born on 16 August 1897 at Ashfield, Sydney, only child of Sydney-born parents Oswald Holme Barnard, clerk, and his wife Ethel Frances, née Alford, and was baptised in the Anglican church

    At the University of Sydney (BA, 1920) Barnard graduated with first-class honours and the university medal in history. Well regarded by the history professor George Arnold Wood, she was offered a scholarship to the University of Oxford. However her father, now a strict Presbyterian, prevented her from taking it up

    Barnard began work at the Public Library of New South Wales, where she topped library school examinations in 1921. Later she was transferred to Sydney Technical College, where she was librarian-in-charge from 1925. She pursued her writing at night. Her first book, short stories of childhood entitled The Ivory Gate, was published by Henry Champion in 1920

    Reference:
    Australian Dictionary of Biography http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/barnard-marjorie-faith-marjory-12176 (accessed 25 June, 2012)
  • Scope and Content
    PXE 1166
    Portrait of Oswald Holme Barnard (father of Marjorie Barnard), aged 3 years [?], 1870 [?]

    Portrait of Oswald Holme Barnard taken at the time of his marriage

    3 portraits of Ethel Francis Barnard (mother of Marjorie Barnard), one as a young child, another at the time of her marriage in 1894 and finally in middle age

    Small portrait of Marjorie Barnard taken at the age of 18 months in 1899

    Portrait of Ethel Francis Barnard taken by Dorothy Welding in the 1940s

    3 traditional silhouettes being of Charles Beresford Mainstone (great grandfather of Marjorie Barnard), Geraldine Mainstone (eldest daughter of Charles Beresford) and Isabel Alice Mainstone (younger sister of Geraldine)

    2 limited edition prints (from etchings) and 1 watercolour with accompanying published explanatory text (by Leon Woizikowsky and Harold Byrne) of female ballet dancers by Harold Byrne made from sketches made during performances of Col. de Basil's Monte Carlo Co., 1937

    18 prints of Marjorie Barnard's bookplate made by Harold Byrne, 1936

    ML 1448
    Framed portrait of Marguerite Barnard (nee Holmes), grandmother of Marjorie Barnard as a young woman

    MIN 471
    Frame containing photographs of 2 small drawings of Marjorie Barnard's maternal grandparents

    MIN 472
    Miniature of Ethel Francis Barnard (being the same image as the photograph taken by Dorothy Welding)

    R 1124
    Item 1
    Lock of hair from the infant head of Charles Beresford Mainstone, 31 August 1848

    Item 2
    Sydney University Medal for History, awarded to Marjorie Barnard in 1920

    Item 3
    Medal commemorating the Coronation of King George, 12 May 1937 (with accompanying certificate. Certificate is housed in PXE 1166) forwarded to Marjorie Barnard

    Item 4
    Medal commemorating the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, 2 June 1953 (with accompanying certificate. Certificate is housed in PXE 1166) forwarded to Marjorie Barnard

    Item 5
    Mounted medal commemorating the bi-centenary of Captain Cook's landing in Australia, 1970

    Forms part of MLMSS 2809
  • Access Conditions

    Access via appointment - Applies to MIN 471, MIN 472, and R 1124
  • Description source

    Information about the material supplied by the donor via attached notes
  • General note

    Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.3277 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012
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