• Title
  Series 01 Part 03-04: Irene Victoria Read pictorial material and relics, 1839-1951
• Call number
  PXD 1143
  R 1117
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1839-1951
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects, Architectural and Technical Drawings, Textual Records, Photographs, Medals
• Reference code
  910142
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  8 photographic prints - 30 x 34 cm. or smaller
  1 architectural drawing (in two pieces) - 21.5 x 34cm. (x 2) - pencil
  hair (camels) - 6 x 10 cm. (envelope)
  1 measuring instrument (tape) - 7 x 4.5 cm.
  2 volumes of textual material - 10 x 6 cm. (each)
  1 crucifix - 10 x 7 cm. - metal
  1 commemorative medal (with box) - 7.5 x 7.5 cm. (box) - metal
  1 charity badge (with backing) - 3.5 x 8.5 cm. (backing) - metal, cardboard
  textual material (4 cartons)
  
• Scope and Content
  PXD 1143
  1. Group portrait titled, 'Teachers. Girls High School, 1896' [i.e. Sydney Girls' High School]
  Left to right standing: W. J. Holmes, M.A. ; Miss Bowmaker, M.A. ; Miss Whitfeld ; W. Williams, B.A.
  Left to right seated: Miss I.F. Thompson, M.A. ; Mrs Garvin ; Miss Bruce, B.A.
  
  2. R.M.S. Orontes, 1911 / taken by Felix Giuglard of Marseille with signatures on photograph including Irene V. Read. Inscribed on reverse "I.V. Read / T. / off W.A. coast, Jan 23rd 1911"
  
  3. No. 2 Australian General Hospital / Camp section in charge of Major W.H. Read / Mena / Egypt / May 1915 [first Australian hospital to be pitched in the war]
  
  4. Untitled [another view of hospital camp]
  
  5. No. 2 Australian General Hospital / Mena House / Egypt. The first batch of wounded Australian soldiers from Gallipoli / May 1915
  
  6. No. 2 Australian General Hospital / Mena House / Egypt / May 1915 / The first batch of wounded / Australian soldiers from / Gallipoli
  
  7. Untitled [another view of soldiers at Mena House]
  
  8. S.S. Demosthenes [1915] / taken by W.T. Munns, Gravesend. With signatures on mount.
  
  9. Plan of No 2 Gen. Hos. Camp. [General Hospital Plan] / [undated] pencil plan
  
  
  R 1117/Item 01
  1 envelope containing camels hair clipped by the Australian Camel Corps, Egypt, World War I. Envelope is addressed to Margaret [Homes]
  
  R 1117/Item 02-item 04
  1 measuring tape with needle and thread with two small instruction (pattern) books for knitting soldiers socks (The Grey Sock : Soldiers' Sock Fund) in World War I, ca. 1915. [one copy with annotations]
  
  R 1117/Item 05
  1 metal Toc H Cross, ca. 1915
  
  R 1117/Item 06
  1 medal (with box) commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the landing of Arthur Phillip in Sydney Cove, 1938
  
  R 1117/Item 07
  1 badge sold in support of the Australian Air League Appeal to raise 10,000 pounds in World War II, ca. 1939
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment - Applies to R 1117
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.3304 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I papers
  Digital order no:Album ID : 996773
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  interiors
  military hospitals
  wounded soldiers
  soldiers
  nurses
  steamships
  teachers
  portraits
  badges
  medals
  crucifixes
  camels
  pyramids
  tents
  
• Place
  Mena House
  Egypt
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Dalgety Walkway display cases 2012
  Life Interrupted: Personal Diaries from World War I
  Quick March! The Children of World War I
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE186608

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