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913180
  • Title
    Photographic portraits from an album belonging to David Joseph Monk, ca.1861-1909 / D.J. Monk
  • Creator
  • Call number
    ON 463
    PXA 1309
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca.1861-1909
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    913180
  • Physical Description
    2 negatives - 21.5 x 16.5 cm - glass
    16 prints - 11 x 16.5 cm - some coloured
    4 photographic prints (postcards) - 11 x 16.5 cm or smaller
    86 photographs - 22.3 x 17.2 cm - albumen, gelatin silver
  • Collection history
    From an album belonging to David Joseph Monk (Monk's Vinegar). He developed many of his own photographs -- information from donor.
  • Scope and Content
    ON 463
    2 glass plates of portraits of unidentified women

    PXA 1309
    Chiefly carte-de-visite and tintype portraits, including David Joseph Monk and Elizabeth Patience Monk. 14 unidentified albumen prints (probably those developed by D. J. Monk himself) are pasted onto cuttings from a printed Monk's Australian Vinegar Works catalogue

    Identified subjects include:
    D. J. Monk
    Mrs Barker, 1862
    W. D. Meares, 1871
    W. Cormack
    Mary Maud Bremner
    W. W. Board
    Mrs R. H. Nicholas, 1861
    R. W. Thompson Jn.
    Mrs Morgan
    Mrs Herron
    Mrs J. Scholes
    Muriel Constance Webb, aged 2 yrs 4 mths
    Maria L. Walker, 1882
    Aubrey Ernest Webb, aged 3 yrs 10 mths
    Mrs. C. Lamb
    Cecil? Digby Cox
    Percy Digby Cox
    Miss Sutton
    Clara Harcourt
    Alfred Rofe
    Pauline P. B. S. Dangar 16/11/70
    Miss Elizabeth J. Barker 1861
    Cecie La Grandiere, Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball, July 1881
    A. A. Davison
    Alice Phillips, Ada Keevil Watts and Elizabeth Patience Monk, 1909


    Studios include:

    Carte-de-visite and cabinet card:
    B. C. Boake, Sydney
    M. W. Greenfeld, Sydney
    Daniel Jones, Liverpool
    Elijah Hart, West Maitland
    H. Goodes, Mudgee
    J. Hubert Newman, Sydney
    G. H. Nicholas, West Maitland
    Mathewson, Brisbane
    Wood, Sydney
    W. H. Schroder & Vosper, Sydney
    Stewart & Co, Melbourne
    J. Davis, Sydney
    Slade & King, Sydney
    Alexander McDonald
    A. Carlisle, Sydney
    Boyd, Sydney
    J. T. Gorus, Sydney
    Paterson Brothers, Melbourne
    Albert Lomer, Brisbane

    Tintype:
    Gove & Allen, Sydney

    Includes 16 French and Italian cabinet card reproductions of paintings [some coloured], ca. 1880-1910
  • System of arrangement
    Cataloguer's arrangement:¶Identified carte-de-visite photographs¶Unidentified carte-de-visite photographs¶Tintypes, unidentified¶Albumen prints developed by D. J. Monk, unidentified¶Cabinet card portraits, identified¶Photographic views (8)
  • Copying Conditions
    Copyright status:: Copyright expired - Created before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • General note

    This pictorial material is part of papers at MLDOC 1762

    Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.2043 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    One carte-de-visite by American & Australasian Photographic Company is signed "Beaufoy Merlin" on verso
  • Conservation note

    Both glass plates have emulsion scratched through across facial features
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