Photographs and personal effects from the Mackellar family papers, February 1881-194-?

PXA 1457
PXE 1123
R 1103

series

February 1881-194-?

Graphic Materials, Objects, Photographs, Drawings, Ephemera

913467

2 buttons (in boxes) - 4 x 4.5 cm (box) - metal
1 snuff box - 2 x 5 cm. - metal
1 tobacco tin (in pouch) - metal
4 albums (28 photographic prints, 4 drawings) - 33 x 25 cm. or smaller
Approximately 171 photographic prints and 2 objects - 31.5 x 26.5 cm. or smaller - hair
1 Cigarette lighter (case) - 4.5 x 4 cm. - metal
1 brooch (in box) - 3.5 x 3.5 cm. - metal

Sir Charles Kinnaird Mackellar (1844-1926) was a businessman, physician and a politician.

Forms part of Mackellar family papers, 1783-1968, with associated material, 1833-1894 (MLMSS 1959)

R 1103

ITEM 1
Brooch with coat of arms in a small box

Items 2-3
Buttons (Percy Edwards & Co) in boxes

Item 4
Small pig shaped snuff box on a chain

Item 5
1 cigarette lighter case with the initials 'KKM' (Keith K. MacKellar)

Item 6
1 tobacco tin in 'Transvaal Tobacco' pouch


PXA 1457

Box 1
Small album of 4 portraits of albumen prints including:
Charles Kinnaird Mackellar, 1 adult woman, 1 teenage boy, 1 teenage girl (probably Charles Kinnaird Mackellar family)
Portraits of soldiers including signed portrait of Keith K. Mackellar

Album of 10 photographs, 'Tarrangaua, 1936', including:
2 portraits of Dorothea Mackellar, bush scenes, an interior and a picture of turkeys
Album of 5 portraits of Keith K. Mackellar as a boy, one aged seven months, February 1881. Includes 11 photographs in album pouch.

Small album of drawings:
2 of Chinese males in bondage and one of butterflies, a grasshopper and small insects

Album (badly damaged) of 9 photographic portraits and pictures including:
Man on a horse, 1906, a Japanese garden, portraits of unidentified males, 2 soldiers (one is Keith K. Mackellar), cartoon of 3 males by Arthur Mailey

9 portrait photographs in their own studios folders, postcards from Japan.

Box2
91 Photographic prints including:
Family portraits, equestrian rider
Posed boxer 'Gus?'
Print of 'The Russian Torpedo 'Rastorpni' sunk in the Harber (sic) Chefoo, 10 November 1904
Several portraits of soldiers including photos of country living including attention given to a cow
Photo of damaged (bombed?) houses marked '...Somme'
Uniformed man parading on a horse, Australian bush and river scene marked 'Miss Mackellar
With best wishes from 'Ghandi' 1934'
Portrait of Keith K. Mackellar in uniform by Bernice Elgar
Portrait in folder signed Kathleen H. Finn, Dec. 1917 by C & R MacFarlane.
Many portraits of largely unidentified males and females
Portraits of Keith K. Mackellar and Dorothea Mackellar
Tomb with prone stone knight
Portrait signed Charles Mackellar
Religious parade in Europe
Hurstville Junior Technical School-Educational Camp Shellharbour inscribed, 'To Miss Dorothea Mackellar as a small mark of our appreciation of her recitation of 'My Country' at Vaucluse House, 3rd December, 1924 (lists students)
Duplicate portrait of Keith K. Mackellar signed to CKM from MK, Christmas 1909
Men on horseback outside Royal Hotel
Unknown male and female in Arabic dress stamped 16 February 1905
Portrait of Jessie Conrad (wife of author Joseph Conrad) signed, 'To Dorothea with love from her old friend Jessie, 1927
Man beside woman on horse signed Pauline? and Snowy Baker
Portrait of Jessie and Joseph Conrad with a boy (grandson?) signed, 'To Dorothea MacKellar affectionately from Jessie Conrad, 1920'
Photo of grave of K. K. MacKellar, 2nd Lnt, 7 Dragoon Guards, July 11 1900 (South Africa)
1 hand coloured photographic portrait of an unidentified male member of the Mackellar family

PXE 1123
Approximately 70 photographic prints and other material including:
Portrait of woman, 'may be Polly', photo of bridge 1900, lock of of hair in envelope marked 'Ms Mackellar, lock of Ruth Bedford's hair, several portraits of Charles Kinnaird Mackellar (some duplication), portraits of Dorothea Mackellar, portrait of Malcolm Mackellar, February 1904, portraits of babies and children (possibly Dorethea and siblings), portrait of a mother with son, Inglewood Polo Gymkhana 1909, tank with 2 soldiers on top, portrait of Elizabeth Robinson, aged 17, 'Nursery H'cap, 1st Div 4 3/4 fur, Rosehill 2.11.25, Mr E. B. Mackellar's 'Bunkum' 1st', portrait of a woman signed, 'Dorothea, lest you forget, Polly', portraits of unidentified females (one older), views of Sydney Harbour and Sydney Harbour Bridge, bush, country and coastal views, portrait of soldier (signed Charles Ryan?), shearing shed with 75 shearers, sheep and cows grazing, Lovett Bay, Kuringai Chase NSW, female with 2 males and a horse (unidentified), portrait of older male inscribed (Mackellar 12 Grey Brooks), framed photo of a horse

Out of copyright: Created before 1955 (photographs)
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Dorothea Mackellar Estate (Curtis Brown)

Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.1913 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012

Box 1 contains silk album with loose pages and fragments of drawings