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1207702
  • Title
    Henchman family photograph album, ca 1860-1890?
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXE 1643
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca 1860-1890?
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    1207702
  • Physical Description
    1 album (113 photographs, 5 greeting cards) - 30 x 23 x 7 cm. - cartes-de-visite and cabinet
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    In 1878 William Henchman (1842-1906) and his wife Jane McIlwraith, née Wallace (1845-1923) emigrated to Australia from England. They had eight children: Mary (1866-1936), Elinor Agnes Muriel (1868-1892), Adela Mabel (1870-1943), William (1871-1871), John Evelyn Wallace (1872-1939), Hereward Humfry (1874-1939), Hubert James Hungerford (b. 1876) and Daphne Isald (1885-1970).

    The photograph album was kept by Daphne Isald Henchman.

    Reference:
    Library correspondence file
  • Scope and Content
    Tooled, leather bound photographic album. Each portrait is mounted in the album, and includes cartes-de-visite and cabinet photographs. Clasp from back cover is missing and some pages have missing images.

    Images are of men, women, adolescents, children and babies of the Henchman family, ca 1860 to 1890?

    Photograhers include Stewart & Co., Melbourne; R.J. Robinson, Ardrossan Sth Australia; Goode Photography, Rockhampton; Johnstone O'Shannessy, Melbourne; F. Lindt, Melbourne; and, Charlemont, Sydney and Melbourne. Other photographers are from the U.K.

    Includes a 6 page photocopy of the Henchman family tree compiled by D.C. Henchman, June 1996.
  • Copying Conditions
    Copyright status:: Out of copyright - created before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Some photographs are identified on verso and dated.
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