Photographic portraits of the Hardge and Boxall families, ca. 1884-ca. 1930

PXE 1733

fonds

ca. 1884-ca. 1930

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9591513

12 photographs - gelatin silver, palladium, hand coloured, cabinet card

The Hardge family originally came from Eltville in Nassau on the Rhine where they were vinedressers. Joseph’s grandfather, Johann Hardge, his wife and family of five children were brought to Australia by one of the Macarthur family as assisted immigrants to work on the vineyards at Camden Park. They left Hamburg on the Catteau Wattell and arrived in Sydney 9 March 1855. Johann was naturalised 7 August 1858. Joseph and Ada Hardge married in 1892 and lived in Redfern where Joseph was a fireman on steam engines before becoming a locomotive engine man which he remained until retiring and moving with Ada to Davistown.

Arthur Boxall was the eighth child of Henry Boxall and Emily Chapman. Henry came to Australia in 1851 and in 1852 had an Australian brewer’s license. After marrying, Henry and Emily lived in Orange and then Kelloshiel, one of the first land grants issued west of the Blue Mountains. Henry was in turn a brewer, farmer butcher and miner until the family moved to Temora ca. 1879 where he became the licensee of the Royal Hotel. He was also postmaster at Lower Temora, a business he operated out of the hotel. When Arthur married Jane Letchford in 1890 he was a hotel keeper and they lived in Temora. Later he became a Cobb & Co driver, a carter and then a labourer. They had six children.

During WWI, Phillip Hardge went to England on R.M.S. Corinthic via New Zealand and Rio de Janeiro, where he worked at a munitions factory. In 1924 Phillip married Hilda Boxall in Tempe. They lived in Leeton where Phillip was head engineer at Leeton Cannery for 23 years. They left Leeton in 1942 and Phillip went to Sydney to find a new home while Hilda went to relatives in Temora then Davistown before they settled in Bexley North in early 1943. Phillip worked as Manager of the Sydney office Melbourne food machinery producer Binghams. Prior to marriage, Hilda worked as a schoolteacher.

Kate Savage is the granddaughter of Ada and Joseph Hardge and Jane and Arthur Boxall, and the daughter of Phillip Hardge and Hilda Boxall.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

Kate Savage is the granddaughter of Ada and Joseph Hardge, and Jane and Arthur Boxall.

Comprises 12 photographic portraits of several generations of the Hardge and Boxall families from Sydney.

1. Group portrait of Ada (1870-1950) and Joseph Hardge (1869-1938) (seated) and their six children. Back row: Grace, Joseph, Ellen, Ralph, Phillip. Neville in between his parents, ca. 1914-1916 / Lemaire Studios, Newtown. Palladium print (14.5 cm x 20.2 cm) with photographer’s stamp on mount encased in folder (27.5 cm x 30 cm)

2. Wedding portrait of Phillip Hardge (1893-1962) and Hilda Boxall (1900-1978) with groomsmen Ralph Hardge, Herbert Boxall and flower girl Nellie Boxall, 24 April 1924 / Lemaire Studios, Newtown. Palladium print (13.8 cm x 19.8 cm) on mount encased on folder (27.5 cm x 30 cm)

3. Portrait of Phillip Hardge (1893-1962), 21 January 1922 / Lemaire Studios, Newtown. Gelatin print (14.2 cm x 8.8 cm) on mount (22.7 x 15.2 cm) with photographer’s stamp

4. Portrait of Phillip Hardge (1893-1962), 1894 / Jays Portrait Studios. Hand coloured gelatin print (13.6 cm x 9.8 cm) on mount (16.4 cm x 10.6 cm) with photographer’s blind stamp

5. Group portrait of three men including Joseph Hardge (1869-1938) and two small boys, Burwood backyard, late 1890s. Gelatin print (9.7 cm x 14.9 cm) on mount (10.7 cm x 16.5 cm)

6. Portrait of Kathleen Hardge (Kate Savage) 12 months old, ca. 1930 / Lemaire Studios, Newtown. Hand coloured gelatin print (19.7 cm x 12.2 cm) with photographer’s signature on mount encased in folder (20.8 cm x 13.0 cm) with photographer’s stamp

7. Portrait of Emily Boxall (1827-1890), great grandmother of Kate Savage, ca. 1885. Hand coloured gelatin print (32.0 cm x 26.7) on mount (33.0 x 28.0 cm)

8. Portrait of Jane Letchford II (1869-1935), ca. 1890 / by G. H. Nicholas. Gelatin cabinet card (13.6 cm x 10.3 cm) on mount (16.6 cm x 10.8 cm) with photographer’s stamp on verso

9. Portrait of Emily Jane Boxall (1891-1923), aunt of Kate Savage, ca 1893-1895 / F. Bannatyne Studio, Wagga Wagga. Gelatin cabinet card (13.1 cm x 10.1 cm) on mount (13.9 x 10.7 cm) with photographer’s label on verso

10. Portrait of Arthur Randall Boxall (1866-1934), ca. 1890 / Tuttle & Co. Gelatin cabinet card (14.5 cm x 9.9 cm) on mount (16.3 cm x 10.8 cm) with photographer’s stamp

11. Portrait of Arthur Randall Boxall (1866-1934) and [possibly] brother (b. 1870), ca. 1890-1900 / G. H. Nicholas. Gelatin cabinet card (13.6 cm x 10.2 cm) on mount (16.6 cm x 10.8 cm) with photographer’s stamp

12. Group portrait of Arthur (1866-1934) and Jane Boxall (1869-1935) and daughter Hilda (1900-1978), ca. 1900-1910 / G. H. Nicholas. Gelatin cabinet card (13.7 cm x 10.1 cm) on gold-edged mount (16.4 cm x 10.5 cm) with photographer’s stamp

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Titles and dates devised by cataloguer from information supplied by donor.

Photographs have inscriptions on reverse detailing subjects and some dates.

Some mounts and folders are damaged