E.T. Irving photographs of cricket teams from Mulwala, New South Wales

PXA 7761

fonds

probably between 1899 and 1910

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9661678

2 photographic prints - 26 x 30 cm - albumen silver

Edward Thomas Irving was born on 18 January 1867 in Lancashire, England, arriving in Australia on 15 August 1879. In May 1889, he helped establish the Professional Photographic Society in Sydney, and in September 1890, he commenced a photographic business on High Street, West Maitland. On 21 May 1893, he married Florence Winton Stone (1870-1957), with whom he had four children. By 1898, he had seemingly moved to Victoria, as he was mentioned as a photographer of Tungamah, Victoria, and from 1899 until 1910, his business was listed in Yarrawonga. By 1924, he had returned to New South Wales and was working in Muswellbrook. He requested a dismissal of his marriage to Florence on 6 March 1924 on the grounds of desertion, and was later recorded as having married A. Wiles in around 1914. By 1927, he was located in Taree where he died suddenly on 3 November 1929.

Sources:
Photographers of Maitland. "Irving, E.T." Accessed 2 April 2024. https://www.photographersofmaitland.org/Irving.php

Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896, New South Wales. Accessed 2 April 2024. https://www.ancestrylibrary.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1204/images/IMAUS1787_081449-0374?pId=401200

Sydney Morning Herald. 6 March 1924. Accessed 2 April 2024. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16119355

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales. 6 November 1929. Accessed 2 April 2024. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/173809503

By descent from the Sloane family of Mulwala Station, New South Wales

2 albumen silver photographic prints of cricket teams from Mulwala, New South Wales, posing in front of the Criterion Hotel, Yarrawonga, Victoria, taken by the studio of E.T. Irving sometime between 1899 and 1910.

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

Both photographic prints stamped "Irving" and "Photographer, Yarrawonga" on recto.

Date range based on when E.T. Irving held his photography studio in Yarrawonga, and fashion depicted in the photographs.