Series 1: Photographs and drawings mainly relating to Sir Philip Sydney Jones and George Sydney Jones

PXD 1567

series

approximately 1856-1970s

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings, Ephemera

9664571

2 albums (302 photographs)
55 photographic prints
1 sketchbook (25 drawings)
1 album (65 prints) - lithographs, engravings

5 boxes of photographs and 1 box of drawings and prints relating to the Jones family.

PHOTOGRAPHS

BOX 1
1 album (92 photographs), green leather binding. George Sydney Jones' family photograph album with his signature on the front page. Contains family photographs, including George's father, Sir Philip Sydney Jones; Barncleuth", the home George built in 1910, now a heritage listed building at 17 The Crescent, Pennant Hills; and tourism photographs including Tasmania, Sydney region, Terrigal and Kiama.

BOX 2
1 album (210 photographs), approximately 1900 to 1945. Appears to have first belonged to George Sydney Jones and then added to and annotated by his youngest daughter Joan Sydney Jones. The album includes photographs of Sir Philip and his house "Llandillo" in Sydney; George and Isabelle Sydney Jones and their children, Joyce, Bronwen and Joan, at their home in Pennant Hills; John Rider Jones and Mrs Rider Jones (née Wolfe), many at his historic home of ‘Clifton’, Hunters Hill; holiday photos at Torys Hotel Kiama, the Rectory at Nowra, Cronulla beach, Terrigal Lake, Wentworth Falls, Teebah and around Cairns in Queensland, Fiji, Kosciuszko, Jenolan Caves, and Tasmania, including Port Arthur; 'Meriden' Anglican girls’ school in Strathfield around 1916-1929; the Taylors performing 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' at the House in Pymble built by Joyce Sydney Jones' architect husband William David Howe Baxter; Bonnie Brae convalescent hospital at Wahroonga, including WWII servicemen patients and nurses, and Joan Sydney Jones, sometimes in her Red Cross uniform.

24 loose photographs previously housed in the album including a copy print of David Jones, the merchant; Isabelle Sydney Jones and Hettee/Stella? Roxborough; Joan Sydney Jones leading the Lindfield Red Cross on a march through Sydney, approximately 1940; and Patricia, Gerald and Kathleen Baxter; approximately, 1940s-1970s. Also includes souvenir booklet featuring Coffs Harbour.

BOX 3
1. Photographic portrait of George Sydney Jones, [1915]. Pencil inscription on verso, ‘George Sydney Jones (Architect)’. On card mount, 28 x 21 cm.
2. Photographic portrait of George Sydney Jones, 1915. On card mount, 31 x 28 cm.
3. Photograph of a sketch of George Sydney Jones by Norman Carter, 1921. On card mount, 20 x 15 cm.
4. Photograph of Sir Philip Sydney Jones with George Sydney Jones holding his first daughter Joyce Sydney Jones [mother of Kathleen Baxter], 1902. Pencil annotation on reverse. On card mount, 29 x 22 cm.
5. Photograph of Sir Philip Sydney Jones holding his granddaughter Joyce Sydney Jones, aged about 2, 1902. Pencil annotation on reverse. On card mount, 29 x 22 cm.
6. Photograph of Richard Jones [father of John Rider Jones], Pencil annotation on mount: ‘Great Grandfather’. In card folder, mount 21 x 16 cm.
7. Photographic portrait of George Sydney Jones with his wife Isabelle May and two children, Joyce and Bronwen. On card mount, 23 x 18 cm.
8. Photograph of unidentified man, possibly one of the two sons of John Rider Jones, by The Swiss Studio, Sydney. Platinotype, on card mount, 23 x 17 cm.
9. Photograph of group including George Sydney Jones, Isabelle May Jones, and John Rider Jones and his wife. Probably on the.lawns of ‘Clifton’, Hunters Hill [built 1880]. 28 x 10 cm.
10. Photograph of Isabelle May Jones, wife of George Sydney Jones. On card mount, 24 x17 cm.
11. Photograph of a model of a domestic house, with a pencil note on the back saying it won a first prize for George Sydney Jones. In card folder, 32 x 23 cm.
12. Copy photograph of George Sydney Jones at the laying of the foundation stone at the head office of the Benevolent Society of NSW, 9 September 1903 [designed by George Sydney Jones]. Pen annotation on reverse. 17 x11 cm.
13. Photographic portrait of George Sydney Jones, Pencil inscription on front 'about 1895'. 17 x 11 cm.
14. Photographic portrait of Isabelle May Jones. Pencil inscription on front 'about 1895'. 17 x11 cm.
15. Photograph of George Rider Jones and a women seated with two girls, probably his granddaughters, Joyce and Bronwen, [approximately 1905]. On card mount, 25 x 18 cm.
16. Photographic portrait of George Sydney Jones, [previously housed together with photograph of Isabelle May Jones]. 19 x 14 cm.
17. Isabelle May Jones. [Previously housed together with photograph of George Sydney Jones]. 18 x 14 cm.
18. Photographic portrait of Joyce Sydney Jones, in card frame, 21 x 16 cm.

BOX 4
1. Sir Philip Sydney Jones, aged 82, at his home Llandrilo Strathfield, April 15th 1918, photographs by G. Sydney Jones. Pair of photographs mounted together. Title and photographer from pencil inscription on the reverse. Card mount, 28 x 40 cm.
2. Photograph of [John] Rider Jones. Pencil annotation on reverse ‘Grandfather Rider Jones’. On card mount, 31 x 26 cm.
3. Photographic portrait of George Sydney Jones, facing right, in brown folder 37 x 24 cm.
4. Photographic portrait of Sir Philip Sydney Jones, 1908. Pencil inscription on reverse. On card mount, 33 x 26 cm.
5. Photographic portrait of Sir Philip Sydney Jones seated in academic robes. On card mount, 31 x 24 cm.
6. Photograph of George Sydney Jones and John Rider Jones and their families at ‘Clifton’, Hunters Hill, overlooking Parramatta River, [approximately 1908]. On card mount, 20 x 38 cm.
7. Photograph of George Sydney Jones and John Rider Jones and their families at ‘Clifton’, Hunters Hill, overlooking Parramatta River, [approximately 1908]. On card mount, 20 x 38 cm.
8. Photograph of six children related to George Sydney Jones and John Rider Jones at ‘Clifton’, Hunters Hill, overlooking Parramatta River, [approximately 1908]. On card mount, 20 x 38 cm.
9. Photographic portrait of Joan Sydney Jones, George Sydney's youngest daughter. In card folder, 36 x 24 cm.

BOX 5
1. Photographic portrait of George Sydney Jones, hand-coloured, on card mount, 49 x 29 cm
2. Photograph of Lindfield Red Cross Aust Company. Joan Sydney Jones at front as 'Superintendant'. On card mount, 33 x 35 cm.
3. Photograph of Mrs Sydney Jones [Isabelle May Jones]. Hand-coloured, on card mount, 40 x 33 cm
4. George Sydney Jones’ cardboard folder [previously held drawings], 48 x 37 cm

DRAWINGS AND PRINTS

BOX 6
1. Pencil sketch on board of trees and track, by Norman Carter. Artist’s signature in pencil, lower left. 18 x 21 cm.
2. 1 sketchbook (25 drawings). Includes pencil inscription on front page, ‘George Sydney Jones’. Contains pencil sketches and watercolours of places including Provence, Venice, London (1890), Rome (1890), and the Red Sea (1891); portraits of family members; architectural notes and sketches. 13 x 18 cm.
3. 1 album (65 prints, sepia lithographs, engravings). Includes pencil inscription on front page, ‘P. Sydney Jones M.D. 1856 - afterwards his son G Sydney Jones’. Contains 10 tinted lithographs from the 2-part series of 12 lithographs entitled "Scenery in and around Sydney" produced by S.T. Gill in 1856, as well as many other British and European (mainly German and Belgian) scenes. 28 x 23 cm.

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