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Print
9669491
  • Title
    Louisa Jessie Duprez wedding photograph of unidentified male and female
  • Creator
  • Call number
    P1/2380
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    probably 1900s
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    9669491
  • Physical Description
    1 photographic print - 14 x 9 cm (postcard format) - silver gelatin
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Louisa Jessie Duprez (1876-1935) was the daughter of Adolphe Prosper Duprez and Louisa nee Offord, who settled at Bowral, New South Wales to set up Bowral Bakery, 1868. Duprez was President of the Bowral Methodist Junior Christian Endeavour Society and Secretary of various local associations including, Bowral's Annual Industrial Exhibition and Summer Fair, British and Foreign Bible Society, tennis clubs and others.

    She took photographs for various events including, wedding of Selina James, August 1906; Bowral YWCA Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 1909; 20th anniversary of Bowral YWCA, Woollahra Congregational Church Jubilee, 1909, and others. Duprez left Bowral following the death of her mother in 1915 and moved to Northbridge, Sydney, New South Wales.

    Reference:
    Library correspondence files
    The Sydney Morning Herald. NSW: 1935, 9 November. "Family Notices". Accessed 21 December 2022. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17227861
  • Scope and Content
    Photographic postcard of female in wedding gown and veil holding a bouquet of flowers and male dressed in clergy attire, posing in a garden.
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright:
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Description source

    Title devised by cataloguer
  • General note

    Light corner bend and bruising
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Printed on verso: "Miss Duprez. Photo, Bowral"
  • Date note

    Duprez was an active photographer between 1906-1910
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