Dawn Swane collection of portraits of ANZAC soldiers, weddings, men, women and children

ON 711

fonds

approximately 1893-1931

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9675862

164 negatives - 21 x 17 cm and smaller - glass
4 photographic prints - 11 x 17 cm and smaller - cabinet card

Dawn Swane was born on 10 April 1933 in Ermington, New South Wales. She trained as a ballet dancer at the Sadler's Wells School (now the Royal Ballet School) in London and toured extensively through Europe. From 1958, she began working in television make up for ABC TV in Australia and Granada in London, and, in 1966, established her own make up school, the 3 Arts Make-Up Centre, in Sydney. Whilst in Denmark in the 1950s, she had bought a movie camera and captured many moments from her career and the artists she encountered. She died in Neutral Bay, New South Wales on 13 October 2020.

Source:
National Film and Sound Archives. "Dawn Swane". Accessed 6 November 2023. https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/dawn-swanes-home-movies

By descent from the donor's mother, Dawn Swane.

164 glass plate negatives and 4 photographic prints of studio portraits by the Eden Society Studio, the Midget Co. and Alpha Studios of ANZAC soldiers (First World War / WWI), weddings, men, women and children taken between approximately 1893 and 1931.

BOX 1
16 plates of weddings in the 1920s

BOX 2
17 plates of weddings in the 1920s

BOX 3
16 plates of weddings and portraits of women in the 1920s, one image of a living room in 1926 and one image of an advertisement display for the Cole's Book Arcade's lending libraries in Melbourne.

BOX 4
19 plates of portraits of women and children, some with dates between the late 1910s to late 1920s.

BOX 5
8 plates of individual and group portraits of men, First World War ANZAC soldiers and nurses. 4 photographic prints in cabinet card format by the Midget Co. studio and the Eden Society Studios depicting portraits of a man and several women.

BOX 6
21 plates of individual portraits of women and children dated between the 1890s and 1920s, and First World War ANZAC soldiers.

BOX 7
27 plates of individual and group portraits of women, nurses and First World War ANZAC soldiers, some with dates between the 1900s and 1920s.

BOX 8
24 plates of individual and group portraits of children, men and women, some with dates between the 1910s and 1920s.

BOX 9
16 plates of individual portraits of women and men in approximately the 1910s-1920s. One image of a nursing sister.

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

Content List - content-lists.sl.nsw.gov.au/tabular-list/dawn-swane-photographs-anzac-soldiers-weddings-and-portraits-men-women-and-children

Plate depicting lending libraries identified as Cole's Book Arcade.

Source:
The Argus, 27 February 1909. Accessed 30 October 2023. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10713995

Date range based on etchings on glass plates.