Freeman & Company

Date: [ca 1850s-1890s]

From: Stratford, Peter, fl 1990-2014: Epsom Trust collection

By: Boyd, Thomas H, active 1879-1884; Carnell, Samuel, 1832-1920; Cobb, Joseph, Edward, 1841?-1911; Cobb, Harriet Sophia, 1846-1929; Creelman & Company; Crown Studios (Sydney, N.S.W.); Freeman & Company; Herrmann, Louisa Marian, 1864-1955; Holm & Company; Ideal Portrait Company; Mason, Frederick W, active 1899-1915; Newman, John Hubert, 1830-1916; W Downe Ross & Company; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-1864

Description: The Epsom Trust collection comprises many different lots of different provenance. This album of unidentified photographic prints relates to John Buchanan (1819-1892) and the Buchanan family of Elsthorpe estate, Napier. Contains studio portraits of John Buchanan and various family members as adults and as children taken during the family's residence in Sydney, Australia, and in New Zealand. Taken by photographers Wrigglesworth and Binns, Wellington, John Hubert Newman, Sydney, Samuel Carnell, Napier, Creelman and Co, Burlington Galleries, Sydney, Holm and Co, Sydney, The Crown Studios, Sydney, Herrmann, Wellington, J E and H Cobb, Napier, The Ideal Portrait Company, Sydney, F W Mason, Napier, and other unidentified photographer(s) circa 1850s to 1890s. - Album also contains 3 loose colour laser print copies of studio portraits of John Buchanan and young men in military uniforms. -Includes portraits of women wearing Victorian jewellery. One woman wears furs and feather hat. Some children are shown in christening gowns and sailor suits, and with pet dog or toys. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (laser prints). Physical Description: Album with golden coloured cover with decorative gilted edges, gilt motifs of a shamrock on spine, has a small brass shield on the front cover and a brass clasp secured with brass nails; linen binding; 23.5 x 20cm Provenance: Purchase, 2014. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Stratford, Peter, 2014-: Epsom Trust collection (MS-Group-2319) (This album is from ET/MISC 046 in the original Epsom Trust collection list).

Date: ca 1860s-1890s

By: Newman, John Hubert, 1830-1916; Freeman & Company

Reference: PAColl-4497

Description: Two cabinet cards of Sir William Manning one taken on the occasion of his 80th birthday on June 20th 1891 and the other on the occasion of the 50th anniversary on November 20th 1882 of this call to the English Bar. Taken by Freeman & Co and J Hubert Newman respectively. Three carte de visite of Lady Manning and Edith and Emily Manning taken full length and wearing crinolines. They are stuck to paper so the photographers cannot be identified. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1885-1890s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Clifford & Morris (Firm); Schourup, Peter, 1837-1887; Freeman & Company; London Portrait Rooms (Dunedin, N.Z.); Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919; Woodville, Richard Caton, 1856-1927

Reference: PA1-q-088

Description: Album of cartes-de-visite of people associated with the Field and Hodgkins families, many identified. Photographers include Burton Brothers, Clifford Morris & Co, P Schourup, the London Portrait Rooms (Dunedin), and Freeman & Company (Sydney). The album contains illustrations of various regiments and uniforms of the British Army and Navy painted by R Caton Woodville. These pages have spaces for photographs to be inserted, and interspersed are plain pages with slots for the images. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with metal clasp, black cover embossed with design of a member of the Royal Horse Guards bearing a standard. Title page entitled `Army & Navy Album. R Caton Woodville [illustrator]'; 35 x 24 cm

Date: [ca 1860s-ca 1880s]

From: Johnston, Henrietta Charlotte, 1814-1878: Photograph albums relating to the Johnston family

By: Bartlett, Robert Henry, 1842-1911; Bassano, Alexander, 1829-1913; Botterill, John, 1817-1881; Brown, Barnes and Bell (Firm); Clarke, William Henshaw, 1831-1910; Davis, William Henry, 1837-1875; Elliott & Fry (Firm); Freeman & Company; Hills & Saunders (Firm); Johnstone, O'Shannessy & Company; London School of Photography; London Stereoscopic Photographic Company; Newman, John Hubert, 1830-1916; Rodgers, Thomas, 1840-1933; Schourup, Peter, 1837-1887; Swan & Wrigglesworth (Firm); Vandyke & Brown (Firm); Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm); Wrigglesworth, James Dacie, 1836-1906

Reference: PA1-q-1185

Description: Album of carte de viste and cabinet card portraits, including animal portraits, taken circa 1860s to circa 1870s by a range of photographers. The caption information appears to have been added at a later date and would appear to include names transcribed from inscriptions on the reverse of some of the mounts. Some attributions are uncertain and other subjects are not identified. Many of the family portraits relate to the Johnston, Inglis, Fitzherbert, and Grace families. Portraits include the following subjects: - Adelina Patti - Italo Campanini - Dame Emma Albani - Dr Morgan Stanislaus Grace Animal portraits include photograph of a light coloured dog, a long-haired dog posed on a chair, and a small dog posed on the lap of a seated person. Landscape photographs include building portraits of historic buildings most likely in the United Kingdom. Photographer and studio imprints include: - Elliott & Fry, 55 Baker Street, Portman Square, W [London]. - Wrigglesworth & Binns, 7 Willis Street, Wellington. - Freeman late Oswald Allen Photo, 360 George Street, Sydney. - P Schourup, Christchurch - Sinclair & Co, 412 & 70 Euston Road, N.W. [London]. - Johnstone, O'Shannessy & Co., 3 Bourke Street, East, Melbourne. - Ross & Thomson, 90 Princes Street, Edinburgh. - R H Bartlett, Auckland. - Emile Bondonneau, 173 Palais Royal, Paris. - Alexander Bassano, 72 Piccadilly, London. - Brown, Barnes & Bell, 31 Bold Street, 34 Castle St., 87 Lord St., Liverpool, and Durham Hall, Bootle. - William H Davis, [Wellington]. - J D Wrigglesworth, Wellington. - T Rodger, St Andrews [Scotland]. - W H Clarke, Lambton Quay, Wellington. - Ferranti, Bold Street, Liverpool. - Vandyke & Brown, 31 Bold Street, 34 Castle St., 87 Lord St., and South Hunter Street, Liverpool. - The London Stereoscopic & Photography Company, 110 & 108 Regent Street & 54 Cheapside, [London]. - James Irons, East Green, Anstruther, Fife. - Hills & Saunders, Cambridge & Oxford. - J Botterill, 19 Collins Street, East, Melbourne. - J H Newman, 12 South Head Road, Hyde Park, Sydney - C T Newcombe, 135 Fenchurch St, E.C. [London] - The London School of Photography, 103 Newgate Street, [London]. - G D Morse, Morse's Palace of Arts, 417 Montgomery St. San Francisco, California. - W Keith, 25 Hardman Street, Liverpool. Also includes printed baptismal certificate with hand colouring, for Eliza Fitzgerald. Quantity: 1 album(s) 73 photographic prints and a loose certificate. Physical Description: Album with ornate printed title page and 25 gilt-edged leaves, bound in embossed leather with gilt detailing and brass clasp, containing 67 cartes de visite, 5 cabinet cards, 1 mounted albumen print, and a baptismal certificate. Provenance: Donor is a descendant of Henrietta and John Johnston of Wellington.

Date: [ca 1875]

From: Selwyn family :Photographs

By: Freeman & Company

Reference: PAColl-9823-1-42

Description: Clara Selwyn photographed by Freeman, Sydney, in about 1875. First wife of Bishop John Richardson Selwyn, second Bishop of Melanesia, and second son of George Augustus Selwyn, first Anglican bishop of New Zealand. She died on Norfolk island in 1877. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 14.3 x 10.3 cm, mounted on card

Date: 1885 - 1886

By: Freeman & Company

Reference: PA3-0076

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1880]

From: Selwyn family :Photographs

By: Freeman & Company

Reference: PAColl-9823-1-19

Description: Portrait of Margaret Elizabeth Selwyn as a child photographed by Freeman (Late Oswald Allen) of Sydney, Australia about 1880. Inscriptions: Verso - Pearl. (M E S). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 9.3 x 6 cm, mounted on card

Date: [ca 1875]

From: Selwyn family :Photographs

By: Freeman & Company

Reference: PAColl-9823-1-43

Description: Clara Selwyn photographed by Freeman, Sydney, in about 1875. First wife of Bishop John Richardson Selwyn, second Bishop of Melanesia, and second son of George Augustus Selwyn, first Anglican bishop of New Zealand. She died on Norfolk island in 1877. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 9.6 x 5.7 cm, mounted on card

Date: [ca 1880]

From: Selwyn family :Photographs

By: Freeman & Company

Reference: PAColl-9823-1-18

Description: Portrait of Margaret Elizabeth Selwyn as a child photographed by Freeman (Late Oswald Allen) of Sydney, Australia about 1880. Inscriptions: Verso - Pearl. (M E S). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 9.3 x 6 cm, mounted on card

Date: [ca 1870s]

From: Selwyn family :Photographs

By: Freeman & Company

Reference: PAColl-9823-1-37

Description: Portrait of Bishop John Richardson Selwyn photographed by Freeman and Company Sydney, Australia, sometime in the 1870s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 14.5 x 10.3 cm, mounted on card

Date: [ca 1885]

From: Selwyn family :Photographs

By: Freeman & Company

Reference: PAColl-9823-1-44

Description: Annie Catherine Selwyn (nee Mort) photographed by Freeman of Sydney, Australia, in about 1885. Second wife of Bishop John Richardson Selwyn. they married in 1885. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 14.7 x 9.7 cm, mounted on card

Date: 1885 - 1886

From: Bradshaw, Muriel Agnes, 1899-1991 :Assorted collection of photographs and carte de visites

By: Freeman & Company

Reference: PA3-0077

Description: This photo was included in the mail salvaged from the wreck of the Wairarapa on the Great Barrier. J I (Information from back of PA3-0077) Inscriptions: Verso - Rosa Lichtscheindt BA Sydney University Oct 16 18? and in pencil and almost faded Late[r] Mr[s] John Innes Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).