Crown Studios (Sydney, N.S.W.)

Photographic firm located in Sydney, Australia, from 1893 to 1939. (Information from "Australians Behind the Camers," Barrie, 2002).

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Buchanan family album

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).

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Photographs relating to the Linney family

Date: [ca 1895]-[ca 1940]

From: Hodge, Horace Emerton, 1903-1958 :Albums and photographs relating to Merton Hodge and the Linney Family

By: Wickens & Company; Gainsborough Studio; Wherrett & Company; Swiss Studios; Best, W L, active 1906; Billens Studio; Dudgeon, Ellis, 1905-1979

Reference: PAColl-8311-09

Description: Mainly mounted portraits by New Zealand and Australian photographers. For historical information see PAColl-8311-08. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted photographs.