Album of early 20th-century photographs of Australian life.
59 pages of mounted photographs captioned in white ink, varying numbers to a page, in red cloth album, c.1912-1914.
The photographs are a record of a few years in the life of a family of English settlers in New South Wales. Whilst there are photographs of the surrounding countryside (such as the Wannon Falls), this is principally a family album. In fact it is striking how much of the album could be taken in Surrey or Yorkshire. There are pictures of two main properties - Clondrisse and Murndal - and photographs show hints of farming life (such as 'Agnes and Herbert rejoicing after The Drought 1912'), but generally it is free time and relaxation with boat trips, picnics and afternoons in the garden with Sir John Fuller. The album is not a showcase of indigenous Australia of the period, but rather of the facility for British colonists to recreate the life of the Mother Country wherever they found themselves.