Duryea Family photograph albums

Series 1: Photograph Album (1888-1950)

Series number
1
Series title
Photograph Album
Date
1888-1950
Description
7 albums

Items in this series:

Photograph album (1988-1959?)

Unit ID
29587/1
Item title
Photograph album
Date
1988-1959?
Scope and content

1 large photograph album containing photographs and ephemera relating to the Duryea Family and the Brisbane Sidney Riley Studio. The photographs include family portraits, social outings, studio images, historical family photographs, landscapes and depictions of significant occasions. The album includes photographs from Brisbane, in particular Newmarket and Toowong; Sunshine Coast including Noosa, Coolum, Maroochydore, Caloundra; Gold Coast including Coolangatta; interstate locations including Adelaide, Pemberton, W.A., Sydney, Tasmania. Among the photographs are images of the Professional Photographers Association of Australia in Melbourne in 1950 feat. Alva Duryea and Sidney Riley; Melbourne amateur regatta, 1914; All Hallow's Convent, Brisbane; Don Bradman; photographs of Alva Duryea in uniform during World War One, photographs of the family home in Toowong.

Author / Creator
Duryea Family
Sydney Riley Studio
Description
1 photograph album
70 cm
Locate
OMOSBOX Box 20277 O/S

Photograph Album (1888-1959?)

Unit ID
29587/2
Item title
Photograph Album
Date
1888-1959?
Scope and content

1 large photograph album containing photographs, clippings and ephemera relating to the Duryea Family and the Brisbane Sidney Riley Studio. The photographs include family portraits, children in costume, social outings, studio images, historical family photographs, landscapes and depictions of significant occasions. The album includes photographs from Brisbane including the family house at Toowong, West End, All Hallow's Convent and Nudgee College; Gold Coast including Currumbin and Burleigh Heads; Tasmania; South Australia; and Blue Mountains and Taronga Park Zoo in N.S.W. in 1921. Among the photographs are portraits including Olympic swimmer 'Boy' Charlton, tennis player 'Viv' McGrath and Don Bradman. Other photographs feature Bert Hinkler's plane being paraded through Brisbane streets; Burke's tree at Innamincka; Fermoy Private Hospital in Auchenflower; Professional Photographers Association of Australia conference in Melbourne

Author / Creator
Duryea Family
Sidney Riley Studio
Description
1 photograoh album
70 cm
Locate
OMOSBOX Box 20277 O/S

Photograph Album (1888-1969?)

Unit ID
29587/3
Item title
Photograph Album
Date
1888-1969?
Scope and content

1 large photograph album containing photographs, clippings, greeting cards, postcards and ephemera relating to the Duryea Family and the Brisbane Sidney Riley Studio. The photographs include family portraits, children in costume, social outings, studio images, historical family photographs, landscapes and depictions of significant occasions. The album includes a number of photographs relating to conferences and events of the Professional Photographers Association of Australian and the Professional Photographers Association of Queensland from the 1940s to the 1960s, as well as a certificate certifying that Alva Duryea was elected president of the PPA in 1949 and appointed life honourable member in 1957. The album also includes images of the Duryea family house at Toowong and of South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania. There are also photographs depicting the arrival of HMAS Australia in Sydney; naval officers parading down Queen Street, Brisbane after World War Two; Alva Duryea during World War One

Author / Creator
Duryea Family
Sidney Riley Studio
Description
1 photograph album
70 cm
Locate
OMOSBOX Box 20278 O/S

Photograph Album (1860?-1975)

Unit ID
29587/4
Item title
Photograph Album
Date
1860?-1975
Scope and content

1 large photograph album containing photographs, clippings, greeting cards, postcards and ephemera relating to the Duryea Family and the Brisbane Sidney Riley Studio. The photographs include family portraits, social outings, studio images, historical family photographs, holiday photographs and depictions of significant occasions. The album includes early family carte de visite portraits from the Adelaide Duryea studio as well as an image of the Duryea house in New York.

Author / Creator
Duryea Family
Sidney Riley Studio
Description
1 album
70 cm
Locate
OMOSBOX Box 20278 O/S

Photograph Album (1945?-1950)

Unit ID
29587/5
Item title
Photograph Album
Date
1945?-1950
Scope and content

1 photograph album containing photographs relating to John Townsend Duryea and the Duryea Family. The album contains photographs of social outings, holidays and interstate trips. Included are Mt. Tamborine, Point Lookout, Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne

Description
1 photograph album
40 cm
Locate
OMOSBOX Box 20279 O/S

Photograph Album (1930-1942)

Unit ID
29587/6
Item title
Photograph Album
Date
1930-1942
Scope and content

1 photograph album mostly containing photographs of John Townsend Duryea. The inside cover displays his name and date of birth. The album documents John's life from the age of 4 months up to his attendance at St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, Brisbane. Many of the photographs are of him in costume. Many are also hand coloured. The album also contains photographs of other members of the Duryea Family.

Author / Creator
Duryea Family
Sidney Riley Studios
Description
1 photograph album
40 cm
Locate
OMOSBOX Box 20279 O/S

Photograph album (1940?-1947)

Unit ID
29587/7
Item title
Photograph album
Date
1940?-1947
Scope and content

1 photograph album mostly containing photographs of John Townsend Duryea as a young boy and teenager. The album depicts John with friends and other members of the Duryea Family on social outings, beach trips and holidays. The album includes a class photograph from St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, Brisbane.

Author / Creator
Dyrtea Family
Sidney Riley Studio
Description
1 photograph album
40 cm
Locate
OMOSBOX Box 20279 O/S
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Series 2: Photographs (1930-1956)

Series number
2
Series title
Photographs
Date
1930-1956
Author / Creator
Duryea family
Sidney Riley Studio
Description
5 photographs
varying sizes

Items in this series:

Photograph (1930?)

Unit ID
29587/8
Item title
Photograph
Date
1930?
Scope and content

Large framed portrait photograph of a young woman. The portrait has been hand coloured with pastel.

Author / Creator
Dureya Family
Sidney Riley Studio
Description
1 photograph (portrait, in frame)
50 cm
Locate
OMOSBOX Box 15560 O/S

Photograph (1933?)

Unit ID
29587/9
Item title
Photograph
Date
1933?
Scope and content

Framed compilation of hand coloured studio portraits of John Townsend Duryea as a child.

Author / Creator
Dureya Family
Sidney Riley Studio
Description
1 photograph (hand coloured, in frame )
20 cm
Locate
OMOSBOX Box 20279 O/S

Photograph (1933?)

Unit ID
29587/10
Item title
Photograph
Date
1933?
Scope and content

Coloured photographic portrait of John Townsend Duryea as a child with his mother Lilian Margaret Duryea (nee Kellett).

Author / Creator
Dureya Family
Sidney Riley Studio
Description
1 photograph (colour)
Locate
OMOSBOX Box 20277 O/S

Photographic compilation (1956)

Unit ID
29587/11
Item title
Photographic compilation
Date
1956
Scope and content

Original photographic compilation titled 'Four Generations - 116 Years in Photography, 1850-1956' showing portraits of Townsend Duryea Sr., Townsend Duryea Jr., Alva Duryea and John Townsend Duryea.

Author / Creator
Dureya Family
Sidney Riley Studio
Description
1 sheet
Locate
OMOSBOX Box 20277 O/S

Photographic compilation (1952)

Unit ID
29587/12
Item title
Photographic compilation
Date
1952
Scope and content

Reproduced photographic compilation titled 'One Hundred Years of Photography: Four Generations, 1852-1952' showing portraits of Townsend Duryea Sr., Townsend Duryea Jr., Alva Duryea and John Townsend Duryea.

Author / Creator
Duryea Family
Sidney Riley Studio
Description
1 photograph
Locate
OMOSBOX Box 20277 O/S
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Series 3: Certificate (1 August 1949)

Series number
3
Series title
Certificate
Date
1 August 1949
Scope and content

Framed certificate presented to Alva Duryea by the Professional Photographer's Association of Queensland to certify that he was elected to the office of president for the years 1940-41 and 1948-49.

Description
1 certificate (framed)
Locate
OMBOX Box 7151
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Series 4: Negatives (1950-1959?)

Series number
4
Series title
Negatives
Date
1950-1959?
Scope and content

11 negatives containing images of the wedding of John Townsend Duryea and Margaret Julia Kelly

Description
11 negatives
Locate
OMBOX Box 7151
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Series 5: Greeting Cards (1930-1939)

Series number
5
Series title
Greeting Cards
Date
1930-1939
Scope and content

A collection of greeting cards relating to the Duryea Family. Most are personalised greeting cards sent by journalist Joseph Aloysius Alexander during the 1930s. Joseph Aloysius Alexander was the Uncle of John Townsend Duryea's wife Margaret (Kelly). It is likely that these were passed to Margaret from her mother.

Description
1 envelope (greeting cards)
Locate
OMBOX Box 7151
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Series 6: Portfolio (1949)

Series number
6
Series title
Portfolio
Date
1949
Scope and content

Portfolio 'Fifty Masterpieces of Photography by Dr. Julian Smith' published in Melbourne in 1949 by McLaren & Co. The portfolio contains 50 black and white plates of the photography work of pioneering Australian photographer Julian Smith. The portfolio has Alva Duryea's name written on the cover.

Author / Creator
Smith, Julian, 1873-1947
Description
1 portfolio (50 photographs : black and white)
Locate
OMOSBOX Box 10033 O/S
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