Henrietta D. Clark photograph albums

Series 1: Photograph albums

Series number
1
Series title
Photograph albums
Author / Creator
Clark, Henrietta Duncan
Description
5 photograph albums
Locate
OMBOX Box 9178

Items in this series:

‘Post card series'. (1915-1917)

Unit ID
34612/1
Item title
‘Post card series'.
Date
1915-1917
Scope and content

The cover of this album has the text: ‘Post card series. 1915-1917. Camera of H.D.C.’ It contains 57 photographs, including:

  • 17 photographs of the Clark family home and property at Goodwood Street, Hendra,
  • 25 photographs of Lesley and Henry Lovf (Love) and their young son Theo (Theodore),
  • 6 photographs of Greenmount, Coolangatta and Point Danger, 
  • 2 photographs of a plaster cast of bust made by Daphne Mayo (possibly of Henry Lovf), and
  • 2 photographs of man in costume for the Art Society dance.

There is a note on the back page of the album that reads: 'Replaces an earlier album. Printed March 1957.'

Description
1 photograph album

'General Series. Post Card Enlargements. Album 1'. (1918–1927)

Unit ID
34612/2
Item title
'General Series. Post Card Enlargements. Album 1'.
Date
1918–1927
Scope and content

The cover of this album has the text:  'General Series. Post Card Enlargements. Album 1'.  It contains 54 photographs, including:

  • clouds at sunset,
  • flowers in vases,
  • coastal scenes (e.g. Cabbage Tree Creek, Sandgate),
  • Mt Coot-tha,
  • Brisbane River,
  • S.S. Arendskerk passing Newstead Park,
  • Figurehead of the 'Cambus Wallace' outside the Railway Hotel in Southport,
  • Aeroplane at Doomben,
  • Toowoomba (St Luke’s Glasshouse at City Gardens, quarry),
  • Cranes used in the construction of Brisbane City Hall,
  • Fire brigade at Ann Street,
  • Bark House at Southport,
  • Elephant Rock at Currumbin,
  • Eatons Crossing,
  • Customs House,
  • Fountain at the corner of Queen and Eagle Streets,
  • 7 photographs of the construction and opening of Methodist Church, Hendra, and
  • Duke of York visit in 1927, and more.

There is a note on the back page of the album that reads: 26 March 1958

Description
1 photograph album

'General Series. Post Card Enlargements. Album 3'. (1929-1931?)

Unit ID
34612/3
Item title
'General Series. Post Card Enlargements. Album 3'.
Date
1929-1931?
Scope and content

The cover of this album has the text: ‘General Series. Post Card Enlargements. Album 3.’ It contains 54 photographs, including:

  • construction of Grey St Bridge,
  • details of buildings e.g. AMP building, Central Station, Parliament House,
  • interior views of the Art Gallery in the Executive Building,
  • aerial views of Bulimba and Brisbane,
  • Newstead Park,
  • Methodist Church in Graceville,
  • small train at the Exhibition,
  • Windsor Council building,
  • The Mansions in Brisbane,
  • Masonic Temple in Ann Street, Brisbane,
  • Quaker Meeting House in North Quay,
  • a float in a university procession,
  • maypole dance  pole in Hendra,
  • Montville,
  • bathers at Sutton Beach,
  • Currumbin, northern New South Wales and more.

There is a note on the back page of the album that reads: '31 March 1958.'

Description
1 photograph album

'General Series. Post Card Enlargements. Album 5'. (1935–1939?)

Unit ID
34612/4
Item title
'General Series. Post Card Enlargements. Album 5'.
Date
1935–1939?
Scope and content

The cover of this album has the text: ‘General Series. Post Card Enlargements. Album 5.’ It contains 59 photographs, including:

  • Brisbane Botanic Gardens,
  • Greek Orthodox Church in Charlotte Street,
  • Old St Stephen’s Church in Elizabeth St.,
  • Story Bridge under construction,
  • Anglican Church, Mundoolun,
  • RSL Hall Wynnum,
  • Waltons Bridge at Waterworks Road,
  • residence of Mr Saint at Coolum,
  • motor buggy at Nundah celebrations,
  • Kedron Lodge in Kalinga,
  • Congregational Church in West End,
  • Oxley memorial stone,
  • details of City buildings including the Daphne Mayo sandstone wall at Anzac Square,
  • dinosaur skeleton at Queensland Museum,
  • Mount Warning and other views of northern New South Wales, and 
  • a shingle roof hut at Binnaburra.

 

 

 

 

Description
1 photograph album

'General Series. Post Card Enlargements. Album 7' (1951-1953)

Unit ID
34612/5
Item title
'General Series. Post Card Enlargements. Album 7'
Date
1951-1953
Scope and content

The cover of this album has the text: ‘General Series. Post Card Enlargements. Album 7.’ It contains 55 photographs, including:

  • Mount Beerwah and Coonowrin,
  • Mount Ngungun (including the cave),
  • home of Mrs C. Burgess (Bankfoot House in the Glass House Mountains),
  • Forestry Lookout,
  • Barron River,
  • Robbs monument,
  • details of buildings in Brisbane city,
  • 1952 Ekka,
  • Panorama to the southeast from the top of Florence Street, Camp Hill,
  • 'Maroochy', a home at Clayfield,
  • Anzac Square,
  • Fete at Scouts Hall, Clayfield,
  • St Pauls Lutheran church at Nundah, and more.

It is possible some of these photographs were taken on the Empire Day weekend in May 1912, when Henrietta Clark, her sister Lesley Jane, their brother-in-law George Rowley and friend Willie Fraser rode their bicycles from Brisbane to stay with friends at Bankfoot House, and spent the weekend climbing Mt Tibrogargan and Mt Coonowrin before riding home.

 

Description
1 photograph album
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