Cecily Sewell Photographs and Papers ca. 1880-1988

Collection includes:

• Ten colour slides of Brisbane, mostly city buildings.
• Eleven colour photographs of the Warana parade taken at the corner of Queen Street and North Quay.
• Four 'medallion' portraits.
• One hundred and twenty five photographs in a variety of sizes, mostly black and white, the majority are portraits.
• Box 10277 contains two albums of photographs, the majority portraits. Some of the photographers include- G H Woodelton, Bevan of Edward Street, W Deazeley, Morrison & Clinton, Dorothy Coleman, Mathewson & Co., Poul C Poulsen, Wiley Studio, Lomer, Hutchinson & Co and Chargois & Banger (Normanton) and Tosca of Brisbane.
• Leather bound albums with metal clasps of family portraits, one presented to "Katie" for her birthday on December 6, 1886, by Mrs H.Barltrop, has many images missing. "Katie" is Katie King Sewell (maiden name Winstone).
• Box 16924 O/S: Opaltype portrait of Henry Sewell, born Brampton, Kent in 1852, and came to Australia on the 'Gauntlet', arriving in 1876. He was employed as an Engineer with the Brisbane Municipal Council, married Bertha Magdalena Bestmann. Following Bertha's death he married Katie King (nee Winston). He is buried at Toowong Cemetery.
• Box 10276 includes a studio portrait of Charles Philip Maitland, son of Elizabeth Sewell; wedding photograph of Charles Philip Maitland and his bride Millicent "Millie" Maitland, nee Schubert.

Contract Bridge scorebook including relevant points per trick to be awarded and pencil.

Untitled watercolour signed by T Amies (?)

Certificate of Australian Citizenship granted to Cecily Sewell.

Two certificates awarded to Cecily Butterfield by the National Association of Teachers of Dancing for amateur ballroom dancing tests in December 1943 and July 1945.

Scrap book containing:

• newspaper clippings,
• Christmas cards,
• Birthday cards,
• cutouts,
• World War I leaflets, and
• photographs.

Five items consisting of the following:

• Invitation to the wedding of Katie Markham on 28 December 1892;
• Unsigned hand written will of Henry Sewell dated 1928;
• Letter written by Katie King Sewell, wife of Henry Sewell, to solicitors Holdsworth & Payne in London concerning the estate of Winstone v Winstone. Sewell gives the solicitors full authority to act on her behalf and prove her claim;
• Notes written by Henry Sewell regarding his parents and his wife Katie King Sewell; and
• Notes written about Katie King Sewell (possibly by herself) apparently for a newspaper article.

Aloxite razor hone manufactured by "The Carborundum Company", Niagara Falls, United States of America in original housing.