• Title
  Photographic portraits of Sir William Dixson including views of family residences, ca. 1875-1935
• Call number
  DL PX 183
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1875-1935
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  954696
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  8 photographic prints
  
• Scope and Content
  1. [Residence, possibly Shaw family residence at Raymond Terrace, ca. 1875-1880].
  Albumen print, 17 x 21.5 cm.
  “Emma one of these” in pencil on reverse.
  Emma Elizabeth Dixson nee Shaw (1844-1922), mother of Sir Willam Dixson.
  
  2. Hugh and William Dixson, 1880 / studio portrait by B.C. Boake, 458 George St. Sydney.
  Albumen print mounted on card, 16.4 x 10.8 cm.
  “To dear Papa / Xmas 1880” “Hugh 121/2” “William 103/4” in ink on reverse.
  Photographer's stamp on reverse.
  
  3-4. [William Dixson, ca. 1889-1896] / studio portraits by G. Mackenzie Jr., Bridge of Weir [Scotland].
  2 albumen prints mounted on card, 10.4 x 6.3 cm and 16.5 x 10.7 cm.
  Untitled, undated.
  Dated from the period when William Dixson travelled to Scotland to train and qualify as an engineer.
  
  5. [Residence, probably Abergeldie, Summer Hill, William Dixson's childhood home, ca. 1890s].
  Photographic print, 15.1 x 10.6 cm.
  Undated.
  “From inside 69/2916” in pencil on reverse.
  
  6-7. [William Dixson, 1904] / studio portraits by Freeman Co., Sydney.
  2 photographic prints mounted on card, 22.6 x 16.7 cm.
  Untitled, undated.
  Dated October 1904 from entry for Mr W. Dixson in `Freeman Cabinet Register 1880-1919, D-H’ (PXA 325). Original negatives (3) "56368-9-10" not held in the Mitchell Library Freeman negatives collection.
  A third photographic print from this sequence is located at DL Pd 780 [Portrait of Sir William Dixson, 1904 / Freeman & Co.].
  
  8. [Group portrait including Sir William Dixson, ca. 1925-1935].
  Snapshot, 7.8 x 10.3 cm.
  “The figure holding hat in hand is Sir William Dixson” in pencil on reverse.
• System of arrangement
  Chronological
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.
• General note
  
  All items transferred from DLADD 344, January 2013
  
  No.1 transferred from DLSPENCER 349 to DLADD 344 (transfer date unknown)
  No.5 transferred "From inside 69/2916" to DLADD 344 (transfer date unknown)
  No.8 transferred from 213 P to DLADD 344 (transfer date unknown)
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1014653
• Name
  Dixson, William, Sir, 1870-1952
  Dixson, Emma Elizabeth, Lady, 1844-1922
  
• Subject
  Dixson Library (N.S.W.)
  Dixson, William, Sir, 1870-1952--Photograph collections.
  boys
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A passion for collecting: Sir William Dixson - State Library of New South Wales (8 April - 11 August, 2013). Applies to: items 2-4; 6-8
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE466365

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