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Isobel Bowden's floral diaries and Bowden family photographs, ca. 1865-1984

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    Isobel Bowden's floral diaries and Bowden family photographs, ca. 1865-1984

    Call numbers

    PXA 1647 , PXD 1272

    Record identifier

    YEGmlyyn

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    https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YEGmlyyn

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    Isobel Bowden's floral diaries and Bowden family photographs, ca. 1865-1984

    Full title

    Isobel Bowden's floral diaries and Bowden family photographs, ca. 1865-1984

    Author / Creator

    Bowden family

    Date

    ca. 1865-1984

    Call Numbers

    PXA 1647 , PXD 1272

    Record Identifier

    YEGmlyyn

    Formats

    Pictures, Photographs, Watercolours, Manuscripts, Manuscript Maps and Ephemera

    — Physical Description

    Contents

    24 sketchbooks (containing watercolours) - 27 x 37 cm. or smaller

    588 photographic prints - 24 x 19 cm. or smaller - col., black and white

    1 volume of textual material

    1 album (12 photographic prints) - 8 x 13 cm.

    5 maps - 32 x 22 cm. or smaller - manuscript

    — Other Descriptions

    Level of description

    Fonds

    Access and use

    Copying Conditions

    Copyright status : In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years

    Copyright status : In copyright - Life of photographer plus 70 years

    Terms of use

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    Subjects

    Subjects and topics

    Blue Mountains (N.S.W. : Mountains) Endrim (Parramatta, N.S.W.) Parramatta (N.S.W.) Newington College (Stanmore, N.S.W.) Beecroft (N.S.W.) St. John's Church (Parramatta, N.S.W.) Manly Beach (N.S.W.) Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.) Katoomba (N.S.W.) Wentworth Falls (N.S.W.) Richmond Aerodrome (N.S.W.) interiors botanical illustrations families groups (people) houses plants Aboriginal artefacts mountains floods creeks waterfalls watercolours flowers wild flowers native plants bush bushfires portraits sketches golf courses stone houses rectories erosion burning-off private schools wedding receptions wedding cakes weddings brides bridegrooms Christmas parties landslides shale mines postcards beaches ministers (government) naval officers Japanese mail planes air races aeroplanes Botanical illustration--Australia. Nature conservation--New South Wales--Blue Mountains Region--Pictorial works. Photograph albums. Photography of families. Portrait photography. Adult Females Adult Males children boys girls Bowden family Bowden, Isobel Kendall, 1908-1986 Murphy family

    More information

    — SCOPE AND CONTENTS

    Contents

    PXA 1647
    Box 1
    12 numbered floral diaries dated 22 August 1961-19 February 1974. Diaries contain water colours of native flowers and plants with loose manuscript notes by Isobel Bowden

    Box 2
    Contains a further 9 numbered floral diaries dated 5 February 1974-1981 along with 3 other unnumbered and undated floral diaries and a volume i...

    — ALTERNATIVE TITLES

    Full title

    Isobel Bowden's floral diaries and Bowden family photographs, ca. 1865-1984

    — AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

    Author / Creator

    Author / Artists

    — NOTES

    General note

    Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.5763 as part of the eRecords Project 2012-13

    Signature / Inscriptions

    Many photographs captioned by donor

    — CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION

    Source

    Presented by Isobel Bowden, 21 November 1984
    Pic.Acc.5763

    Administrative / Biographical history

    Isobel Kendall Bowden, conservationist, teacher and author, was born at Woodford, NSW, in 1908, second daughter of Federal Parliamentarian and Minister for Defence, Eric Kendall Bowden, and his wife Reinette, nee Murphy. Miss Bowden spent most of her life in the Blue Mountains where she developed an abiding interest in local and natural history and...

    Identifiers

    — PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS

    Call Numbers

    PXA 1647 , PXD 1272

    Record Identifier

    YEGmlyyn

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    https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YEGmlyyn

    — OTHER IDENTIFIERS

    Reference code

    412081

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