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PAPER POUCH FOR PHOTOGRAPHS & NEGATIVES

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Overview

Front is brown paper with green leaf edging. At top is a green square. Inside is the wording Photos & films/of/GRAVES/(Ware graves at Ypres/& elsewhere). Underneath Nr...../M Shanon...../Denholm/ 2 lines in green Ontwikkeling...........3.00 Developpement Beelden..................9.00 Epreuves Postkaarten............................................................................................................ Cartes postales Vergroolingen...................................................................................................... .Agrandissements ............................................................................................................................. Totaal 12.00 Total Inside 2 envelopes Gevaert Platen - Plaques advertising in green on either side of the envelope. Back has green leaf edging inside is a green dotted square with man standing on a box advertising Pellicule Gevaert. On either side of the box are 2 horses with riders. Under this are the words GEVAERT/ROLLFILMS with green surrounds.

Historical information

This set of negatives and photographs are of mainly British war graves and were taken in the 1920s possibly by Leonard Knox for clients who were on one of his tours of the WWI war graves at Ypres Belgium.
Lucy Knox was born in 1927 to Leonard and Berthe (nee Brel, Berthe was born in France) and grew up in the Belgium city of Ypres where her parents ran a hotel and conducted tours of Word War One battle sites and cemeteries, mainly for British tourists. The family moved to England sometime in the mid to late 1940s. In the late 1950s Lucy went on a world trip stopping in Kenya and Perth where where she me Englishman Peter James Denholm, who she married in 1960. The pair settled in Western Australia and started a family. In the 1960s the family spent time farming in the Busselton, Greenhills and Dandaragin areas before settling in the Byford area.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-33-COA2015.56A

Item type

Photographs

Themes

People
Social History
War and Conflict

Material

Paper

Width

150 mm

Height or length

200 mm

Keywords

Statement of significance

This collection of postcards from Lucy Denholm (nee Knox) is representative of the destruction that occurred in Western Europe during World War One. The collection focuses on the Belgium City of Ypres where a number of local residents who were members of the Australian Imperial Force, fought against the German Army.

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Comparative significance criteria

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Rare or representative

Well provenanced

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