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SMALL PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, HAND SKETCHES, MA KNIGHT, c1900

c. 1900
Overview

Wallet sise khaki coloured fabric covered photograph album with blank pages included for miniature sketches. Sketches & drawings on end papers and twenty three inside pages intact. Used 1900 to 1911. Front end paper has drawings of sprigs of Boronia flowers and the name 'M. A. Knight The Rocks Albany'. Back end paper has 'Tues' Birthday May 22nd'

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-51-B1989.527
Item type
Books
Inscriptions and markings

End Paper transcript "Etelma, was home of John Fredrick Knight who named the property for his three children by using the first two letters of their names."

EThel |
Elis |= "Etelma"
MArjorie

Keywords
Books
Albums
Sketch Book
Year
c. 1900
Statement of significance

Local family album and sketch book.

Last modified
Tuesday, 14 October, 2025
Completeness
83
Albany Historical Society Inc

Albany Historical Society Inc

Album Cover
Album Cover.
Front end paper.
Front-end paper, coloured rendering of two sprigs of Boronia. Brown Boronia x Kalgan Boronia.
Kalgan River.
Pencil sketch Hay River c1900.
Pencil sketch.
Pencil sketch, ship and dingy Albany Harbour c1900.
Pencil sketch.
Pencil sketch two portraits.
Photo
Album photo P1995.181.
End pages.
End pages with inscription.
Back end page sprigs of Boronia . Boronia megastigma x Boronia heterophylla
Back end-page coloured drawing Boronia megastigma x Boronia heterophylla.
End-page back inside cover.
End-page, back inside cover.

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