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Albany Historical Society Inc > Records

SMALL PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, HAND SKETCHES, MA KNIGHT, c1900

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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'

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Registration number

cwa-org-51-B1989.527

Item type

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

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Statement of significance

Local family album and sketch book.

Last modified

Tuesday, 14 October, 2025

Completeness

83

Albany Historical Society Inc

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