Lewis Family Photo Album

DESCRIPTION

TitleLewis Family Photo AlbumObject TypeBookDate1850DescriptionLewis family photograph album.

Known photos of Lewis family at Walcha, Henrietta Lewis and great grand father Lawson.

Many sepia photographs are not identified in any way.

Where the subject is identified are as follows -

Great Grandfather Lawson; Deeping House/Leicester House.

Henrietta Lewis.

Lewis Family at Walcha.

F.C. Royal Training College Aberdeen 1878 portraits of numerous people.

Portrait of a sailor with cap noting H.M.S. Nelson and photo of a ship The Volage H.M.S. sailed for the Cape of Good Hope, July 20, 1874.

The title page is illustrated in detail of the period and includes in large print ALBUM. The design is highlighted in the colours pink; green; maroon and cream.

Loose in the album are three unidentified photos, one of a young child and a cut half photo of a church with a cemetery in the foreground.

There is also included one page from a publication titled 'The Church Monthly' dated August 1888 p. 183-184.

One family photo, unidentified on dark green cardboard - Includes seven persons and a cat.

Included in the album is a letter to Master Harry Bush from his grandmother, Marianne Lewis of 'Crich Cottage', Shoalhaven Street, Kiama. Marianne Lewis was Henrietta Lewis' mother. Provenance and SignifcanceHenrietta Lewis married Edward Puttnam while both were working in Fiji. They had a daughter, Alice. Henrietta and Alice returned to Australia to continue her nursing when Edward died just three weeks after Alice's birth.

Henrietta then married Walter Bush in 1906 and they had a son, Harry.

Walter owned hotels in Sydney. After Walter's death, Henrietta purchased land in Shellharbour and built the Ocean Beach Hotel in 1929.DonorCullen, Eileen

CHARACTERISTICS

MaterialThe large volume is bound in leather, brown in colour.

Embossed gold leaf pattern on front cover and raised grapevine design detailed.

There is a brass hinge to the middle of the volume, which is broken away from a locking mechanism. DimensionsPhotograph Album - 29.3cm x 22cm, Letter to Master Harry Bush - 8.5cm x 14.5cm

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CONNECTIONS

CollectionObjectsCullen CollectionFamilyBushLocalityShellharbour VillagePersonBush, Henrietta (nee Lewis)PlaceOcean Beach Hotel

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Lewis Family Photo Album