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Date(s)
- ca. 1927-ca. 1930 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
12 p. ; 33 cm.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Gwen Spurgin attended the University of Queensland in the 1920s. While a student she played sport and won a Blues Award for hockey. In 1934 she married Robert Joseph Henry Risson, who graduated from the University of Queensland in 1923 with a Bachelor of Engineering.
Repository
Archival history
Previously catalogued as: Album
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Six loose leaf double-sided pages of black and white photographs from an album once belonging to Gwendolyn Edith Millicent Risson (née Spurgin). The photographs include university excursions, possibly at Townsville, Palm Island and Tweed Heads, and at least one with Dorothy Hill. There are also some photographs of current events, including the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York in 1927, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge under construction.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Pre-1955 photographs: copyright expired.
Language of material
- English
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Note
This item contains culturally sensitive depictions of Indigenous people.
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Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Spurgin, Gwendolyn E. M. (Subject)
- Hill, Dorothy, 1907-1997 (Subject)
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Status
Revised
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Linda Justo, 6-Dec-2022. Revised, SJB, 22-Nov-2022.
Revised, Linda Justo, 10-Jul-2021. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.