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Lesson evaluations

Foolscap notebook printed with lesson evalution checklists. Lesson information has been handwritten in pencil for most of the volume. Dates a few pages are: 15 Aug 1923 and 21 May 1924.

Vida Lahey : artist

Original typescript manuscript of biography of Vida Lahey. The cover has a b&w photograph of Vida Lahey painting with the caption 'Vida Lahey M.B.E.'. This article written for a literary competition of the Society of Women Writers of N.S.W. in 1969. Daphne Mayo wrote it under the pyseudoynm 'Lilian MacArthur' (a combinaton of her first name and the second name of her father, William MacArthur Mayo). It gives an account of Vida Lahey's family history, her artist development, her art, her involvement in encouraging art in Queensland and art for children.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Commission by American Serviceman Captain Robert Carson. Note: looks like photograph of newspaper clipping. Portrait of a man de Bergerac?

Photograph album of construction of Brisbane City Hall

Each photograph has a handwritten caption giving the date. First photograph shows initial stages of construction (February 1925). Final photograph shows completed building (April 1930). Inside cover page contains handwritten inscription : B. Mobsby, 8.11.30, Station Rd., Indooroopilly, Queensland.

Mobsby, Berta (Nelly Alberta Timewell), 1885-1967

Founders of the Australian Academy of Art

Photograph taken by Les Dwyer, Canberra Studios, Manuka of the 11 delegates at the inaugural meeting in Canberra in June 1937 which founded the Australian Academy of Art. Photograph of Daphne Mayo in the front row, with Norman Carter, Sydney Ure Smith, Robert Gordon Menzies (the Federal Attorney-General), Rayner Hoff, and John Eldershaw. In the back row are William Beckwith McInnes, Han Heysen, Robert Henderson Croll, Harold Brocklebank Herbert and William Rowell. All figures identified in pen along lower margin of photograph; photographer's signature lower right margin and studio stamp on verso.

Dwyer, L. J., 1892-1962

Brisbane City Hall tympanum

Photograph of the sandstone tympanum, entitled 'The Progress of Civilization in the State of Queensland', before being installed above the main entrance to Brisbane City Hall.

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