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- 1896-1928 (Creation)
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1 parcel
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Mary Montgomerie Christison was born on 8 July 1881 in London. She was the eldest daughter of Mr Robert Christison (1837-1915), explorer, pioneer and owner of Lammermoor, North Queensland, and his wife Mary Christison (nee Godsall), photographer. She married Charles Douglas Bennett in 1914. She was the compiler of Christison of Lammermoor and author of various works on the Yirandali people.
Name of creator
Biographical history
Photographer. Married Robert Christison of Lammermoor, North Queensland in 1880. She was his second wife. They had a son and two daughters, the elder of whom was Mary Montgomerie (Mimi) Bennett.
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Presented to the University by Mrs M M Bennett, 1929.
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Scope and content
Twenty one (21) glass plate negatives created by Mary Christison:
- ‘Mattamundukka waterhole at the Lammermoor Homestead’, published in Bennett, Mary M., ‘Records’, Vol 1, p70
- ‘Mattemundukka on Tower Hill Creek’
- ‘Lammermoor Homestead’
- ‘Royal Wilton Stud cows’
- ‘My last muster’
- ‘Robert Christison in 1857’
- Notes of race on back of photograph of R Christison
- ‘R Christison, 1912’
- ‘R Christison, 1877’ [damaged]
- ‘Tommy’, full portrait of a young child taken in 1898
- ‘Tommy’, in European dress in garden taken in 1898
- ‘Warmbunny’ taken in 1898
- ‘Charley’, portrait taken in 1898
- ‘Kyra’, portrait taken in 1898
- ‘Kyra’, portrait taken in 1898
- ‘Ko Bro’, portrait taken in 1896
- ‘Topsy’, portrait taken in 1898
- ‘Ko Bro’, portrait taken in 1898
- ‘Ko Bro’ portrait taken in 1896
- ‘Wyma’, portrait taken in 1898
- ‘Ko Bro, Wyma and friends’.
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Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Out of copyright. Able to be reproduced without permission. Please attribute the Fryer Library.
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- English
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Existence and location of copies
Prints of negatives and copies of photographs are pasted into volume 1 in Series A.
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Note
Parcel 1
Note
Previously housed in Box 2 Packets 1 and 2
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Accompanying notes compiled by Mrs Bennett are in Parcel 2.
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Revised
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Linda Justo, 27-Sep-2023. Revised, Linda Justo, 28-May-2021. Converted from PDF findig aid, Amanda Main, 30-Aug-2019.