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- 1892 (Creation)
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1 glass plate negative : black and white ; 12 x 17 cm.
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Biographical history
Mary Montgomerie Christison was born on 8 July 1881 in London. She was the eldest daughter of Robert Christison (1837-1915), an explorer, pioneer and owner of Lammermoor in North Queensland, and his wife Mary Christison (née Godsall), a photographer. Mary married Charles Douglas Bennett in 1914. She was the compiler of Christison of Lammermoor and author of various works on the Yirandali people.
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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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Photograph of a group photograph of three Aboriginal Australian men standing behind three seated Aboriginal Australian women. The handwritten notes accompanying a print of the negative in Series A Item 1 identifies one of the men (standing on the right) and one of the women (sitting on the right) as 'Barney (Ko-bro) and his wife Bessy ... Dalleburra Tribe'. Barney (Ko-bro) is wearing a king plate. One of the women is holding a baby in her lap. The arm and lower body of a fourth man is also in frame.
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Restricted access due to preservation purposes. Application for access to restricted material may be submitted to the Fryer Librarian for consideration.
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Out of copyright. Able to be reproduced without permission. Please attribute the Fryer Library.
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Broken, top corner of slide missing.
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A tipped-in print or copy of this negative can be found in Series A Item 1, 'Records collected by Mrs Bennett & presented to Queensland University Vol. 1', page 48. A copy of the same image is also held at the British Museum.
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Parcel 1 Item 21
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Created, Kymberley Doyle, 21-Nov-2024.