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- ca. 1900-1979 (Creation)
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1 parcel, 2 albums.
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Biographical history
Emily Caroline Watson was born in Manchester in 1899, she moved to Australia in the 1920s and became involved in the theatre, first in Brisbane and then in Sydney. During this time, she used her mother's maiden name and was known as Carrie Tennant. In 1929, Caroline married Francis Kelly and took his surname. She founded the Community Playhouse, the first theatre in New South Wales devoted to producing Australian drama, in 1929, followed by the Play Society in 1931. She edited The Community Magazine: Official Magazine of the Community Play-house from 1930 to 1931. In the 1930s she enrolled in a Diploma in Anthropology at the University of Sydney and went on to conduct anthropological fieldwork in Aboriginal communities at Fraser Island and Cherbourg in Queensland and at Burnt Bridge in New South Wales. During the Second World War she began a major survey of non-British settlement in Australia for the Commonwealth Government, a project that continued until the late 1940s. Towards the end of her working life, she served as a consulting anthropologist to the State Planning Authority of New South Wales. Caroline Kelly died on 1 September 1989 in Kyogle.
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Photographs, negatives, mounted slides and real photo postcards of Caroline Kelly, her husband, Timothy, and her extended family, and other people and places associated with Caroline Kelly and her family.
Album 1
15 real photo postcards and 166 black-and-white photographs (sizes vary) of Caroline Kelly, her husband, Timothy, and her extended family, as well as photographs of farmland and dogs, 1850s-1950s. Items 1-3, a real photo postcard and two black-and-white photographs, were originally housed in frames. Some of the people and places identified include Oscar Ulrich Vonwiller, Gordon Bennett Vonwiller, John Bennett Vonwiller, Julie Anne Vonwiller, Rathkells Farm in the Upper Kangaroo Valley and Caboonbah. Item 1 is possibly a picture of Caroline's father, Robert Francis Watson. Items 7-9 include a white ribbon and an unaddressed and undated sympathy card from the Shell Company of Australia Limited, all originally contained in an envelope marked 'Not to be opened'.
Album 2
48 negatives (sizes vary), originally stored across four original film envelopes, as well as three travel cards, 15 black-and-white photographs (sizes vary), 38 colour photographs (sizes vary) and 188 mounted slides (35mm) showing people, places and pets associated with Caroline Kelly and her family, 1940s-1980s. Some of the people and places identified include Oscar Ulrich Vonwiller, Sydney Harbour, Innisfail and Rathkells Farm in the Upper Kangaroo Valley.
Parcel 2
Item 1
Unidentified couple signing a marriage register, undated, possibly ca. 1940s.
Item 2
Group portrait of unidentified attendees at the Jewish Welfare Guardian Society of Australia First Federal Convention in Melbourne, 1948.
Item 3
Studio portrait of Caroline Kelly in a wedding gown, 1929.
Item 4
Group portrait of Caroline Kelly and Timothy Kelly on their wedding day, surrounded by unidentified guests, 1929.
Item 5
CD-R containing digitised scans of photographs from Box 10 Items 1-3, and the photographs, real photo postcards and sympathy card from Album 1, Items 1-9. There are two copies of each scan, both a JPG and TIFF copy, and 22 files in total.
Folder 1
Two contact sheets of digitised scans of photographs, real photo postcards and the sympathy card from Album 1 Items 1-7, as well as the photographs from Parcel 2 Items 1-4.
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Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
In copyright. Contact the Fryer Library. Can be reproduced for personal research and study. For other uses see About copyright. Please attribute the Fryer Library.
Pre-1955 photographs - Out of copyright. Able to be reproduced without permission. Please attribute the Fryer Library.
Language of material
- English
- No linguistic content
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
CD-R (Compact disc-recordable).
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Albums 1-2
Parcel 2 Items 1-5, Folder 1
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Album 1 Items 1-3 previously housed in Box 11 Items 1-3 .
Album 1 Items 4-9 previously housed in Box 11 Folder 2.
Parcel 2 Items 1-4 previously housed in Box 11 Folder 1.
Parcel 2 Folder 1 previously housed in Box 11 Folder 3.
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Revised
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Kymberley Doyle, 25-Oct-2024.
Revised, Kymberley Bax, 20-May-2024.
Converted from PDF finding aid, AM, 19-May-2020.