Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1896-1915 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
1 box, 1 oversize folder (62 plans)
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Walter Carey Voller (1863-1932), the son of the Reverend James Voller and his wife Ann (nee Carryer) was born in Sydney in 1863 and came to Brisbane with his family in ca 1875. He attended Brisbane Grammar School and subsequently completed his articles in architecture with F.D.G. Stanley. He commenced practice as an architect in about 1891 and was in partnership with W.E. Graham as Voller & Graham in 1892/1893. Voller remained active as an architect until 1930 with offices in the city in Queen Street. He was a fellow of the Queensland Institute of Architects (the Queensland Chapter of the Australian Iinstitute of Architecture from 1930) and its President from 1903 to 1906. Voller was also a enthusiastic photographer and a member of the Queensland Photographic Society. He lived with his family at his residence Tuxlith on Swann Road in Taringa. He was survived by his wife Ellen (nee Harwood), his daughter Lilla, and his sons Roderic, who also became an architect, and Kenneth.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1896-1915,.
Collection alternatively titled as: Walter Carey Voller Collection
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Sixty two architectural drawings for twenty seven jobs. Two photograph albums: Photograph album, 1896 to 1908, ‘Family and historic photographs taken and developed by W C Voller, 1896 on', some photographs in this album were taken by Edward Day Bird; and Photograph album, ‘Family and historic photographs taken and developed by W C Voller, 1906 on’, 1906 – 1915. Some captions in this album by Walter Voller, others by one of his children. In these captions Ellen and Walter Voller are referred to as ‘Mum’ and ‘Dad’ and Roderic and Lilla by their first names. Kenneth Voller was born a few years after his siblings Rod and Lilla.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Out of copyright. Able to be reproduced without permission. Please attribute the Fryer Library.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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Album 1 (Item 1) Digitised in 2024:D000742
Album 2 (Item 2) Digitised in 2024: D000745
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Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Alma MMS ID
Access points
Subject access points
- Architecture, Domestic -- Queensland -- Designs and plans
- Architecture -- Designs and plans -- 19th century
- Architecture -- Designs and plans -- 20th century
- Architects -- Queensland
- Queensland -- Pictorial works
- Photographers -- Queensland -- 19th century
- Photographers -- Queensland -- 20th century
- Architecture -- Queensland
- Architectural drawings (Visual works)
Place access points
Name access points
- Voller, Walter Carey, 1863-1932 (Subject)
- Voller & Graham (Subject)
- Queensland Institute of Architects (Subject)
- Queensland Photographic Society (Subject)
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Status
Revised
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Linda Justo, 30-Jun-2021. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.