Photographs, 1918-1935

Containers:

Folder 9a

Component identifier:

File 9a

Content Summary:

Includes studio portraits of Hughes taken in Paris in 1919 by A. Langfier (items 583-590); two studio portraits taken in Paris by Henri Manuel, n.d. (items 592 and 593); studio portraits of Hughes and his wife, Helen, taken in London by Vandyk, n.d. (items 593-601); members of the French Mission to Australia, 1918, (item 602); studio portraits of Hughes by Kerry and Co, Sydney, n.d. (items 603 and 604); photograph of a meeting somewhere in Sydney, n.d. (item 605); a Christmas concert at the Hammond Hotel for single unemployed, Sydney, with Hughes being presented with a cake for his wife, December 1935 (item 606) and a portrait of Lord Novar and his wife, Helen, n.d. (item 607).

Comprises items 583-607.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The W. M. Hughes Papers were presented to the National Library of Australia by Dame Mary Hughes in 1953. The collection was received in two consignments. One consisted of papers taken from the Perpetual Trustee Company comprising material from Hughes' Lindfield home and from his office rooms at the Commonwealth Offices, Sydney; the other came directly from Lindfield. Lists of the contents of both consignments are held in the Library's Manuscript Branch. With the agreement of the executors and the Library, much of the collection, was for a time, held at the Australian National University by Fitzhardinge. He was permitted sole access to the collection while writing the biography Hughes commissioned in 1951. Fitzhardinge's own papers documenting the writing of the biography are also held by the Library (MS 5400). The papers transferred to the Library in 1953 are by no means the total collection of Hughes' personal papers, although it is impossible to say what proportion has survived. (see Fitzhardinge, p.936).

Names:

Hughes, W. M. (1862-1952)

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