Second addition
- Component identifier:
- Series [unnumbered]
- Content Summary:
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The photographs in this addition date from the late 1800s to the 1930s. There is an album of photographs of the David family and clan, South Wales, including Edgeworth David's grandparents, Evan and Ann, parents, William and Margaret, aunt, Sarah, sister, Ethel, and other family members. There are also photographs of the Rev. William David and the choir of St. Fagan's Anglican Church, Llandaff, Wales; a David family group taken at St Fagan's Rectory, 1897; portraits and photographs of Rev. William David and family, and a photograph of his grave at St Fagan's Church, Llandaff, South Wales. Edgeworth David's father died in 1897.
Included in the Tannatt Edgeworth David photographs are portraits taken after his return from the Antarctic, 1909, prints of original photographs from the Shackleton Antarctic Expedition, 1907-9, an official National Museum photograph of the David Samurai sword display, photographs of the David family, including Edgeworth David's wife, Caroline, and daughters, Margaret and Molly, photographs of friends and colleagues, and the funeral of Edgeworth David (1934).
Included with this addition is Volume 1 of The Faerie Queene. Edgeworth David took the volume to the Magnetic Pole with him.
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- The papers were purchased by the Library in 1995 from Ms Anne Edgeworth
- Names:
- David Family
Contents
Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn921114).
- Parent Terms of Access:
- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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