Correspondence and photographs, 1999-2010

Containers:

Box 8

Component identifier:

File 51

Content Summary:

This consignment comprises photographs of a portrait, owned by Jessie Street's daughter, Philippa Fingleton, arriving at the Jessie Street National Women's Library (JSNWL) in Sydney in 1999. Included is a photograph of Sydney Lord Mayor, Frank Sartor and Street's grandson, Hamish Mackay, carrying the portrait into the Library; Margaret Whitlam with JSNWL board member, Della Elliot; and Hamish Mackay, Lady Penny Street, granddaughter of Jessie Street, and JSNWL board member, Shirley Jones. In 2010, the Street family and the Library gifted this portrait to the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Also one letter and two postcards from Street to her daughter, Belinda Mackay, whilst travelling overseas (1963) and a copy of the booklet 'A portrait of Jessie Street', 2002, compiled and edited by Paris Silvester. Reproduced in the booklet is a speech given by Belinda Mackay at the Jessie Street Conference, held in memory of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jessie Street.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were acquired from the family of Belinda Mackay.

Subjects:

Society and culture
Women's rights

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