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Title:
Donald McKay Barnet, Thomas Thorburn and Robert Dick at St Andrew's College, University of Sydney, 1888 / Falk Studios
Creator:
Falk Studios
Date:
[1888]
Format:
1 cabinet photograph : albumen print ; 10.7 x 16.6 cm.
Inscription:
Studio name below image: Falk / 506 Instantaneous Portraits / 496 George St. Sydney. 2 copies: one incribed on verso: "To Miss Tottie Thorburn, in memory of a very happy stay at Fairfield, July 1888, from Bert Dick"; the other inscribed on a paper label Studio name below image: Falk / 506 Instantaneous Portraits / 496 George St. Sydney.
Subject:
portraits
academic robes
university libraries
Thorburn, James Thomas (Tom), 1860-1935.
Dick, Robert, 1869-1943.
Barnet, Donald McKay, 1869-1940.
Fairfield (Cambewarra, N.S.W.)
Series:
June Wallace papers
Description:
Don Barnet, Tom Thorburn and Bert Dick became friends while students at St Andrew's College, University of Sydney, in the 1880s and they were regular visitors in the 1890s to Meroogal, the McKenzie/Thornburn family home in Nowra. Bert was a lifelong friend of Tom Thorburn's youngest sister Kennina (Tottie) Thorburn while Don married Thorburn's niece, Jessie Catherine Macgregor (1869-1946) in 1894. Like Tom Thorburn, Barnet was a minister of the Presbyterian Church.
Provenance:
Estate of June Wallace (1917-2010)
Published in:
Janet K. Ramsay
The women of Meroogal
Sydney, Historic Houses Trust of NSW, 1988, p.78.
Source:
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; June Wallace papers: JMW/34
Rights:
You may save or print this image for research and study. If you wish to use it for any other purposes, you must contact
Museums of History NSW
to request permission.
Material Type:
Picture
Record number:
41252
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