Australian Women 1830s - 1990s
A selection of books, ephemera, artworks, and photographs, all of which are by, about or of Australian women.
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# 46019
FRANKLIN, (Stella Maria Sarah) Miles (1879-1954)
All that swagger. (First Australian edition, signed)
Sydney : The Bulletin, 1936. First Australian edition. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original red cloth with black lettering to spine, in the publisher’s orange dust jacket with black type (fine and bright); front free-endpaper with early ownership signature, title page signed in black ink by the author Miles Franklin, pp. 500; spotting to edges, …
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# 46315
[Anon.]
[FEMINISM] Gynergy, Sat 18 April : wimmins energy wimmins dance. Benefit for the Wimmin Patriarchy and the Future Forum. Carlton Community Centre 150 Princes St. Hens Teeth & Toxic Shock. $4-3.
[Carlton, Vic.] : The Forum, 1981. Handbill, 205 x 295 mm, printed in b/w recto only; corner creasing and a few marks; unmounted. The Wimmin Patriarchy and the Future Forum was held 17-20 April 1981 at Princes Hill High School in Carlton, Melbourne. This is a rare handbill for a benefit dance associated with the forum, …
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# 46298
SYDNEY FILMMAKERS CO-OPERATIVE LTD. [Porter, Carol, artist]
[SEXUALITY] We Aim To Please : a film about female sexuality by Robin Laurie & Margot Nash.
12 1/2 minutes, 470 feet, 16mm, colour, optical sound, rental $10. [Drop title]. Darlinghurst, NSW : Sydney Filmmakers Co-Operative Ltd., [1976]. Broadsheet, 290 x 210 mm, folding to 97 x 210 mm, printed on both sides, tri-panel of cartoon illustrations signed ‘C. Porter’ (i.e. Carol Porter); very good condition. No copies located on Trove.
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# 46368
KRUGER, Johann Friedrich Carl (Fred), (1831-1888)
“Hariet, Goulbourn tribe”
[Caption from inscription on verso of mount]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso inscribed in ink (probably in the hand of the photographer) ‘Hariet [sic] / Goulbourn [sic] tribe’; a superb print in excellent condition; the mount is clean and stable. This beautiful portrait of Harriet, a Djadjawurrung …
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# 38842
PRESTON, Margaret (1875 - 1963)
Sturt’s Desert Pea, 1925
Woodcut, printed in black ink from one block, coloured by hand, measuring 184 x 248 mm (image), signed in the image lower left M. P., signed in pencil lower right Margaret Preston, titled lower left 15 Proof Sturt’s Desert Pea etc., framed in black timber. Printed in an edition of 50 copies. This striking modernist woodcut features …
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# 41019
HOPKINS, F. R. C. (editor)
The Australian ladies’ annual
Contributions by ‘Tasma,’ H.N.B., Mrs. J.A. Bode, Mrs. Dampier, Mrs. Cross, Mrs. Meredith, ‘Sylvia,’ Mrs. T. P. Hill, ‘Little Rosebud, Miss Donnelly, Miss Cheeseman, ‘Constance Craig’, Miss Card, and others. Melbourne : M’Carron, Bird & Co., 1878. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth over bevelled boards, corners rubbed, lightly flecked, upper hinge cracked, title page printed in red …
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# 46475
ROBINSON, J.
Female nursing staff at the South Sydney Women’s Hospital, Camperdown, c.1906.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 138 x 87 mm, printed on Empire Post Card stock, blind-stamped lower centre ‘J. ROBINSON, CA[MPERDOWN?]; mailed by [Mr.] C. Devlin of Kogarah to Miss Katie Oakes of 15 Farr Street, Rockdale (now Banksia) on 18 September 190[6?]; the print has excellent clarity (every face can be seen in detail!), and …
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# 41770
CROFT BROTHERS
Ambrotype portrait of a seated woman in a blue dress and lace holding a daguerreotype case. Sydney, New South Wales, circa 1861.
Sixth plate ambrotype photograph with applied colour, 80 x 70 mm; housed in a nonpareil brass mat stamped ‘CROFT’ at l.r., in a leather case with embossed ‘vase of flowers’ motif (case separated along the cloth hinge, but with a working clasp); the ambrotype is in exceptionally fine condition. This enigmatic studio portrait of a strikingly …
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# 43634
Photographer unknown.
Ambrotype portrait of Lady Susannah Wilson (Edmeades) Hindmarsh, wife of the first Governor of South Australia, Sir John Hindmarsh. Taken in England, circa 1856; reframed in Melbourne, 1859.
Quarter-plate ambrotype (wet collodion positive on glass), 100 x 80 mm (sight), in a paper and card mount with oval inset, housed within a colonial gilded timber wall frame with original cover glass (95 x 170 mm); the paper on the back of the frame with an inscription in ink in a refined hand identifying …
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# 42818
PARSONS Elizabeth (1831-1897)
Untitled (Pastoral view across St. Kilda and Albert Park) 1885
Watercolour on paper, 240 x 345 mm (image), signed and dated in image l.l. ‘E. Parsons 1885’; small vertical section of discolouration along right section of the image, otherwise very good condition; housed in a hand gilded period style frame by Jarman’s Framing after a design by recognised colonial framer Isaac Whitehead. Elizabeth Parsons (1831-1897) …
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# 46328
[GLENN, Eve & EVANS, Megan]
[FEMINISM; MELBOURNE] Womens Mural opening celebrations. Saturday 5th April 3 pm. All welcome.
[Melbourne : Women’s Mural Project, 1986]. Foolscap folio handbill, printed on both sides; text on verso: ‘We are going to have a party in the street to celebrate the opening of the Women’s Mural Project. 3 pm – 7.30 pm Saturday 5th April, Gas & Fuel Corporation Depot Wall, corner Hodgkinson Street and Smith Street …
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# 46482
IWD COLLECTIVE (Melbourne)
[MELBOURNE] International Women’s Day dance. 8pm Thur 8 March Melbourne Town Hall. Women only.
Friends and Relations, Nice Girls Don’t Spit, Suffering Jets, women’s comedy. At head of sheet: International Women’s Day 1990. [Melbourne] : Designed by Redletter & the IWD Collective, 1990. Handbill, A4 size, printed recto only; faint original folds, very good. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.
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# 46327
STONE, Jennifer & CASEY, Helen (organisers)
Womens art at work : a mobile exhibition of art produced by women on tour for three months at workplaces and community centres.
Also titled: Womens art at work, Catalogue 1981. [Melbourne?] : Community Arts Board andThe Crafts Board of the Australia Council, 1981. Foolscap folio (300 x 215 mm), printed wrappers with 3-page stapled catalogue of 85 works by a large number of lesser-known Australian women artists and artisans including Eve Glenn, Iris Birt, Helen Cole, Pierrette, …
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# 46329
[BLACK, Wendy, designer & printer]
[FEMINISM; SEXUALITY] Life as a Body : 4 programmes of women’s films. Two sessions 12.30 / 5.30 daily. Presented by RMIT Union Arts Activities & RMIT Women’s Group.
Lipstick Addiction with The Blister Sisters, For Whom the Avon Bell[e] Tolls, The Object, Size 10, Farewell to Charms. Forester’s Lounge, July 30. / Taking Off Stereotypes: The Invisible Woman, Age Before Beauty, Take Off, The Stripper, A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts. Forester’s Lounge, Wed. Aug. 6. / Bodies, We Should Call it a …
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# 43927
MERLIN, Beaufoy (AMERICAN & AUSTRALASIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY)
Staff and pupils outside a Sydney private school (possibly Henry Montagu’s Queen’s College for Young Ladies, Macleay Street, Potts Point), 1870-72.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 105 mm (mount); verso with the pictorial back mark in violet of the American & Australasian Photographic Company, Beaufoy Merlin, Sydney Office, 324 George Street; the print is a little pale but otherwise in very good condition, as is the mount. Beaufoy Merlin specialised in photographing …
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# 46152
DURYEA, Townsend, junior
Four studio portraits of a vaudeville performer named Jessie. Adelaide, late 1890s.
Four albumen print photographs, cabinet card format, 161 x 103 mm (mounts); rectos all with the embossed silver imprint of ‘T. Duryea, 51 Rundle Street, Adelaide’; to the verso of one is a dedication inscription in ink written by the sitter which has been scratched out (possibly by a jealous later partner?), of which we …