| Description | Album covering the period September 1892 to March 1893, containing letters, invitations, photographs, cartoons programmes and cuttings from newspapers recording the Earl and Countess's public and family life during this portion of the Earl's governorship.
This album details the coverage the governor and his family received in the press during this period. The focus is largely on social occasions and society columns in the press, particularly in relation to the Countess's return to Britain but the album also includes press reports on political matters such as the Governor's involvement in the Broken Hill Strike, and business matters including the launch of the South Australia Portland Cement Company.
The photographs in the album include portraits, an interior photograph of the Town Hall, Adelaide "arranged for Miss Hawkin's Conversazione", street views of Adelaide an photographs of the countryside, and at Marble Hill, and an untitled militia group.
Landscape folio album, bound in green half morocco,, title on spine "Australia Sept. 1892 - March 1893" |