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- 1897 (Creation)
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1 album for cabinet sized photographs (slotted into thick pages), bound black leather, "H.P." tooled gilt, silver clasps.
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Henrietta Pierce was secretary of the Missionary Helpers Union, Hobart. Taught at Friends School for eleven years from 1897
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Deposited by Mrs N. Hewitt 1970,1971,1980 additonal items deposited by Pat Hewitt 1993
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Photograph album presented on 23 November 1897 to Henrietta Pierce, secretary of the Missionary Helpers Union, Hobart. She had taught at Friends School for eleven years and was leaving Hobart to teach at her aunt's school in Colchester, England. Letter enclosed signed by members of the Missionary Helpers' Union.
Photographs (as identified by Nancie Hewitt):
- Pierce family - Alice, Henrietta, John, Margaret (9 yrs)
- Friends School party (group of girls and boys seated on ground with tennis racquets)
- May Gould - first cousin of Henrietta Pierce
- Gould boys left to right: Jack, Arthur, Cecil, Alan
- Mrs W.E. Shoobridge (nee Mather)
- Edith Shoobridge, daughter of above and missionary wife
- Ada Gatchell, Irish Friend (blind and deaf 40 years)
- Frank Mather, Margaret and Henrietta Pierce before Henrietta went to England 1897
- Charles Sowden
- Henry Propsting
- Hannah Propsting
- Sarah Pumphrey and Mary (daughter)
- Elinor and Margerita Robey [as children with doll]
- Miss Wilson (LeTall), housekeeper Friends School
- Margaret Pierce
- Alice Pierce - taken at Lawson by William Allen [elderly woman with stick and bundle of firewood]
- Shoobridge family - Edith's wedding
- Samuel Clemes - first head of Friends School
- Isabella Jane Clemes (1840-1903) first [woman] senior wrangler of Cambridge University, Newham College
- Ferdinand Grone, husband of Lizzie Pierce
- Aunt Lizzie Pierce, John Pierce's sister
24 Thomas Pierce (grandfather of Mary) "(John youngest son): and Mary Anne - Pierce cousin (boy) (carte de visite by G. & J. Hall, Wakefield, England]
- Woman, spectacles, head & shoulders by William Gill of Colchester [aunt? or other relative]
- Henrietta Pierce [Later photograph, head & shoulders by Whitfield Crosse & Co., Salisbury, Devizes & Southampton]
- John Pierce and Elizabeth - first wife ("Gould. Her brother a Hobart chemist, grandfather of present ones")
- John & Elizabeth Pierce [carte de visite photos by G. & J. Long, Newport Isle of Wight and Brading]
- Friends of Ettie's in England [two young men, spectacles, 1920s or 1930s, photo by Edges Ltd., Llandudno]
- [Young man, rustic boots and breeches no date]
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This material is made available for personal research and study purposes under the University of Tasmania Standard Copyright Licence. For any further use permission should be obtained from the copyright owners. For assistance please contact Special.Collections@utas.edu.au
When reusing this material, please cite the reference number and provide the following acknowledgement:
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HE May 2018