Notes: one of two Winsor & Newton, water colour boxes, used by Miss Isobel Bowden (1908-1986). The colour blocks are in china pans with the colour printed on the side and W & N England, impressed on the base. The large half pans are impressed Reeves School Quality, Made in England. It is shown open with the fold-out mixing tray in the lid and the internal cover open.
Miss Bowden used watercolour illustrate her plant studies, she had several plants named after her, including Blue Mountains Cliff Eyebright (Euphrasia bowdeniae).
Format: colour digital print, by JC Merriman
Object: 70mm x 125mm x 20mm when closed
Date Range: object date c. 1930s
Location: Miss Bowden lived in Fletcher St, within walking distance of Wentworth Falls and Valley of the Waters
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons. .
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library bmcc.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/default/
Part of: Local Studies Collection - LS Images
Provenance: Bowden Archive
Links:
www.bluemountains.org.au/documents/submissions/bs150209-i...
www.environment.nsw.gov.au/savingourspeciesapp/project.as...
Tags: paint box watercolour
Notes: one of two Winsor & Newton, water colour boxes, used by Miss Bowden. The colour blocks are in porcelain full and half pans with the colour printed on the base. The brushes are a Raphael, Martre Kolinsky 8413, size 4, purchased from Angus and Robertson for $6.10, dating it post Feb 1966; and a size 4, Da Vinci, finest red sable, made in Germany.
Object dimensions: 210mm x 52mm x 18mm
Format: colour digital print, JC Merriman
Date Range: object date c. 1930s
Location: Miss Bowden lived in Fletcher St, within walking distance of Wentworth Falls and Valley of the Waters
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons. .
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library bmcc.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/default/
Part of: Local Studies Collection - LS Images
Provenance: Bowden Archive
Links:
www.bluemountains.org.au/documents/submissions/bs150209-i...
Notes: Silk embroidered handkerchief, sent from Egypt to his mother by L/Cpl Henry (Harry) Paish, 4 Infantry Brigade, 7th Company AASC, Gallipoli, Egypt and France.
Format: scan
Date Range: As a driver in the Supply Coy., Harry sailed to Gallipoli from Lemnos on the 'Ascot', the ship stood offshore on 24th April while the landing was made but returned to Cairo when it was realised that the horses and wagons would be of no use. He was then stationed in Cairo until December 1915 before embarking for Marseilles.
Licensing: Attribution, non-commercial, share alike, creative commons
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library bmcc.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/default/
Part of: Local Studies Collection - LS Images
Provenance: Donated by Lindsay Paish
Links: recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Gallery151/dist/J...
Tags: World War 1 First World War souvenirs fabric embroidery history
Notes: Silk embroidered handkerchief, sent from France to his mother by L/Cpl Henry Paish, 4 Infantry Brigade, 7th Company AASC, Gallipoli, Egypt and France.
Format: scan
Date Range: Henry may have sent this while he was on leave in Paris in March 1918, before embarking from Le Harve for Australia in October.
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library bmcc.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/default/
Part of: Local Studies Collection - LS Images
Provenance: Donated by Lindsay Paish
Links: recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Gallery151/dist/J...
Tags: First World War World War I souvenirs embroidery fabric history
Notes: Painted and carved timber, 173 cm H, 74 cm W.
The official unveiling of the Board was performed on Anzac Day 1921, in the grounds of the Springwood Public School.
Format: Colour digital photograph
Date Range: 1921
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library bmcc.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/default/
Part of: Local Studies Collection
Provenance: John Merriman
Links:
Tags: memorials honor roll Springwood World War One WWI Blue Mountains history