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74 x 99 mm. Showing Bell seated beside the stone aquarium built by him near the waters edge at Blue Bay in 1916.

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119 x 82 mm. Showing Bell and other Europeans in the Governor's box in the grandstand at Champ de Mars Race Course.

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142 x 85 mm. Floreal was a new suburb founded by HHB.

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110 x 82 mm. Chauffeur-driven car outside Le Reduit

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79 x 136 mm. Showing Bell standing on a station platform beside a railway carriage.

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74 x 87 mm. Showing Myers, a naval officer, crouched beside a large tortoise at Le Reduit.

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135 x 90 mm.

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Part of an incomplete notebook containing material for Bell’s memoirs, including suggestions for titles and notes of projected subjects or anecdotes. It begins with page 150 (30 sheets).

Scope and Contents This file contains source material that Bell collected for the composition of his memoirs, drawn from his official career or travels during his retirement. It includes notes on memorable people, places and experiences, or subjects of particular interest. The file also preserves two poems by Bell, the text of a speech that he gave at a West Indian Club dinner in 1909, correspondence regarding his tour of the Far East during 1925-26, the text of a lecture ‘Some aspects of colonial...

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135 x 80 mm. As captioned: this section of the ballroom at Le Reduit is furnished with armchairs.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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84 x 71 mm. Showing a small terrier balanced on the shell of a Mauritius tortoise.

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134 x 79 mm. Showing Bell mounted on his horse Pansy on the drive in front of Le Reduit.

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135 x 193 mm. View looking towards the mountains with palms in the foreground.

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233 x 174 mm. General view of the pergola built in the garden at Le Reduit by Bell.

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100 x 74 mm. General view of the pergola built in the garden at Le Reduit by Bell.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

Scope and Contents Print reproductions of Frome's South Australian watercolours and sketches, with a few works from Canada and Mauritius, and a portrait print of Frome himself. This section also includes copies of works relating to South Australia by other artists that Frome had acquired. A catalogue, 'The Australian collection of General E.C. Frome in the Royal Commonwealth Society' written by RCS Librarian Donald Simpson, is stored with the collection, along with a listing by R.G. Appleyard 'Captain E.C....

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A collection of loose uncaptioned albumen prints.

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89 x 139 mm. Monochrome postcard of the summit, published by 'Magasins Reunis'.

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98 x 74 mm. Showing a European group seated beside a woodland pool.

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78 x 101 mm. Showing a European group seated on rocks and eating a picnic lunch.

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350 x 170 mm. Two photographs joined to form a panorama looking over the harbour.

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115 x 65 mm. Water colour, signed F. de Segrai (?).