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Photograph album, The Australasian Federal Convention Melbourne 1898, 1898

  • 1898 Federal Convention Album, recto.

  • President of the Convention, Charles Cameron Kingston (1850-1908)

  • The Chairman of the Convention, Richard Baker (1842-1911)

  • The Leader of the Federal Convention, Edmund Barton (1849-1920)

  • William McMillan (1850-1926) and Joseph Palmer Abbott (1842-1901)

  • James Thomas Walker (1841-1923) and signature of James Nixon Brunker (1832-1910)

  • William John Lyne (1844-1913) and Bernhard Ringrose Wise (1858-1916)

  • George Reid (1845-1918) and Richard Edward O'Connor (1851-1912)

  • Joseph Hector Carruthers (1856-1932) and John Alexander Cockburn (1850-1929)

  • Alexander James Peacock (1861-1933) and William Austin Zeal (1830-1912)

  • John Quick (1852-1932) and Simon Fraser (1832-1919)

  • George Turner (1851-1916) and Henry Bournes Higgins (1851-1929)

  • William Arthur Trenwith (1846-1925) and Charles Gavan Duffy (1855-1932), Third Session Assistant Clerk

  • Graham Berry (1822-1904) and Isaac Alfred Isaacs (1855-1948)

  • Alfred Deakin (1856-1919)

  • Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon (1829-1904) and John Henry (1834-1912)

  • Charles Henry Grant (1831-1901) and Henry Dobson (1841-1918)

  • Matthew John Clarke (1863-1923) and Philip Oakley Fysh (1835-1919)

  • Neil Elliott Lewis (1858-1935) and Adye Douglas (1815-1906)

  • Patrick McMahon Glynn (1855-1931) and Vaiben Louis Solomon (1853–1908)

  • James Henderson Howe (1839-1920) and Nicholas John Brown (1838-1903)

  • John William Downer (1843-1915) and William Moore (1823-1914)

  • Signature of John Hannah Gordon (1850-1923) and Josiah Henry Symon (1846-1934)

  • Frederick William Holder (1850-1909) and Edwin Gordon Blackmore (1837-1909), Clerk for the Federal Convention

  • John Forrest (1847-1918) and George Leake (1856-1902)

  • Henry Whittall Venn (1844-1908) and Albert Young Hassell (1841-1918)

  • Sir Henry Briggs (1844-1919) and Frederick Thomas Crowder (1856-1902)

  • Andrew Harriot Henning (1863-1947) and John Winthrop Hackett (1848?-1916)

  • Signatures of Hugh Muir Nelson (1833-1906) and Duncan Gillies (1834-1903)

  • James George Lee Steere (1830-1903)

  • William Valentine Robinson (1837-1908), Acting Clerk for Clerk of the Convention Third Session, and Henry Hibbert Newton (1861-1927)

  • Francis Conway Mason (1843-1915) and an unidentified man (possibly staff of the Victorian Parliament)

  • Walter Hartwell James (1863-1943)

  • 1898 Federal Convention Album, verso.

Historical information

This album commemorates the third session 1897/8 Australasian Federal Convention held in Melbourne from the 22nd of January to the 17th of March 1898. It contains the photographs and signatures of the delegates and photographs of convention staff including those from the Victorian Parliament who assisted during the Convention.

Physical description

Blue leather album with gold embellishment containing 54 cabinet card photographs. Most pages have handwritten signatures of the sitters' below the portrait.

Inscriptions & markings

Recto, gold: "The Australasian Federal Convention/ Melbourne 1898." "LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY/ THE CLERK/ VICTORIA".
Each album page has the title: "The Federal Convention/ 3rd Session, Melbourne, 1898."

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