Guide to the Nuri Mass photograph collection, 1922-1986

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PIC/P981

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: 2024

Collection Summary

Title
Nuri Mass photograph collection, 1922-1986
Date Range
1890 - 1986
Collection Number
PIC/P981
Extent
47 item photographs : gelatin silver, some hand coloured ; 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.
Language of Materials
English
Repository
Special Collections (Pictures)

Introduction

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of Nuri Mass at Valle Fertil, Argentina with: Mona Vere Celeste Mass nee Stanton (mother), Sydney Bertram Horwitz (husband), Mara Eve Stanton nee Denise Brown (maternal grandmother) Uncle Tom's wife, Guillermina, Feliza, Pedro Mass, Conchita, Gregoria, Barbarita, Sr. Murua and cabritos, Uncle Tom, Honorio, and, Pilar (servant).

Conditions Governing Access

Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1585427).

Conditions Governing Use

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Content Advisory Notice

The Finding Aid contains terms that reflect authors' views or those of the historical period, but which may not be considered appropriate today. While the information may not reflect current understanding, it is provided in an historical context.

Item Descriptions

Portrait of Nuri Mass with her mother, Celeste Mass, ca. [193-?] (Item PIC/P981/1) - Piece PIC Box PS 6688 #PIC/P981/1

Handcoloured.

Wedding photograph of Nuri Celeste Horwitz (née Mass), Sydney Bertram Horwitz and Mona Vere Celeste Mass (née Stanton), 1948 (Item PIC/P981/2) - Piece PIC Box PS 6689 #PIC/P981/2

Creator: McGrath, G.

Portrait of Nuri Mass with her maternal grandmother, Mara Eve Stanton, ca. [192-?] (Item PIC/P981/3) - Piece PIC Box PS 6690 #PIC/P981/3

Creator: Peachey, P.A.

Noted on verso: Nuri Heather Celeste Mass with her maternal grandmother, Mara Eve Stanton (née Devise Brown).

Portrait of Nuri Heather Celeste Mass, ca. [192-?] (Item PIC/P981/4) - Piece PIC Box PS 6691 #PIC/P981/4

Creator: Paramount Studio.

Handcoloured.

Portrait of Nuri and her mother Mona [Celeste] Mass, ca. [193-?] (Item PIC/P981/5) - Piece PIC Box PS 6692 #PIC/P981/5

Portrait of Nuri Heather Mass with Celeste Mass (née Stanton), mother and daughter, ca. [194-?] (Item PIC/P981/6) - Piece PIC Box PS 6693 #PIC/P981/6

Creator: McGrath, G.

Celeste Mass, Nuri Mass (age four years, eight months) with [servant] and servant's wife, Valle Fertil, Argentina, [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/7) - Piece PIC Box PS 6694 #PIC/P981/7

Content advisory notice: this item contains language, terms and descriptions that could cause offence and may not be considered appropriate.

Noted on verso: Celeste Mass, Nuri Mass with servant and "Uncle Tom's wife", Nuri age 4 years 8 months Valle Fertil.

Under the grape vines, with Guillermina, Celeste Mass, Nuri Mass (age six years, four months), Valle Fertil, Argentina, [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/8) - Piece PIC Box PS 6695 #PIC/P981/8

Amongst ruins with Feliza, Celeste Mass, Nuri Mass (six years, four months), Valle Fertil, Argentina, [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/9) - Piece PIC Box PS 6696 #PIC/P981/9

Nuri Mass (age six years four months), Pedro Mass, Valle Fertil, Argentina, [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/10) - Piece PIC Box PS 6697 #PIC/P981/10

Pedro Mass, Nuri Mass (age six years, three months), [with] Conchita(?), The Estancia Mansion, Valle Fertil, Argentina, [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/11) - Piece PIC Box PS 6698 #PIC/P981/11

Staff of mica "Laminadoras", Pedro Mass, Nuri Mass (age six years three months), Valle Fertil, Argentina, [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/12) - Piece PIC Box PS 6699 #PIC/P981/12

Laminating and classifying mica: Gregoria and Barbarita, Pedro Mass, Nuri Mass (age six years one month), Valle Fertil, Argentina, [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/13) - Piece PIC Box PS 6700 #PIC/P981/13

Nuri Mass (six years three months) with Conchita, Valle Fertil, Argentina, [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/14) - Piece PIC Box PS 6701 #PIC/P981/14

Pedro Mass and Nuri Mass (age six years and six months) standing in front of the general store and hotel, Mascasin, Argentina, [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/15) - Piece PIC Box PS 6702 #PIC/P981/15

Raoul Pedro Mass with Nuri Heather Celeste Mass (age four years eight months), Señor Murua and cabritos [goat], Valle Fertil, Argentina, [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/16) - Piece PIC Box PS 6703 #PIC/P981/16

Celeste Mass (née Stanton), Nuri Mass (age four years and seven and a half months), Argentina, [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/17) - Piece PIC Box PS 6704 #PIC/P981/17

Arrival of [man] and Honorio with mica laden donkey, Nuri Mass (age four years, nine months), Pedro Mass, Valle Fertil, Argentina, [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/18) - Piece PIC Box PS 6705 #PIC/P981/18

Content advisory notice: this item contains language, terms and descriptions that could cause offence and may not be considered appropriate.

Noted on verso: Arrival of Uncle Tom and Honorio with mica laden donkey, Nuri Mass (age 4 years 9 months), Pedro Mass, Valle Fertil.

Servant Pilar, Celeste Mass, Nuri Mass (age five years, ten months) drinking mate, Valle Fertil, Argentina, [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/19) - Piece PIC Box PS 6706 #PIC/P981/19

Mica blocks, Pedro Mass, Nuri Mass (age six years, three months), Valle Fertil, Argentina, [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/20) - Piece PIC Box PS 6707 #PIC/P981/20

[Portrait of] Nuri Mass, taken (but not used) for 1971 dustjacket of As Much Right to Live, 1971 (Item PIC/P981/21) - Piece PIC Box PS 6708 #PIC/P981/21

Nuri Mass in her Sydney garden, printed in Daun[?], 1986 (Item PIC/P981/22) - Piece PIC Box PS 6709 #PIC/P981/22

Portrait of Nuri Mass reading [1], ca. [193-?] (Item PIC/P981/23) - Piece PIC Box PS 6710 #PIC/P981/23

Creator: Lemaire Studios, Sydney.

Handcoloured.

Portrait of Nuri [Heather Celeste] Mass as the Fairy Queen, ca. [192-?] (Item PIC/P981/24) - Piece PIC Box PS 6711 #PIC/P981/24

Note with item: The Fairy Queen Theatre production, The Anne Maconald School of Dance (?).

Handcoloured.

Portrait of Nuri Heather Celeste Mass [holding flowers], ca. [193-?] (Item PIC/P981/25) - Piece PIC Box PS 6712 #PIC/P981/25

Creator: Lemaire Studios, Sydney.

Noted on verso: Mignonne[?] with ever so much love from both Celeste and Nuri.

Handcoloured.

Portrait of Nuri Mass, ca. [193-?] (Item PIC/P981/26) - Piece PIC Box PS 6713 #PIC/P981/26

Creator: Lemaire Studios, Sydney.

Handcoloured.

[Portrait of Nuri Mass reading] [2], [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/27) - Piece PIC Drawer PM 14262 #PIC/P981/27

Creator's signature below image is illegible.

Portrait of Mara Eve Stanton, William Stanton and children Byron Lionel Stanton and Mona Vere Celeste Stanton, ca. 1890s? (Item PIC/P981/28) - Piece PIC Box PS 6714 #PIC/P981/28

Noted on verso: Mora Eve Stanton (née Devise Brown), William Stanton & children, Byron Lionel Stanton & Mona Vere Celeste Stanton 1890s?

Portrait of Mona Vere Celeste Stanton with [her] mother Mara Eve Stanton, ca. [191-?] (Item PIC/P981/29) - Piece PIC Box PS 6715 #PIC/P981/29

Noted on verso: Mona Vera Celeste Stanton with mother Mara Eve Stanton (née Devise Brown).

Portrait of Mara Eve Stanton with granddaughter Nuri Heather Celeste Mass, ca. [191-?] (Item PIC/P981/30) - Piece PIC Box PS 6716 #PIC/P981/30

Portrait of William and Mara Eve Stanton with children, ca. [189-?] (Item PIC/P981/31) - Piece PIC Box PS 6717 #PIC/P981/31

Note with item: William Stanton, Mara Eve Stanton (née Devise Brown) with children Olive, Mona Vere Celeste, [and] Byron Lionel.

Portrait of Mona Vere Celeste Stanton, ca. [191-?] (Item PIC/P981/32) - Piece PIC Box PS 6718 #PIC/P981/32

Creator: Vandyck, Melbourne.

Handcoloured.

Portrait of Mara Eve Stanton (née Devise Brown), William Stanton and daughter Mona Vere Celeste de Mass (née Stanton), ca. [191-?] (Item PIC/P981/33) - Piece PIC Box PS 6719 #PIC/P981/33

Wedding photograph of Raoul Pedro Mass y Turros and Mona Vere Celeste Mass (née Stanton), ca. 1914 (Item PIC/P981/34) - Piece PIC Box PS 6720 #PIC/P981/34

Portrait of Nuri Heather Celeste Mass, ca. 1920 (Item PIC/P981/35) - Piece PIC Box PS 6721 #PIC/P981/35

Creator: Mackintosh, Jessie, 1891-1958.

Note with item: Before leaving for Argentine[Argentina].

Portrait of Mara Eve Stanton (née Devise Brown), Mona Vere Celeste de Mass (née Stanton), Frank Devise Brown and Nuri Heather Celeste Mass, ca. [192-?] (Item PIC/P981/36) - Piece PIC Box PS 6722 #PIC/P981/36

Creator: The Johnson Studios.

Portrait of Mona Vere Celeste Mass with Nuri Heather Celeste Mass, ca. [193-?] (Item PIC/P981/37) - Piece PIC Box PS 6723 #PIC/P981/37

Noted on verso: Mona Vere Celeste Mass née Stanton with Nuri Heather Celeste Mass (daughter).

[Nuri Mass with type pieces and composing stick, showing two young children] [1], [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/38) - Piece PIC Box PS 6724 #PIC/P981/38

[Nuri Mass with Celeste Mass using printing machine], [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/39) - Piece PIC Box PS 6725 #PIC/P981/39

Same image as PIC/P981/41.

[Nuri Mass and Celeste Mass looking at published books and illustrations], [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/40) - Piece PIC Box PS 6726 #PIC/P981/40

[Nuri Mass with Celeste Mass using printing machine], [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/41) - Piece PIC Box PS 6727 #PIC/P981/41

Adhered to cardboard advertisement.

Same image as PIC/P981/39.

Handcoloured.

[Nuri Mass with type pieces and composing stick, showing two young children] [2], [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/42) - Piece PIC Box PS 6728 #PIC/P981/42

[Nuri Mass and Celeste Mass working at printing machine], [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/43) - Piece PIC Box PS 6729 #PIC/P981/43

[Nuri Mass and Celeste Mass with two young children creating illustrations and sorting pages for book], [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/44) - Piece PIC Box PS 6730 #PIC/P981/44

[Nuri Mass and two young children printing pages for book], [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/45) - Piece PIC Box PS 6731 #PIC/P981/45

[Nuri Mass with type pieces and composing stick, showing two young children] [3], [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/46) - Piece PIC Box PS 6732 #PIC/P981/46

Nuri Mass chooses the kind of type she needs from her 23 type cases, [n.d.] (Item PIC/P981/47) - Piece PIC Box PS 6733 #PIC/P981/47

Noted on verso: Please return to Joyce Burn Glen, 31 Carlotta Road, Double Bay, Sydney, NSW, Australia.


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