Guide to the Papers of Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1966-1967
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
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Series 1. Seven albums of newspaper cuttings, photographs, letters, poems, menus and concert, theatre and sports programs kept by Lord and Lady Kintore in South Australia, November 1890 - April 1895
The cuttings are mostly from the South Australian Register and the Advertiser. Apart from general articles on Australia, the subjects include Australian governorships, parliamentary proceedings, vice-regal social events, freemasonry, reviews of defence forces, visits by Kintore to Northern Territory and Broken Hill (1891), Lady Kintore Cottage Homes, visits to Adelaide of Lord Jersey (Jan. 1891), Lord Charles Scott (June 1891), Lord Glasgow (May 1892), Sir William Robinson (July 1892), Sir William Jervois (August 1892), death of Duke of Clarence (Jan. 1892), collapse of Broken Hill strike (November 1892), ministerial changes, visit of Kintore to Britain in 1893-94, death of Sir Robert Duff (March 1895), and departure of Kintore from South Australia (April 1895)...
Series 2. Government House Guestbook and Photograph Album, 1889 - 1914
The album mainly contains autographs and photographs of guests at Government House, Adelaide, including a number of group photographs. There are also photographs of Government House, Marble Hill, Montefiore House, various Adelaide buildings (including the Art Gallery and School of Mines), Kintore Avenue, a party at Government House, Melbourne, and Lord Tennyson and the Flinders Column, Mount Lofty (1902). Individuals represented include Lord Hopetoun, Sir William Robinson, Sir Henry Ayers, Sir Robert Duff, Lord Jersey, Lord Onslow, Sir Henry Norman, Bishop G.W. Kennion and E.W. Wallington. A number of the photographs were evidently sent to the Kintores after they returned to Britain in 1895.