Portrait of Susannah Mary Ellis. Photographer: Goodwin, Edward T. F.
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Head-and-shoulder cabinet portrait, taken in Melbourne, of Havelock Ellis' mother. Oval vignetted image, with some retouching. Tentatively dated 1868 on the reverse, but apparently later.
Half-tone reproductions of portrait photographs of Edward Peppen and Susannah Mary Ellis. The portrait of Edward Ellis is a copy of print 28. Reproduced in Isaac Goldberg, 'Havelock Ellis. A biographical and critical survey' (1928), facing p. 5.
The birthplace of Henry Havelock Ellis, St John's Grove, Croydon. Photographer: Handford, Archie
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View from the road of a double fronted house. The note on the reverse states that Ellis was born in the house on the left. Reproduced in Isaac Goldberg, 'Havelock Ellis. A biographical and critical survey' (1928), facing p. 35.
Photographic copy of a painting of the American- built three-masted ship 'Empress.' Photographer: Wheeler, Halsworth
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Photograph of a painting of the ship 'Empress' in which Havelock Ellis, under his father's captaincy, sailed round the world in 1865-66. Reproduced in Isaac Goldberg, 'Havelock Ellis. A biographical and critical survey' (1928), facing p.34.
View of Sparkes Creek. Photographer: Ross, Marjorie
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View looking along the creek. Prints 4-55 are a series of landscape views of the Sparkes Creek area, where Ellis was a schoolmaster from 1878-79, taken by his friend Marjorie Ross. In his autobiography, Ellis writes, 'This year 1878 was to be in all exterior relationships the loneliest, the most...