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Family Photo Albums Of Stan McCabe, Australian Test Cricketer,…
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Melbourne
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11-Dec-2017
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Family Photo Albums Of Stan McCabe, Australian Test Cricketer, 1910s-1930s. Three photograph albums containing approx. 300 vintage silver gelatin photographs, two albums are annotated with captions and some dated in ink on album page below images, sizes range from 4.9 x 3 cm to 24.4 x 19.2 cm. with most images laid down on album pages. The albums contain many family photographs, including beach holidays, outings to Taronga Zoo, Circular Quay and Centennial Park, family pets, groups of women including Edna McCabe (Stan's wife) on the tennis court, and cricket team mates Jack Gregory and Warren Bardsley. Other images of interest are of the construction of Sydney Harbour Bridge, an autographed photograph of author William John Locke and contralto singer Clara Butt, and two photographs of French tennis champion Jean Borotra, the 1911 City Rugby League team. Also included in the albums is an invitation for a 'Complimentary dinner tendered by the NSW Lawn Tennis Association to the NSW members of the 1928 Davis Cup Team and Women's Overseas Team', signed by attendees. Stan McCabe (1910-1968) was an Australian cricketer who played 39 Test matches for Australia from 1930 to 1938, and was vice-captain to Sir Donald Bradman. In 1935 he married Edna May Linton, and they had two children. McCabe died in 1968 near his family home, while trying to dispose of a dead possum which resulted in a fall from a cliff at Beauty Point, Mosman. He was inducted into the Cricket Hall of Fame in 2002.
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