Scrapbook of Francis T. F. Keogh, bookseller & stationer, account book manufacturer, engraver, lithographer & printer, Queen Street, Brisbane, 1873-1880
- Bib ID:
- 7864124
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Keogh, F. T. F. (Francis Thomas Felix), 1841-1919, compiler
- Access Conditions:
- Fragile material, with the original diary displaying some of the degradation characteristic of chemical wood pulp papers (although most of the pasted-in samples are in excellent condition). Available for public use only to researchers who can demonstrate a need to access this material. Please apply to the Manager, Printed Australiana.
- Description:
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- [Brisbane, Queensland] : [F. T. F. Keogh] , [between 1873 and 1880]
- 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 33 cm
- Summary:
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A personal scrapbook containing samples of Keogh’s own engraved and lithographic jobbing work, including commercial stationery, such as letterheads, envelopes, forms and promissory notes (many pre-dated 187_ for use in that decade); coats of arms, crests and monograms (see April 15); personal and business cards (many for photographers); samples of direct-mail advertising circular letters, apparently handwritten, but reproduced by papyrography, a stencil copying process; labels from a wide variety of manufacturers for beer, wine, cordials and other beverages (including a South Australian Shiraz, vintage 1866; see May 8), as well as other products such as patent medicines, jam, and even tinned Australian boiled mutton from Maitland, New South Wales (June 28, printed by John Sands). The items are pasted into a foolscap format copy of Letts’s No. 41 Diary, 1873, colonial edition. There are many blank pages in the second half of the diary. It includes only a couple of handwritten notes: a list of embossing undertaken by H. J. Flint, 1875 (at 1 April) and a list of jobs and quantities (2 December). A few additional pages of lists are excised at the beginning, and a later owner has loosely inserted some additional more modern beer labels at the end. Keogh claimed to have the largest steam lithographic printing works in Queensland, and includes a flyer which indicates he was awarded first prize at the Queensland Intercolonial Exhibition, 1877. The flyer displays an illustration of what is probably his largest press, a Patent “Express” Lithographic Direct Flat-bed Printing Machine, manufactured by Furnival of Manchester (apparently while they were still at 52 Ogden Street, Fairfield Street, Manchester, before their move to Reddish, Stockport, in 1877; see April 12).
- Biography/History:
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Francis Thomas Felix Keogh was born in Dublin in February 1841, and arrived in Brisbane in September 1862. After seven years as a schoolteacher (first for the Education Department as the headmaster of the state school, Fortitude Valley, and then as one of the first masters of the Brisbane Boy’s Grammar School), throat problems forced to change his profession, and he became a bookseller, stationer and printer. He introduced the first steam lithographic printing machine used in Brisbane, which he displayed at the Queensland Intercolonial Exhibition in 1877. Keogh was also a partner in the leading Brisbane photographic studio of Albert Lomer (1862-1899), which lasted from 1874 until 1905, although it has been suggested that Lomer no longer personally ran it after 1880. Whether it is connected is unknown, but Keogh was also declared insolvent in 1880 (and again for a second time in 1900). From around 1880, Keogh seems to have served as an alderman and magistrate, and followed literary and theatrical pusuits. In 1897, Keogh became the assistant librarian at the Brisbane School of Arts, and in 1899 he was promoted to librarian at Supreme Court Library. He retired from that position about a year before his death on 17 August 1919, aged 78.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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Out of Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1919
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1880
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