Summary

Photographic portrait of Alice Baker, CBE, circa 1930s.

Alice Baker, nee Shaw, contributed socially, culturally and financially to the colony, and later the state, of Victoria. She was prominent in Australia's National Council of Women and was a generous philanthropist. She was awarded a CBE in 1933.

Alice was the wife of Thomas Baker, a photographic entrepreuner who established the highly successful businesses T. Baker & Co, Baker and Rouse, and Kodak Australasia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the 1920s Alice, her husband and her sister Eleanor Shaw, financed the Baker Medical Research Institute at the Alfred Hospital.

This photograph was reproduced in an article noting Alice Baker's CBE award in the 1933 New Year Honours, published in the Australasian Photo Review, 14 January 1933, p8. It was reproduced again in the same publication to mark her death, The Australasian Photo-Review, 1 April 1935, p.164.

This image is part of the Kodak collection of products, promotional materials, photographs and working life artefacts collected from Kodak Australasia in 2005, when the Melbourne manufacturing plant at Coburg closed down.

Description of Content

Copy negative showing a formal oval shaped portrait photograph on a stand that is lying on a wooden table for copy photography, with pins at bottom left and right holding the original metal portrait stand attachment in position. There are metal stands and springs visible in the bottom of the photograph, which are most likely part of the stand on which the portrait was displayed. Original portrait photograph shows an elderly woman with hair in a bun, wearing glasses, bead and choker necklaces, a brooch and a fur stole.

Physical Description

Black and white, half plate size copy negative on glass.

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