Agency:
Madge Ruby Jackson (Morrisby)
Agency Number:
Start Date:
01 Jan 1904
End Date:
19 Sep 1969
Description:
Madge Ruby Jackson (sometimes known as Ruby Madge Jackson) was an amateur photographer. She was born in 1904 to Harold Ross and Ruby Lillian Jackson (formerly Underwood). Madge was librarian to the Southern Tasmanian Camera Club in 1923, an active member of the Southern Tasmanian Photographic Society in the 1920s and 1930s, and the only Tasmanian to exhibit at the Victorian International Salon of Photography in 1935. She married Lancelot Consett Morrisby on 18 March 1936. Lancelot died in 1939.;;In 1937, Madge R Morrisby was awarded one of two coronation medals made available by the Governor of Tasmania for taking the best photographs in Government House grounds, as a member of the Southern Tasmanian Photographic Society.;;
Information Sources:
Chris Long, Tasmanian Photographers 1840-1940; Barbara Hall & Jenni Mather, Australian Women Photographers.;;Mercury, 5 December 1903, 18 March 1936 and 12 August 1937.
Series Created By Agency:
| NS311 Glass Plate Negatives of Miss Jackson, Family and Friends and General Views Around Hobart | 01 Jan 1900 | 31 Dec 1950 |