Caroline Simpson Collection

The "smoke room" at Bangoola, Mosman, 1912 / photographer unknown

1912

1 photoprint : b&w ; 14.5 x 19.5 cm.

Caption under the photograph: 'Smoke Room'.

Bangoola (Mosman, N.S.W.)
domestic interiors
card tables
light fittings

This photograph is one of 13 contained in an album titled 'Bangoola" /
Mosman / 1912".
In 1912 the house Bangoola was the home of Paul Schreiterer (1868-
1939), a German-born woolbuyer, his wife Ida (nee Smith) and their
six children, of whom the youngest was born around the same time
that this photograph was taken. The house had been built for the
Schreiterers around 1905 and it remained the family home for many
years.
Although Schreiterer had settled in Australia in 1893, and married an
Australian woman, his house was the target of an anti-German attack
in January 1917, during the First World War. The Sun newspaper
reported that "a large gelignite bomb" was thrown into the cellar
basement of the house causing extensive damage. [ref: The Sun 7
January 1917 p.4]

Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; photograph album: Bangoola, Mosman

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