Photographs - Topographic
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# 19106
Photographer unknown.
The Murray River paddle steamer “Ruby” at the landing place, Mildura, circa 1890
Albumen print photograph, 150 x 200 mm, laid down on its original nineteenth-century album page of thin card, captioned in ink beneath image ‘The landing place, Mildura, Melbourne [sic]’; a strong print in fine condition (some mottling in the original negative); on the same mount are 3 other albumen prints in identical format (1 recto, …
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# 19110
Photographer unknown.
“Hobart Town and Franklin” coach (and passengers) on the Huon Road, Tasmania, circa 1890
Albumen print photograph, 175 x 210 mm, laid down on its original nineteenth-century album page of thin card, captioned in ink beneath image ‘View on Huon Road, Tasmania’; a very strong print in fine condition; on the same mount are 3 other albumen prints in identical format (1 recto, 2 verso) showing views of New …
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# 18626
THE ECLIPSE PHOTO COMPANY [G.B.D. KITCH & CO.]
A family posing outside their house, Sunny Corner, central west New South Wales, circa 1890
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 113 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘The Eclipse Photo Compy., G.B.D. Kitch & Co., Sunny Corner’; the albumen print is in fine condition and has great detail; the mount with a small mark to the margin recto, otherwise also fine. Sunny Corner, originally a coal …
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# 18809
Photographer unknown.
View of Bourbong Street, Bundaberg, Queensland, late 1890s
Albumen print photograph, 240 x 370 mm, no photographer’s imprint; verso with later pencil inscription ‘Main street, Bundaberg’; unmounted; a superb print with beautiful tones and sharp detail; the small white fleck at upper left is in the negative. A large format view of Bourbong Street looking west, with the Post Office in the distance. …
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# 18808
Photographer unknown.
View of Ruthven Street, Toowoomba, Queensland, late 1890s
Albumen print photograph, 260 x 370 mm, no photographer’s imprint; verso with faint contemporary pencil inscription ‘Ruthven Street, Toowoomba’; unmounted; tiny loss at bottom right corner, otherwise a superb print with beautiful tones and sharp detail. A wonderful, large format view of Ruthven Street looking south, with much of the street signage legible. Prominent businesses …
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# 18043
Photographer unknown.
A German plantation owner’s wife with native servants and horses, Neu-Mecklenburg (New Ireland), circa 1910
Large format photographic magic lantern glass slide, 90 x 120 mm, the mount with paper label bearing contemporary manuscript caption in German ‘Matantetuk, Westküste v. Neu-Mecklenburg (Pferde)’ and the imprint of the Bavarian magic lantern firm Lichtbild-Anstalt G. Bachschmid, Kempten-Allgäu; in superb condition. This photograph, showing a scene on a copra plantation on the west …
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# 18812
CLIFFORD, Samuel (1827-1890)
A volunteer infantry unit on parade at Angelsea Barracks, Hobart Town, circa 1867
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 62 x 104 mm, recto imprinted ‘Samuel Clifford’ at right margin of mount, verso with Clifford’s back mark featuring an illustration of the medal awarded to him at the Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition, 1866, for ‘Architectural & Landscape Photography’, and also mentioning his exhibit at the New Zealand Exhibition (Dunedin) in …
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# 18894
Photographer unknown.
A Gothic view of Tolroy Manor, near Hayle, West Cornwall, early 1860s
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 65 mm (mount), recto with original owner’s wet stamp ‘F.W. Hellard’ at bottom margin, verso with faint pencilled inscription in period hand ‘Tolroy’; no photographer’s imprint; the albumen print is in good condition, with a few light marks; the mount is free from foxing. A magnificent, early …
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# 18819
NETTLETON, Charles (1826-1902), attributed
Swanston Street, looking south from Bourke Street. Melbourne, circa 1872
Albumen print photograph, 135 x 187 mm, laid down recto of original album leaf of thin card; no photographer’s imprint; tiny amount of loss at bottom left corner, otherwise the albumen print is in fine condition; some foxing to the mount; verso with identical format photograph, pencilled caption beneath ‘Museum & University, Melbourne’; in very …
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# 18857
MASON, Ernest
Premises of A. Dean, coachbuilder and blacksmith. Goulburn, New South Wales, circa 1900
Albumen silver print photograph, 153 x 208 mm, laid down on its original board mount; lower margin of mount wet stamped ‘Ernest Mason / 211 Auburn Street Goulburn’; the print is in fine condition; the mount has a tear at bottom right corner. Clearly taken before the advent of the motorcar in the Southern Tablelands, this …
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# 17893
NETTLETON, Charles (1826-1902)
Melbourne illustrated by photographs. First series.
Melbourne : Charles Nettleton, 1868. Oblong quarto, original tan pebbled cloth boards with blind decoration (upper board darkened around the edges, worn at corners and head and tail of spine), front pastedown with binder’s ticket of William Detmold, Collins Street, Melbourne; front hinge cracked; all edges gilt; lithographed title leaf on thin paper followed by …
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# 18445
CLARK BROS.
Horse team hauling timber, probably Western District, Victoria, 1890s.
Silver albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 110 x 165 mm (mount), verso with wet stamp of ‘Clark Bros. Photographers, 25 Thomas St. Windsor’; the albumen print is in fine condition with beautiful rich tones and sharp detail. Surviving examples of images by Clark Bros., whose premises were located close to St. Kilda Junction, suggest …
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# 18275
Photographer unknown.
An early colliery in Lithgow, New South Wales, circa 1870.
Albumen print photograph, 115 x 185 mm, unmounted; verso with contemporary inscription in pencil ‘Lithgow’; no photographer’s imprint; 15 mm edge tear bottom right, otherwise in fine condition, with excellent tonal range and superb detail of the colliery’s infrastructure (chimney, chute and kiln), 11 employees and their dog, and the scarified and partially denuded hillside …
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# 18110
PATERSON BROTHERS
View of Rolland’s Pier Hotel, Williamstown, Melbourne, circa 1875.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 62 x 102 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘Paterson Brothers, Portrait Rooms, 12 Bourke St. East, Melbourne’; both the albumen print and mount are in fine condition. A superb unrecorded photograph of the Pier Hotel, Williamstown, Felix W. Rolland, proprietor. The detail is extremely sharp and all the …
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# 18142
THE LIVERPOOL DRY PLATE AND PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] The Liverpool Dry Plate and Photographic Printing Company. Price list of Collodio-Bromide plates.
Liverpool, U.K. : Henry Greenwood, Printer, [1873]. Octavo sheet, 200 x 125 mm, printed recto only; [together with] the original covering letter relating to the price list, in manuscript on the company letterhead, octavo, 2 pp, written by the owner Peter Mawdsley to an American customer, George May Powell, dated 6 September 1873, explaining the …
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# 17859
Photographer unknown.
Group of photographs of Coolgardie, Western Australian goldfields, 1901.
Four silver albumen print photographs, in identical format 110 x 150 mm, mounted recto and verso of a page removed from a travel album, all with an accompanying manuscript caption by the photographer and with a date of 1901; they show the Vale of Coolgardie Mine, Bonnievale; Lake View Mine; interior of the Church of …