Photographs - Topographic
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# 24117
American & Australasian Photographic Company. [MERLIN, Beaufoy, c.1830-1873]
Photograph of the paddle steamer “Premier”, an early Sydney Harbour steam ferry, 1870-72.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 62 x 104 mm (mount), contemporary inscription in ink above image: ‘Henry Perdriau & J. Watson, owners’; verso imprinted ‘American & Australasian Photographic Company, Sydney Office, 324 George Street. Beaufoy Merlin’; the albumen print is in very good condition, with just a couple of light marks in the sky …
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# 23765
Photographer unknown.
A pair of very early stereoview photographs of Adelaide streets, circa 1860.
Both views are exceptionally early and are possibly unrecorded. They appear to have been kept together for almost 160 years, as the manuscript captions on both are written in the same contemporary hand. It is likely that the same unidentified photographer was responsible for both views. I. Adelaide, S.A. Rundle St. from Gawler Place, north …
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# 23975
Josef Lebovic Gallery
Masterpieces of Australian photography
Edited by Josef Lebovic and Joanne Cahill with the assistance of Suzette Cooke. Sydney : Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1989. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 200, illustrated. A scholarly catalogue of historical Australian photography c. 1850s – 1980s. Price list enclosed
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# 23396
[MURRAY VIEWS]
[ILLAWARRA] A bagful of views of Sublime Point N.S.W.
Gympie : Murray Views, [c. 1940]. Illustrated card, 85 x 120 mm, with lift-up flap containing a concertina fold-out with 10 black and white photographic views of Sublime Point, Bulli Pass, Austinmer and Thirroul Olympic Swimming Pool; fine condition. A lovely piece of Wollongong ephemera.
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# 23258
[MANNING & KNIGHT, attributed]
Noongar men, southwest Western Australia, circa 1868.
Albumen print photograph, 59 x 82 mm, laid down on a piece cut from a 19th century album page, contemporary caption in pencil beneath image: ‘Australian Natives armed with boomerangs’; the print is slightly faded but otherwise is in very good condition. The attribution to the Perth-based photographic partnership of Manning & Knight is based …
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# 23056
NETTLETON, Charles (1826-1902)
Sandridge Pier, Hobson’s Bay, Melbourne.
Circa 1870. [Title from contemporary inscription in ink on mount]. Albumen print photograph, 250 x 350 mm, laid down on its original 19th century album page; the print has a few tiny scattered marks in the sky area, but is otherwise in fine condition with excellent tonal range and detail. A superb large format photograph …
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# 22921
Photographer unknown.
Shop interior of W. Davies, musical instrument maker and repairer, Rundle Street, Adelaide, 1920s.
Silver gelatin print photograph, 120 x 180 mm, unmounted; verso with pencilled inscription ‘Inside W. Davies music shop Rundle St. 1920s; in fine condition with crisp detail. A fascinating glimpse into the cluttered retail showroom of W. Davies, who evidently also ran his School of Music in the same building. There is a vast array of …
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# 23023
WRIGHT, George P[arkinson]. (photographer and publisher)
Brisbane and Environs Illustrated: Twelve Views of the Scenery of the City and Neighbourhood.
Second Series … [Contents …] Photographed by Geo. P. Wright, Creek Street, (Opposite the Union Bank) Brisbane. MDCCCLXXVIII. At head of title: Under the Patronage of His Excellency the Governor. Brisbane : George P. Wright [printed by Cleghorn & Co.], 1878. Oblong folio, original half morocco over brown cloth boards with gilt lettering (boards marked and …
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# 4928
BARDWELL, William, photographer (attributed); NIVEN, F.W., lithographer
Surface Works at No.6 & No.7 Shafts. Band of Hope & Albion Consols, Ballaarat.
Registered 8th March 1868. Interior of Battery House at No. 7 Shaft. Circa 1880. Albumen print photograph of a contemporary lithographic print by F.W. Niven, 250 x 350 mm, laid down on its original album leaf of thick card, 'F.W. Niven' inscribed within the lithographed image at upper right, no photographer's imprint (but a larger …
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# 22382
CHUCK, Thomas Foster
A mother and her infant outside Alma Terrace, Moray Street, South Melbourne, circa 1875.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 102 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘The London Portrait Gallery. T. F. Chuck, Photographer … Royal Arcade, near the Fountain, Melbourne’, and contemporary inscriptions in pencil ‘Alma Terrace, Moray St. S. Melb, where Annie was born, Sep. 1st 1874, and ‘R.A. Lloyd, Russell Street’; the …
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# 22189
Photographer unknown.
Photograph of HMAS Sydney, destroyer of the German cruiser Emden, taken in 1912-13.
Silver gelatin photograph printed on card stock, 87 x 137 mm, manuscript caption in negative ‘H.M.A.S. “Sydney”‘; verso with handwritten message signed ‘J.Kennedy’, headed ‘Beerhaven, County Cork, Ireland, July 21-13’, addressed to a ‘Mrs. Richardson’; the contents of the message clearly indicate that the writer was associated with the design and outfitting of the Sydney: …
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# 22385
Photographer unknown.
[GOLD MINING] Photograph album compiled by a globetrotting mining engineer between 1900 and 1910, with his unique panoramic views of the King of the Hills mine in Western Australia, and topographical views in West Africa, Colombia, and the Caucasus, many of them documenting gold mining enterprises.
Late nineteenth century photograph album, oblong folio (280 x 370 mm), half calf over black crushed morocco ruled in gilt (heavily worn, front board detached), all edges gilt, containing a total of 150+ silver gelatin photographs (and one albumen print) mounted on thick leaves; over 50 of the photographs were taken with a special panoramic …
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# 22420
Photographer unknown.
Lyons Terrace, Sydney, N.S.W.
Circa 1868. [Title from contemporary caption in ink on mount]. Albumen print photograph, 120 x 160 mm, laid down on a section cut from an album page; a strong print in fine condition. From an album of Sydney views compiled during Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh’s Australian visit of 1867-68, which included a number of …
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# 22185
[EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, 1894-1972)
An archive of private photographs documenting the visit of HRH Edward, Prince of Wales (the future Edward VIII) to Australia and New Zealand in 1920, annotated by the Prince himself and originally forming part of his correspondence with his mistress, Freda Dudley Ward.
Group of 18 black and white photographs taken by various photographers in the Prince’s entourage during his Australasian tour in 1920, different formats to 155 x 110 mm; most are annotated verso in pencil in Edward’s own hand; one, of the Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes, bears a deprecatory caption in ink recto; the group is …
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# 21659
Photographer unknown.
Portland Harbour (Western Victoria)
[Between 1900 and 1910]. Stereographic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 80 x 80 mm, handwritten caption in the negative of the right hand print; original grey card mount; verso blank; in good condition. A splendid Federation period view of women and children enjoying the beach at Portland, in Victoria’s far southwest.
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# 22015
JOUVIN, Hippolyte (1825-1887)
[NADAR’S BALLOON] Vue instantanée de la Fête de St. Cloud. N°98. Ascension du Ballon (1)
[1863]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 80 x 76 mm (arched format), original plain yellow mount 87 x 172 mm, verso with original printed label ‘Vue instantanée de la Fête de St. Cloud. N°98. Ascension du Ballon (1)’; both albumen prints are in very good condition; verso of mount with a few light marks. This …