Photographs - Topographic
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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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# 22786
Photographer unknown.
View of the first Union Club (formerly Robert Campbell junior’s residence), Bligh Street, Sydney.
Circa 1868. Albumen print photograph, 123 x 163 mm, laid down on a section cut from an album page, with a contemporary inscription in ink above the image ‘Union Club, Sydney, N.S.W.’; 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, …
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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 …
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# 22014
WILSON, George Washington (1823-1893)
H.M.S. “Impregnable,” 104 Guns – Guard-ship in Hamoaze. No. 313 D.
[Circa 1860]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 73 x 73 mm, original plain yellow mount 85 x 174 mm, verso with original printed label ‘H.M.S. “Impregnable,” 104 Guns – Guard-ship in Hamoaze. No. 313 D. / G. W. Wilson, Photographer, Aberdeen’; both albumen prints are in good condition (some light rubbing and toning), with …
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# 22013
WILSON, George Washington (1823-1893)
Stonehenge – Near View from the South. No. 210.
[Circa 1860]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 73 x 73 mm, original plain yellow mount 85 x 174 mm, verso with original printed label ‘Stonehenge – Near View from the South. No. 210 / G. W. Wilson, Photographer, Aberdeen’; both albumen prints are in very good condition (a few toning spots), with rich tonal …
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# 21645
F.G. RADCLIFFE (publisher)
[SPELEOLOGY] Waitomo, Ruakuri and Aranui, New Zealand. “The most beautiful caves in the world.”
Whangarei, NZ : F.G. Radcliffe [c.1910]. Small oblong quarto, original silver-lettered grey wrappers and green ties, [24] pp, all monochrome photographic illustrations; a pristine copy.
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# 21617
Hong Kong Harbour & Victoria City from The Peak.
[Hong Kong : s.n., c.1920]. Real photo postcard. Gelatin silver print on card stock, 87 x 137 mm, titled in the negative along with sequence number ’42’; verso printed ‘Post Card’ (without publisher’s imprint); not postally used; pin hole at top edge centre, tiny surface blemish towards left edge centre, else fine condition.
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# 21602
Photographer unknown.
Photograph of the Repulse Bay Hotel, Hong Kong, circa 1930.
Original gelatin silver print on matte paper, 80 x 130 mm; taken by an unidentified amateur photographer, inscribed in ink verso: ‘Repulse Bay with Hotel in background. Hong Kong’; fine condition.
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# 21318
Anon.
Photographs of British colonials and local Malays on Bukit Hitam rubber plantation, Selangor, Malaysia, circa 1910.
Group of 21 gelatin silver photographs, most in format 80 x 100 mm (some 135 x 85 mm), mounted recto and verso of 3 album leaves removed from a disbound album; the album owner’s handwritren captions to pages, identifying a number of the people in the photographs (we know the compiler of the album was …