Photographs - Topographic
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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 …
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# 17787
WILLETTS, George
Photograph of the grave and headstone of brothers Thomas and Alfred McVeigh, Ballarat New Cemetery, circa 1873.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format (102 x 64 mm), recto imprinted ‘Willetts, Photo. Bridge Street, Ballarat’; verso with decorative lithographed back mark including the legend ‘Secure the shadow, ‘ere the substance fade’, an advertising slogan which had been made popular as early as the 1850s by daguerreotype photographers specialising in postmortem images; both the albumen …
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# 17627
KERRY & JONES [KERRY, Charles, 1857-1928; JONES, C.D.]
[COOGEE BEACH] “Peeps in Sunny New South Wales” / All Xmas Joys be Thine.
Circa 1890. Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format (mount 112 x 165 mm), recto of mount printed in gold at upper and lower margins “Peeps in Sunny New South Wales” / All Xmas Joys be Thine., and with the imprint of the Sydney photographic firm of Kerry & Jones at bottom right; verso with faint early …
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# 16764
[EMERY, N.M., compiler]; VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
An 1860s carte de visite album containing photographs of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Siam, including an unrecorded portrait of the American Mandarin Frederick Townsend Ward, and the personal card of Prince Krom of Siam.
Nineteenth century carte de visite album, 160 x 110 mm, recent blue velvet-covered boards (replacing the original leather boards, now perished), original front-endpaper inscribed by the owner ‘N.M. Emery, Shanghai 1862. Presented by Captain [?] of the Steamer Nang Kow, and whose life was sacrificed to the Chinese in a massacre, rather than yield to …
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# 16873
Photographer unknown.
An archive of photographs of Hong Kong and Canton taken by a crew member of USAT Hancock, 1901.
[Hong Kong and Canton, April 1901]. Group of 67 silver gelatin photographs taken by an anonymous photographer with a private camera, all in format 95 x 115 mm, mounted recto and verso of [19] loose leaves from an album of the period, all with the photographer’s handwritten captions in ink beneath the image; 63 of …
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# 15714
[SCOTT, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912]
An album of photographs documenting Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova expedition, 1910-1913; [together with] A manuscript plan of the Discovery, and two letters of Scott relating to the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04.
1. A rare photographic chronicle of the most celebrated expedition in the history of polar exploration, Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, officially known as the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913. Album of press photographs by various English and New Zealand agencies, 1910-1913. Small folio (310 x 220 mm), original green cloth boards (rubbed and …
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# 17134
RIDER, Andrew (& Co.)
Photograph of an oil painting of Strath Creek Falls, near Broadford, Victoria, circa 1880.
Albumen print photograph of an oil painting, cabinet card format, 165 x 107 mm, recto of mount imprinted ‘Rider & Co., Williamstown’; verso with contemporary inscription in ink ‘Strath Creek Falls, Paintted [sic] By C. Brown / Near Broadford’; in fine condition. The picturesque Strath Creek Falls, which are located between Broadford and Yea, northeast of …
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# 17194
AUSTRAL STUDIOS
Photograph of the Willaura Hotel, Western District, Victoria, circa 1915
Gelatin silver print, 146 x 200 mm, laid down on its original board mount, lower margin of mount with printed label of ‘Austral Studios, Hamilton and Casterton’; the photograph is in very good condition; the mount has some mild scattered foxing, and there is a strip of paper loss along the bottom edge. Willaura is a …
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# 17280
[ST. HELENA] Ste. Hélène. Tombeau de l’Empereur / St. Helena. The Emperor’s Tomb.
Paris : Chamray, Photog. Editeur, 25 Avenue Montaigne, [c1870]. Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format (168 x 112 mm, mount), verso with later inscription in ink: ‘This photograph was brought from St. Helena in 1852, by Frederick Banks. He was on his way to Australia & New Zealand in the “Great Britain” (Captain Grey) on …
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# 17275
UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD
Stereoview photograph of part of Canton’s red-light district, circa 1900
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 80 x 80 mm, mount 87 x 177 mm, recto with printed caption ‘A Street of “Flower Boats”, places of Amusement and debauchery, Canton, China’, imprint of Underwood & Underwood, Publishers, New York, London, etc., and ‘Copyright 1900’; verso blank; in fine condition.
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# 17274
UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD
A pair of stereoview photographs of cemeteries in Hong Kong, circa 1900
Two stereoscopic albumen print photographs, each individual image 80 x 80 mm, mounts 87 x 177 mm, rectos with printed captions ‘A Glimpse into the Parsee Cemetery, Hong Kong, China’ and ‘In the Protestant Cemetery at “Happy Valley”, Hong Kong, China’, respectively, imprint of Underwood & Underwood, Publishers, New York, London, etc., and ‘Copyright 1900’; …
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# 16726
BULMER, Howard D. (photographer)
East Gippsland and its gateway. Containing views along the Prince’s Highway, including the Lakes, Buchan Caves, etc.
Melbourne : Carter & Taverner, [1927]. First edition. Small oblong quarto, original red wraps (lightly marked), title embossed in gold, staple bound, pp. [34]; all-illustrated with full-page photographic plates (1 in colour); a good copy. The majority of the photographs are topographic; four show Indigenous people in the Lake Tyers area. The Bairnsdale-based photographer, Howard …
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# 15240
LINGWOOD SMITH, William Thomas (1860-1933)
A group of photographs of Aboriginal subjects by police photographer W.T. Lingwood Smith, South Australia and Central Australia, circa 1900.
Five photographs on early printing out paper, each approximately 100 x 145 mm, unmounted; all are outdoor shots of Aboriginal subjects (four with the photographer’s pencilled caption verso); sourced with a group of Lingwood Smith portrait photographs of South and Central Australian Aborigines in identical format, inscribed in the same hand and bearing contemporary captions in ink ‘South …
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# 16689
Photographer unknown.
Two photographic views of Malvern Downs Station, Peak Downs, Queensland, circa 1875
Two albumen print photographs, 145 x 195 mm and 115 x 195 mm, respectively, tipped-in recto of a nineteenth century gilt-edged album page of thick board, the verso of the larger print with contemporary inscription in pencil ‘Malvern Downs / Peak Downs / Queensland’; both albumen prints with mild creasing and foxing; lower margin of …
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# 15836
RIEMER, Gustav Adolph, 1842-1899
Tagebuchs-Auszug betreffend die Reise S.M.S. “Hertha” nach Ost-Asien und den Sudsee-Inseln, 1874-1877.
A great photographic rarity, Gustav Riemer’s self-published album of original photographs from the voyage of the SMS Hertha to the Far East, the Pacific and Australia includes many important ethnographic images, among them a series of portraits of Aboriginal groups taken at King George Sound, Western Australia in 1877. Teplitz : G. Riemer, 1878. Folio, original embossed …
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# 16647
Photographer unknown.
Funeral of a crew member of HMS Royal Arthur, Sydney, 1898
Silver albumen print photograph, 150 x 200 mm, laid on original board mount, 195 x 210 mm, verso with contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Sydney N.S.W. Australia. Funeral of one of my Mess mates who was crushed to death by the coal collier while coaling ship HMS Royal Arthur, 1898’; the albumen print slightly faded; the …