Photographs - Topographic
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# 44930
JONES, John H. (1817?-1872)
Traveller sleeping in a mia mia. Central or northern Victoria, circa 1862.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 74 x 73 mm (arched-top format), on original card mount 83 x 175 mm; recto of mount inscribed in ink: ‘Traveller sleeping in a mia mia’; verso with pencilled name of the original owner ‘McMillan’; both prints are in very good condition, as is the mount. This stereoscopic photograph …
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# 45074
[CORNELL, Frederick, 1834-1890, attributed]
Suite of five large-format views of Sale and East Gippsland, circa 1880.
Five albumen print photographs in uniform 215 x 270 mm format; versos with fully contemporary captions in pencil; a few edge nicks, otherwise in good condition, unmounted. The attribution to Sale-based professional photographer Frederick Cornell (1834-1890) is based on comparison with prints in the album of Cornell’s Gippsland views presented to Lady Loch in 1885, …
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# 44152
Photographer unknown
Members of the Ranken family at their homestead “Lockyersleigh”, near Goulburn, New South Wales, January 1901.
Ten printing-out-paper prints, taken with the same Kodak camera and in uniform 85 x 85 mm format; mounted on two album pages with manuscript title at head ‘Lockyersleigh, New South Wales’, and further captions naming the people in each photo and giving the date January 1901; the photos are all in good condition; the album …
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# 44914
[Photographer unknown]
Collingwood, East view.
[circa 1865]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, 77 x 72 mm each image; original buff-coloured mount, with a very faint contemporary inscription in pencil verso ‘Collingwood, East view’; the left-hand print has a couple of tiny marks, otherwise the prints are in good condition; the mount is clean and stable. An early view of Collingwood from the banks …
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# 45096
PITT, C.A.
[NORTHERN TERRITORY] Magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway
Cover title: Series of magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway, Northern Territory, Australia. Payneham, South Australia : C. A. Pitt, [c.1950]. Oblong quarto, pictorial limp wrappers (grey variant, other examples printed on yellow and red paper stocks), 16 pp, black and white photographic plates of Alice Springs, Aileron, Barrow Creek, the Devil’s Marbles, …
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# 45095
PITT, C.A.
[NORTHERN TERRITORY] Magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway
Cover title: Series of magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway, Northern Territory, Australia. Payneham, South Australia : C. A. Pitt, [c.1950]. Oblong quarto, pictorial limp wrappers (red variant, other examples printed on yellow and grey paper stocks), 16 pp, black and white photographic plates of Alice Springs, Aileron, Barrow Creek, the Devil’s Marbles, …
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# 44635
AMERICAN & AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY [LIND, James P.]
[WINE] Front view of a colonial cottage showing rows of neatly planted grape vines. Melbourne (or Beechworth?), 1869-70.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 103 mm (mount); recto of mount inscribed in ink at top edge: ‘William’s cottage’; verso with the imprint of ‘American and Australian Photographic Company. Melbourne Office, 73 Little Collins St. East’; both print and mount are in excellent condition. The American & Australian Photographic Company was …
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# 44621
BLACKWOOD (Olaf) William (1824-1897)
View from the top of Government House looking towards Campbell’s Wharf on the west side of Circular Quay, Sydney, 1858.
Large format albumen print, 190 x 270 mm, in a specially prepared mount with a translucent backing sheet and cedar frame designed for viewing in a Polyrama Panoptique (see below); the cedar frame bears an early inscription in ink: ‘Campbell’s Wharf’; the print is a little faded and has scattered foxing and a few small …
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# 44613
HAIGH, Edward
Gold washing, at the Ovens, Victoria.
[1861-1862]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 73 x 73 mm, flat yellow mount 83 x 165 mm; verso with printed label ’40. Gold washing, at the Ovens, Victoria. Ed. Haigh, Photo.’, and below this in manuscript the monogram and sequence number of the original owner ‘MAH. 72’; both prints, as well as the mount, …
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# 44548
[SCHROEDER & CIE.]
[MOUNTAINEERING] Glacier des Bossons.
[Zürich : Schroeder & Cie., 1885]. Large format albumen print, 220 x 275 mm, captioned in the negative ‘399.Glacier des Bossons’; mounted recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf; in very good condition, the mount annotated with the word ‘Switzerland’ (in error) in blue fountain pen at lower left; the verso with another albumen print in …
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# 44417
PICKERING, Charles Percy (1825-1908)
Argyle Cut, The Rocks, Sydney, circa 1872.
Large format albumen print photograph, 230 x 280 mm; captioned in negative l.r. ‘Argyle Cut’; a beautifully crisp print in fine condition, unmounted. From the DAAO: ‘Under the direction of Colonial Architect James Barnet, Pickering was commissioned by the New South Wales government in January 1871 to prepare “a number of photographic views of Sydney …
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# 44035
LINDT, John William (1845-1926)
Victorian Volunteer Artillery at the Dandenong Encampment, April 1882.
Two albumen print photographs in identical Paris Panel format, 170 x 245 mm, the rectos and versos of the matching gilt-edged mounts with the gilt imprint of J. W. Lindt, 7 Collins Street East, Melbourne; both rectos with faint contemporary inscription at left of lower margin: ‘Dandenong Encampment’, one with the additional caption ‘Gun Drill’; …
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# 44418
BAYLISS, Charles
Ships from the “Sydney Wool Fleet” at anchor in Darling Harbour. 15 September 1891.
Large format albumen print photograph, 210 x 290 mm; captioned in manuscript in the negative across the lower edge: ‘Sept. 15th 1891. Wilcannia / Rodney / Illawarra / Hubbock / Woolloomooloo / Tartar’, and with the photographer’s name ‘C. Bayliss Photo.’ at lower right; in good condition, laid down on the original card mount removed …
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# 44089
JARRATT, A. E. (Albert Ellingworth) (1886-1962)
Two panoramic costal views taken at Lorne, Victoria, circa 1920.
Two gelatin silver print photographs taken with the same panoramic camera, in 90 x 250 mm format; laid down on original textured card mounts with photographer’s signature in pencil at lower right ‘A. E. Jarratt’; both prints and both mounts are in virtually pristine condition. Lorne resident A. E. Jarratt (1886-1962) was for many years …
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# 44148
CAIRE, Nicholas John (1837-1918) (ANGLO-AUSTRALASIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY)
The Melbourne Club, Collins Street East, late 1870s.
Albumen print photograph, 135 x 190 mm, on the photographer’s original card mount with printed caption below the image and descriptive text verso; titled ‘The Melbourne Club House’, this is no. 35. from Caire’s portfolio series ‘The Public Buildings of Melbourne and Suburbs’; the print and the mount are both in fine condition. The Melbourne Club …
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# 44088
Photographer unknown.
Large social outing on Mount Korong, central Victoria, circa 1900.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 112 x 152 mm, laid down on its original grey card mount, 128 x 188 mm; verso inscribed in a slightly later hand ‘Mount Korong’; fine condition. Despite the fact that it was probably taken by an amateur photographer, this is a fabulous outdoor photograph: the more you look, the more …