Photographs - Topographic

  • [NEW CALEDONIA] Archive of original photographs taken by a German geologist, documenting mining, interactions with indigenous people, and the landscape in New Caledonia's North Province, 1930-31.

    # 50453

    "J. O. H." (photographer and compiler)

    [NEW CALEDONIA] Archive of original photographs taken by a German geologist, documenting mining, interactions with indigenous people, and the landscape in New Caledonia’s North Province, 1930-31.

    Group of 58 (fifty-eight) gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 80 x 110 mm format, all neatly mounted on green paper backing sheets, 140 x 210 mm, each with the meticulous cataloguing of the photographer in the form of typed information in German, including in the upper margin a main heading ‘Neu-Kaledonien’ and a sub-heading, …

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  • A Melbourne family posed outside their mansion (possibly on St. Kilda Road), c.1895.

    # 50406

    DE PINNA, Prof. Francis "Frank"

    A Melbourne family posed outside their mansion (possibly on St. Kilda Road), c.1895.

    Large format silver albumen print, 230 x 285 mm, on photographer’s studio mount of brown card with gilt decorative border and imprint: ‘Prof. de Pinna / Melb.’; both the print and the mount are in excellent condition. Relatively little is known about Prof. Francis “Frank” de Pinna, artist, musician and photographer (1864-1914), although he was …

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  • [RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; digging an irrigation channel; harvesting wine grapes; view of a rural property with windmill pump. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.

    # 50408

    ROSSELL, Henry Norman

    [RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; digging an irrigation channel; harvesting wine grapes; view of a rural property with windmill pump. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.

    Group of 4 (four) printing-out-paper print photographs, in panoramic format, each 100 x 200 mm; versos all wet-stamped in violet ‘H. Norman Rossell, Photographer, Renmark’, three have the photographer’s pencilled sequence number, and one – showing workers with a steam engine clearing the land – is annotated (by Rossell?): ‘The trees in background are Mallee …

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  • [RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; workers in citrus fruit orchard. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.

    # 50409

    ROSSELL, Henry Norman

    [RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; workers in citrus fruit orchard. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.

    Group of 4 (four) printing-out-paper print photographs, in small format, each 75 x 100 mm; versos all wet-stamped in violet ‘H. Norman Rossell, Photographer, Renmark’; all of the prints are in very good condition (unmounted). Trove locates no photographs by Rossell in Australian institutional collections. From Rossell’s obituary in The Chronicle (Adelaide), 12 November 1897: …

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  • Views in Japan, India, & China

    # 48431

    BEATO, Felix; FLOYD, William Pryor; BOURNE, Samuel

    Views in Japan, India, & China

    [1867-1870]. Photograph album, large oblong folio (320 x 480 mm), original red morocco richly gilt (worn at corners and spine ends), upper board lettered in gilt ‘Views in Japan, India, & China’; all edges gilt; moire pastedowns and endpapers; verso of front free-endpaper with the inscription of the original owner Frederick Woods, dated July 1871; …

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  • Two views of Fitzroy Falls, Moss Vale, New South Wales, c.1890.

    # 50370

    [NEW SOUTH WALES. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE]

    Two views of Fitzroy Falls, Moss Vale, New South Wales, c.1890.

    Two large format albumen print photographs, each 230 x 280 mm, both captioned in the negative at lower right ‘Fitzroy Falls, Moss Vale’; both in fine condition, unmounted. Fitzroy Falls is an 80-metre waterfall located in what is now the Morton National Park in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, just southeast of …

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  • Tree Fern, Botanical Gardens, Sydney (1856-1860)

    # 50397

    MORESBY, Matthew Fortescue (1828-1918)

    Tree Fern, Botanical Gardens, Sydney (1856-1860)

    Wet plate collodion print, 200 x 155 mm, signed in the negative lower left ‘M. F. Moresby’; on section cut from a mid-19th-century album leaf, with the photographer’s pencilled caption on the mount below the image: ‘Tree Fern, Botanical Gardens, Sydney’; the print has excellent clarity and tonal range, and is in very good condition; …

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  • Norfolk Id. Pine, Bot: Garden, Sydney (1856-1860)

    # 50449

    MORESBY, Matthew Fortescue (1828-1918)

    Norfolk Id. Pine, Bot: Garden, Sydney (1856-1860)

    Wet plate collodion print, 220 x 265 mm, signed in the negative lower left ‘M. F. Moresby’; mounted on a section cut from a mid-19th-century album leaf (glued at top right and bottom right corners only), with the photographer’s caption in ink across the bottom of the image: ‘Norfolk Id. Pine, Bot: Garden, Sydney’; the …

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  • Panorama of the Georges Head Battery and Sydney Harbour, looking across to North and South Head, 1874-75.

    # 40306

    BAYLISS, Charles (1850-1897)

    Panorama of the Georges Head Battery and Sydney Harbour, looking across to North and South Head, 1874-75.

    Two albumen print photographs, in identical 220 x 290 mm format, window-mounted side-by-side to form a contiguous two-part panorama; some light creasing, else very good condition. Two large-format prints forming a panorama of the Georges Head Battery looking east toward the Heads, and capturing the spectacular sweep of the harbour in the middle ground. Bayliss …

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  • [SYDNEY] View of the New South Wales Parliament, Macquarie Street, c.1870.

    # 50313

    DEGOTARDI, John (1823-1882) (attributed)

    [SYDNEY] View of the New South Wales Parliament, Macquarie Street, c.1870.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 100 mm (mount); verso blank (i.e. without photographer’s imprint); both the print and the mount are in very good condition. New South Wales Parliament House is the oldest public building in continual use in Australia, having formerly been the northern wing of Governor Macquarie’s Rum Hospital, completed …

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  • Circular Quay on a holiday. Sydney, c.1895

    # 50373

    KERRY, Charles

    Circular Quay on a holiday. Sydney, c.1895

    Albumen print photograph, 150 x 200 mm, captioned in the negative at lower left ‘1682. Circular Quay on a holiday’, and with the blind stamp of ‘Kerry & Co. Photo., 308 Geo. St. Sydney Copyright’; mounted recto of a 19th-century album leaf of thick card, with manuscript caption to lower margin; in fine condition; verso …

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  • Three views in the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, New South Wales, c.1890.

    # 50372

    [NEW SOUTH WALES. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE]

    Three views in the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, New South Wales, c.1890.

    Three large format albumen print photographs, each 230 x 280 mm, with captions in the negative; one print with a couple of nicks to top edge, otherwise all in fine condition, unmounted.

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  • The Hotel Metropole, Sydney, c.1890.

    # 50407

    KERRY, Charles

    The Hotel Metropole, Sydney, c.1890.

    Albumen print photograph, 150 x 200 mm, blind stamp of ‘Kerry & Co. Photo., 308 Geo. St. Sydney Copyright’; mounted recto of a 19th-century album leaf of thick card, with manuscript caption to lower margin: ‘Hotel Metropole, where Murch and I stopped 1st time. Sydney’; in fine condition; verso with another albumen print in similar …

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  • [THYLACINE; GOLD RUSH] Display of gold from the Colony of Victoria at the International Exhibition, London, 1862

    # 40072

    LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY

    [THYLACINE; GOLD RUSH] Display of gold from the Colony of Victoria at the International Exhibition, London, 1862

    London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 1862. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, 80 x 80 mm each image (arched format), on yellow mount 84 x 173 mm; recto with printed title: The International Exhibition of 1862: No. 141 – N. E. Transcept, and Australian Gold Case; under magnification, the sign on the case reads: The Stamping Machine / Victoria …

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  • Schoolboys playing cricket and leapfrog outside the Camberwell Common School building, Melbourne, c.1867.

    # 49964

    PATERSON BROTHERS

    Schoolboys playing cricket and leapfrog outside the Camberwell Common School building, Melbourne, c.1867.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 104 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Paterson Brothers, Photographic Artists. Portrait Rooms, 8 Bourke St. East, Melbourne’; both the print and the mount are in fine condition. A very early colonial cricket photograph.  The Camberwell Common School opened on 19 August 1867, roughly on …

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  • View looking east across Woolloomooloo Bay to Potts Point, with the mansion "Bomera" prominent, early 1870s.

    # 50172

    DEGOTARDI, John (1823-1882) (attributed)

    View looking east across Woolloomooloo Bay to Potts Point, with the mansion “Bomera” prominent, early 1870s.

    Albumen print photograph, 128 x 190 mm; laid down recto of a 19th-century album leaf with a fully contemporary caption beneath: Potts Point, Woolomoloo [sic]; a very stromg print with rich tonal range, in excellent condition. A rare early photograph of the magnificent Potts Point mansion “Bomera”, which was built in 1856 by architect John …

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