Photographs - Topographic

# 18808

Photographer unknown.

View of Ruthven Street, Toowoomba, Queensland, late 1890s

Albumen print photograph, 260 x 370 mm, no photographer’s imprint; verso with faint contemporary pencil inscription ‘Ruthven Street, Toowoomba’; unmounted; tiny loss at bottom right corner, otherwise a superb print with beautiful tones and sharp detail. A wonderful, large format view of Ruthven Street looking south, with much of the street signage legible. Prominent businesses …

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# 18043

Photographer unknown.

A German plantation owner’s wife with native servants and horses, Neu-Mecklenburg (New Ireland), circa 1910

Large format photographic magic lantern glass slide, 90 x 120 mm, the mount with paper label bearing contemporary manuscript caption in German ‘Matantetuk, Westküste v. Neu-Mecklenburg (Pferde)’ and the imprint of the Bavarian magic lantern firm Lichtbild-Anstalt G. Bachschmid, Kempten-Allgäu; in superb condition. This photograph, showing a scene on a copra plantation on the west …

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# 19165

Photographer unknown.

Premises of F. Fox, Butcher. South Australia, early 1860s.

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 63 x 65 mm (rounded corners), on original flat mount of white card, 80 x 175 mm; the albumen prints are somewhat faded and lightly marked, as is the mount. This early Australian stereoscopic photograph shows a two-storey colonial brick building with a shop sign that reads ‘F. Fox, Butcher’. …

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# 18142

THE LIVERPOOL DRY PLATE AND PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY

[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] The Liverpool Dry Plate and Photographic Printing Company. Price list of Collodio-Bromide plates.

Liverpool, U.K. : Henry Greenwood, Printer, [1873]. Octavo sheet, 200 x 125 mm, printed recto only; [together with] the original covering letter relating to the price list, in manuscript on the company letterhead, octavo, 2 pp, written by the owner Peter Mawdsley to an American customer, George May Powell, dated 6 September 1873, explaining the …

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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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# 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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# 16652

CAIRE, Nicholas J. (1837-1918)

[MELBOURNE] The Benevolent Asylum.

[1877-78]. Albumen print photograph, 150 x 205 mm, laid down on original card mount, 245 x 300 mm, recto with printed caption beneath image: ‘The Benevolent Asylum’; verso with imprint of ‘Anglo-Australian Photographic Company. N.J. Caire, Photo., No. 2 Sherwood Street, Richmond’, and series title and number ‘The Public Buildings of Melbourne and Suburbs. No. 10. …

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# 14805

Photographer unknown.

Aerial view of the Meat Works, Myilly Point and Point Emery, Darwin, circa 1925

Black and white photograph on printing out paper, 85 x 135 mm, handwritten caption in the negative 'The Meat Works, Myilly Point & Point Emery, Darwin'; fine condition.

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# 14802

BUSCALL, Jack

Meridian ant hills, Northern Territory, circa 1925

Black and white photograph on glossy printing out paper, 90 x 140 mm, handwritten caption in negative 'Meridian ant hills'; verso wet stamped 'Jack Buscall, Darwin, N.A. [i.e. Northern Australia]'; in fine condition. Photographs taken by Jack Buscall are held in the collections of the National Library of Australia and the Northern Territory Library.

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# 14251

SYDNEY MAIL NEWSPAPER

Loading blocks of granodiorite to be used in constructing the pylons of the Harbour Bridge. Moruya.

[Sydney] : Sydney Mail, [between 1925 and 1931]. Panoramic photograph from two gelatin silver prints, 143 x 340 mm, laid down on its original board mount; verso with wet stamp ‘Copyright Photograph by “Sydney Mail”‘; the gelatin prints are in very good condition; accompanied by contemporary card inscribed ‘Loading blocks of granodiorite to be used …

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# 13637

METCALFE & BENNETT

[PHOTOGRAPHIC MONTAGE] Queensland in Miniature

1878-79. Albumen print of a photographic montage, cabinet card format, 107 x 165 mm, captioned in the negative at lower margin Queensland in Miniature, and with the photographers' studio information at the centre of the image, Metcalfe & Bennett, Artist Photographers, Queen Street, Brisbane; the verso is blank; the albumen print is in good condition …

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# 11436

WATSON & WEDD

Scotch Church, Mount Gambier

Late 1860s. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 95 x 62 mm, verso imprinted 'Photographed by Watson & Wedd, Mount Gambier' and with contemporary inscription in ink 'Scotch Church, Mt. Gambier'; the albumen print lightly rubbed, the verso of the mount with mild foxing and slightly trimmed at top and bottom edges. Davies & …

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# 10331

Queensland. Government Intelligence and Tourist Bureau.

Glimpses of sunny Queensland

Issued by the Queensland Government Intelligence & Tourist Bureau. Brisbane : Government Printer, [1911?]. Second edition. Oblong octavo (120 x 185 mm), original pictorial wrappers (small amount of paper loss at foot of spine), 64 leaves of captioned photographic plates; a near fine copy.

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# 9928

Photographer unknown.

Twelve photographic views of Sydney, circa 1890

Twelve albumen print photographs, each 140 x 200 mm, mounted recto and verso of three nineteenth century album pages, contemporary captions in French beneath most of the images, all are strong prints in fine condition, the pages free from foxing. Includes three superb views of Circular Quay; another of the harbour from Lavender Bay, and …

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# 9905

PAINE, John 1833-1908, attributed

Balmain from Observatory Hill

Circa 1880. Albumen print photograph, 115 x 185 mm, laid down on a section of its original album page of thin card, the albumen print in fine condition with rich tonal range. A lovely view across Darling Harbour, with terrace houses in Kent Street in the foreground.

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# 7978

Photographer unknown. [RYDER, George 1905-1989)

[HORSE RACING] Artesian bore, Ryder’s Paddock, Hunter Valley, New South Wales, circa 1930

Three sepia tone photographs on printing out paper with celluloid coating, each 200 x 150 mm, laid down on their original board mounts, versos of mounts with contemporary inscriptions in pencil: 'Bore at G. Ryder's paddock'; 'Bore at G. Ryder's new house'; 'Mountain bore (H. Ryder's)'; one of the prints with foxing, the mounts with …

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