Photographs - Topographic

# 6964

Anon.

Meeting of Flinders & Baudin, Encounter Bay SA

[Melbourne?] : maker unknown, [circa 1902]. Glass magic lantern slide, 80 x 80 mm, with a photograph of the plaque commemorating the meeting of Flinders and Baudin in Encounter Bay in 1802 (unveiled April 8, 1902). The glass slide is in fine condition; a later typed caption label to top edge.

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# 6387

CHASE, Henry L. (attributed)

Capt. Cook’s monument. Kona – Hawaii

Circa 1880. Albumen print photograph, 180 x 230 mm, laid down on its original album leaf of thick card, handwritten caption in negative ‘555. Capt. Cook’s monument. Kona – Hawaii’, the print in very good condition with sharp detail and rich tones, the mount clean.

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# 6148

New South Wales. Government Printing Office. [PICKERING, Charles, attributed]

[SYDNEY] Mort’s Floating Dock.

Circa 1870. Albumen print photograph, 200 x 250 mm, unmounted, verso with contemporary inscription: ‘Mort’s floating dock’, some light creasing, but a sharply detailed print with rich tonal range. This photograph was sourced with a group that included similar format prints of the interior of the New South Wales Government Printing Office, strong evidence to …

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# 5971

PAINE, John 1833-1908, attributed

Neutral Bay, Sydney Harbour

Circa 1880. Albumen print photograph, 115 x 185 mm, laid down on a section of its original album page of thin card, contemporary caption in pencil across lower margin, the albumen print in excellent condition, the card with some very mild toning. This view, looking across the harbour from the heights of Neutral Bay to …

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# 5324

DUFTY BROS.

A view in the native town of Buretta, Fiji

Albumen print photograph, 210 x 270 mm, laid down on original album leaf of thin card, contemporary pencilled inscription to lower margin: 'Dufty Bros. Photographers / A view in the native town of Buretta [Bureta], Fiji'; a second contemporary inscription verso reads: 'Fidji [sic]. Dufty Bros.' the albumen print is in fine condition with excellent …

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# 4279

KERRY, Charles

The harbour. Tonga.

Circa 1900. Albumen print photograph, 150 x 210 mm, laid down on contemporary board mount (some chipping along right hand edge of mount), inscribed in negative at lower edge 2205. The Harbour. Tonga and Kerry. Photo. Sydney. The print is slightly pale but in very good condition. The glass negative of this print is held …

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# 3451

Associated Press [Photographer unknown]

Atomic bomb test, Monte Bello Islands, Western Australia, 1952

Press photograph from the archives of the Baltimore Sun newspaper (image 150 x 205 mm; overall dimensions 210 x 250 mm), with date stamp verso (OCT 25 1952), and accompanying description: 'This official photo, one of a series released for the first time today by British Information Services, shows one of the final stages of …

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# 3240

Associated Press [Photographer unknown]

Atomic bomb test, Monte Bello Islands, Western Australia, 16 May 1956

Press photograph, 210 x 180 mm, verso with date stamp MAY 17 1956, and paste-down newspaper clipping from an American newspaper: ‘Near Monte Bello, off West Australia – This cloud took shape yesterday. The British Supply Ministry announced an “atomic device” had been detonated‘. The British Government tested its first nuclear weapon in Australia at …

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# 1733

WRIGHT, Thomas, 1830-1881 (artist)

[PHOTOGRAPH] Oil painting of a scene on the Waipunga River, New Zealand

Circa 1870. Albumen print photograph (220 x 280 mm) of an oil painting, laid down on original album page (ink stains within the negative, edges of the page stained), signature appears on painting at lower left: T. Wright. Photographer unknown. The painting has been identified as Scene on the Waipunga River, New Zealand, by Thomas Wright, which …

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# 7812

KERRY, Charles, 1857-1928

[BLUE MOUNTAINS] Ball Room, Jenolan / Entrance, Jenolan Caves

Circa 1889. Two albumen print photographs, each 150 x 210 mm, laid down on their original album leaf of thick card, contemporary calligraphic captions in red ink to the mount beneath each image, “Ball Room, Jenolan” / “Entrance, Jenolan Caves”; the prints are in good condition, with some light motting from the printing process; the …

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# 7813

KERRY, Charles, 1857-1928

[BLUE MOUNTAINS] Devil’s Coach House / Jenolan Caves

Circa 1889. Two albumen print photographs, each 210 x 150 mm, laid down on their original album leaf of thick card, contemporary calligraphic captions in red ink to the mount beneath each image, “Devil’s Coach House” / “Jenolan Caves” [Carlotta’s Arch]; the prints are in good condition, with slight loss of contrast and some light …

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# 1336

BATCHELDER & CO.

Congregational Church, East Melbourne, circa 1870

Albumen print photograph of a drawing, carte de visite format (104 x 63 mm), captioned ‘Congregational Church’ at lower left, photographer’s studio imprint recto and verso ‘Batchelder & Co., Photo 41 Collins St East, Melbourne’. In 1870 the studios of Batchelder & Co. were only a ten minute stroll from this church building, which still …

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# 1269

Photographer unknown

[MARITIME] Collision of HMAS Melbourne and USS Frank E. Evans

Associated Press photograph (235 x 185 mm) with typed caption, dated verso June 10 1969. During SEATO excercises in the South China Sea on June 3 1969, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collided with the USN destroyer Frank E. Evans, resulting in the tragic loss of 74 of the Evans' crew. In spite of …

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# 669

Bardwell, Melbourne

S.S. Austral, sunk in Sydney Harbour, 1882

Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format (150 x 105 mm). Photographic studio details printed recto; inscribed in ink in period hand verso: “S.S. Austral, Orient Line. Sunk in Sydney Harbour about 1881.”

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