Photographs - Topographic

  • View of Rundle Street, Adelaide, circa 1864.

    # 45866

    GOODE, Bernard (1834-1897)

    View of Rundle Street, Adelaide, circa 1864.

    Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 72 x 62 mm (octagonal format), original yellow card mount 85 x 173 mm, verso with small printed label ‘B. Goode, Photographer, 69, Rundle Street, Adelaide’, and a manuscript caption in ink ‘Rundle Street’; both prints are in good condition; the mount has some light handling marks. This view …

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  • View of the Market Square, Geelong, Victoria late 1860s.

    # 45863

    [Photographer unknown].

    View of the Market Square, Geelong, Victoria late 1860s.

    Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 82 x 82 mm (arch-top format), on original yellow card mount, 84 x 173 mm; the verso has a mounted label with the word ‘Geelong’ and a double border in gold (it is evident that this has been cut from a larger label); light surface marks to the …

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  • The "Gothic Bank" building, corner of Collins and Queen Streets, Melbourne, circa 1950.

    # 45851

    CATO, Jack (1889-1971)

    The “Gothic Bank” building, corner of Collins and Queen Streets, Melbourne, circa 1950.

    Large-format gelatin silver print photograph, 460 x 370 mm; on the original board mount, signed in full by the photographer beneath the image; a touch of silverfishing at the bottom edge of the print, else fine condition; in a later gazed timber frame. An evocative early post-war Melbourne street view by photographer and photographic historian …

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  • The Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, circa 1950.

    # 45852

    CATO, Jack (1889-1971)

    The Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, circa 1950.

    Large-format gelatin silver print photograph, 460 x 370 mm; on the original board mount, signed in full by the photographer beneath the image; a touch of silverfishing at the edges of the print, else fine condition; in a later gazed timber frame. An early post-war view of an iconic Melbourne building, by photographer and photographic …

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  • [MELBOURNE] The Wesley College.

    # 45857

    CAIRE, Nicholas John (1837-1918) (ANGLO-AUSTRALASIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY)

    [MELBOURNE] The Wesley College.

    [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 Wesley College’, this is no. 27. from Caire’s portfolio series ‘The Public Buildings of Melbourne and Suburbs’; the print and the mount are both in fine condition.  

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  • A couple posing on the verandah of their double-fronted timber cottage. Melbourne, 1869-70.

    # 45814

    AMERICAN & AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY [LIND, James P.]

    A couple posing on the verandah of their double-fronted timber cottage. Melbourne, 1869-70.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 103 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘American and Australian Photographic Company. Melbourne Office, 73 Little Collins St. East’; both print and mount are in superb condition. The American & Australian Photographic Company was the Melbourne arm of the American & Australasian Photographic Company (note the …

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  • A game of croquet in progress. Geelong, Victoria, circa 1875.

    # 44664

    [Photographer unknown]

    A game of croquet in progress. Geelong, Victoria, circa 1875.

    Albumen print photograph, 140 x 200 mm, on its original card mount with printed red border; the print has some fading at the right-hand edge but is otherwise in very good condition; the mount is clean and stable. This photograph was sourced as part of a group of albumen prints taken in the mid 1870s …

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  • Whaling scene at Twofold Bay, Eden, New South Wales, 1870.

    # 45527

    WALTER, Charles (Carl) (1831-1907)

    Whaling scene at Twofold Bay, Eden, New South Wales, 1870.

    Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 82 x 82 mm (square format), signed and numbered by the photographer at lower right of the right-hand image ‘C. Walter 166’; on original black card mount, 87 x 177 mm, verso blank; slight loss of contrast in the upper part of each image, otherwise the prints are …

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  • Traveller sleeping in a mia mia. Central or northern Victoria, circa 1862.

    # 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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  • Suite of five large-format views of Sale and East Gippsland, circa 1880.

    # 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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  • Collingwood, East view.

    # 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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  • [NORTHERN TERRITORY] Magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway

    # 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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  • [NORTHERN TERRITORY] Magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway

    # 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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  • [WINE] Front view of a colonial cottage showing rows of neatly planted grape vines. Melbourne (or Beechworth?), 1869-70.

    # 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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  • View from the top of Government House looking towards Campbell's Wharf on the west side of Circular Quay, Sydney, 1858.

    # 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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  • Gold washing, at the Ovens, Victoria.

    # 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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