Photographs - Topographic

  • View of Greensborough, northeast of Melbourne, c.1930.

    # 50173

    [Photographer unknown].

    View of Greensborough, northeast of Melbourne, c.1930.

    Sepia carbon print photograph, in very large 240 x 500 mm format; pencilled caption verso reads ‘Greens Borough’ [sic]; in fine condition, unmounted.

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  • View of Clifton Springs on the Bellarine Peninsula, southwest of Melbourne, c.1930.

    # 50174

    [Photographer unknown].

    View of Clifton Springs on the Bellarine Peninsula, southwest of Melbourne, c.1930.

    Sepia carbon print photograph, in very large 240 x 500 mm format; pencilled caption verso reads ‘Clifton Springs’; faint corner erase at upper right, otherwise in fine condition, unmounted.

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  • Kosciusko Road in summer, Snowy Mountains

    # 50159

    NUCOLORVUE

    Kosciusko Road in summer, Snowy Mountains

    Moorabbin, Vic. : Nucolorvue, [circa 1970]. Paper wallet, 113 x 153 mm, with colour photographic front; containing an accordion-style foldout with 10 colour photographic views; intended for mailing, but unused; in excellent condition.

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  • [SNOWY MOUNTAINS] Highlights of Kosciusko

    # 50158

    THE GREGORY PICTORIAL COMPANY

    [SNOWY MOUNTAINS] Highlights of Kosciusko

    Sydney : The Gregory Pictorial Company, [between 1955 and 1960]. Paper wallet, 113 x 147 mm, with illustrated front; containing an accordion-style foldout with 12 b/w photographic views; intended for mailing, but unused; in excellent condition.

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  • [MOUNTAINEERING] The International Himalayan Expedition (aka "The Times" Kanchenjunga Expedition), 1930 : a substantial archive of official photographs.

    # 41419

    HOERLIN, Harold (photographer)

    [MOUNTAINEERING] The International Himalayan Expedition (aka “The Times” Kanchenjunga Expedition), 1930 : a substantial archive of official photographs.

    An archive of 44 original gelatin silver print photographs taken by the expedition photographer Harold Hoerlin; in uniform 260 x 200 mm or 200 x 260 mm format; versos with typed explanatory labels, “The Times Kanchenjunga Expedition” copyright stamps, and release date stamps: 24 May 1930 (10), 28 May 1930 (12), 21 June 1930 (5), 30 June …

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  • Young woman posed in front of a painted studio backdrop of Otago Harbour. Dunedin, New Zealand, 1863-65.

    # 49858

    DENSLOW, John West

    Young woman posed in front of a painted studio backdrop of Otago Harbour. Dunedin, New Zealand, 1863-65.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Denslow, Artist, Royal Gallery, Octagon, Princes St., Dunedin’; the print and the mount are both in excellent condition. ‘When John Denslow set up a photographic studio in Dunedin in 1863, he described himself in artistic terms. In an advertisement …

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  • The map and chart of Japan

    # 49883

    TANASE, Shozo

    The map and chart of Japan

    Osaka : Yoshioka Heisuke, 1898. Engraved map on paper, 480 x 705 mm, original colour, folded and housed in original publisher’s illustrated papered boards case (lower panel stained), the map captioned in English and Japanese, with inset maps of Chiosen (Korea), Riukiu (Ryukyu) Islands, Hokkaido and the Kuril Islands, Ogasawara (Bonin Islands), with various Japanese …

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  • Mount Gambier Hospital, south-eastern South Australia, c.1870.

    # 49770

    [NIXON, J. H. or GINNINGS, J. T., attributed]

    Mount Gambier Hospital, south-eastern South Australia, c.1870.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 103 mm; verso with a fully contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Mount gambier Hospitle‘; the print has lost some contrast but is otherwise in good condition, as is the mount. This carte was sourced with others taken by travelling photographer J. T. Ginnings. However, the State Library of …

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  • Views of Tientsin

    # 49882

    Views of Tientsin

    Twelve postcards printed in colour, captions in English and Japanese, postally unused in original lettered paper wrappers (foxed), including views of the French Concession, Italian Concession, German Concession, British Concession, Japanese Concession etc. Postcards in fine condition, near mint.

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  • The Devil's Hands, Nowra (New South Wales).

    # 41909

    Photographer unknown.

    The Devil’s Hands, Nowra (New South Wales).

    Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, printed on postcard stock, 137 x 86 mm; manuscript caption in image lower left ‘The Devil’s Hands, Nowra’; mailed from Nowra to Parramatta on 10 April 1909 by a Shoalhaven tourist who writes: ‘Good walk across scenery worth seeing’; in excellent condition. Rare early photograph of a painted rock shelter at …

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  • [MELBOURNE] Mathinna Falls, near Healesville.

    # 49728

    [CAIRE, N. J., attributed]

    [MELBOURNE] Mathinna Falls, near Healesville.

    [Late 1890s]. Albumen print photograph, 200 x 155 mm; fully contemporary inscription in pencil to verso: ‘Mathinna Falls nr. Healesville’; unmounted, in very good condition.

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  • Young men on the bank of the Goodradigbee River near Burrinjuck, New South Wales. August, 1914.

    # 36841

    HOWARD & SHEARSBY (YASS)

    Young men on the bank of the Goodradigbee River near Burrinjuck, New South Wales. August, 1914.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, 89 x 140 mm, printed on postcard stock; captioned in the negative ‘374. Goodradigbee River, Burrinjuck, Aug. 1914. H & S’; verso imprinted ‘Howard & Shearsby, Yass, N.S.W.’; a very sharp image with great depth of field; not postally used, in superb condition. We have not been able to locate any example …

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  • [SYDNEY] Camp in Middle Harbour.

    # 42979

    Photographer unknown.

    [SYDNEY] Camp in Middle Harbour.

    [Title from inscription]. Albumen print photograph, 105 x 190 mm; inscribed in pencil verso in a fully contemporary hand ‘Camp in Middle Harbour’; in very good condition; unmounted. A charming 1890s outdoor portrait by an unidentified photographer – possibly an amateur – of a group of Sydneysiders enjoying recreation time on the Middle Harbour foreshore. …

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  • Government Buildings, Sydney, circa 1875.

    # 37926

    Photographer unknown.

    Government Buildings, Sydney, circa 1875.

    [Title from caption on mount]. Albumen print photograph, 127 x 190 mm, laid down on a 19th-century album page, with manuscript caption in ink to lower margin; slight darkening at corners caused by the original mounting glue, and a short tear at bottom edge, otherwise in very good condition.

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  • View of Broken Hill mine and smelters. Far West New South Wales, 1890s.

    # 40435

    Photographer unknown.

    View of Broken Hill mine and smelters. Far West New South Wales, 1890s.

    Albumen print photograph, 150 x 200 mm, captioned in negative ‘Broken Hill’; laid down recto of a 19th-century album leaf, with handwritten caption ‘Broken Hill’ in bottom margin; the print is in very good condition, but the mount has some light foxing; verso has an identical format albumen print of a river scene with cliffs …

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  • Dawes Battery, Sydney, circa 1875.

    # 37921

    Photographer unknown.

    Dawes Battery, Sydney, circa 1875.

    [Title from caption on mount]. Albumen print photograph, 127 x 190 mm, laid down on a 19th-century album page, with manuscript caption in ink to lower margin; slight darkening at corners caused by the original mounting glue, otherwise in very good condition.

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