Photographs - Topographic

# 43105

SCOTT, Charles P. (1878-1928)

Bagot and Marsh camel train at Oodnadatta Railway Station, South Australia, 1903-04.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 90 x 135 mm, printed on postcard stock; image blind-stamped lower left ‘Chas. P. Scott / Unley, S.A.’ and wet-stamped upper right ‘Oodnadatta’; verso without message or inscription; in excellent condition. This commercial postcard was produced by photographer Charles P. Scott between 1905 and 1908, the year he relocated his business …

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# 42978

[NETTLETON, Charles, 1826-1902] (attributed)

Sandridge Railway Pier, Melbourne. November, 1866.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 90 x 58 mm; laid down on a section cut from a nineteenth-century album page, the mount inscribed ‘Sandridge Railway Pier’; in good condition. An early photographic view of the Sandridge Railway Pier (now known as Station Pier) at Port Melbourne, which was opened in 1854. Although the …

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# 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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# 42867

[DOBSON, Rosemary, KEESING, Nancy, et al.]

Pen and ink : an anthology of prose and verse written by various members of the Frensham Pen and Ink Club. (With an original signed photograph by Harold Cazneaux)

/ chosen by E.L.T., R.D., J.P. ; the lino-cuts and the cover are designed by members of the Art Club. [Mittagong, N.S.W.] : Frensham Press, 1940. Octavo (190 x 130 mm), original mauve card covers with French flaps and linocut design to front (sunned at edges and along spine), inside front cover with limitation statement …

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# 41965

JONES, John H. (1817?-1872)

Stereoscopic view of Castlemaine, Victorian goldfields, 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 imprinted ‘Jones’s Photographs of Australian Sceneries’, and with contemporary manuscript caption in ink to bottom margin: ‘Castlemaine’; verso with pencilled name of the original owner ‘McMillan’; both prints are in good condition; …

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# 41819

HURLEY, Frank (1885-1962)

[WWI] Idiot Corner, Westhoek Ridge, Belgium, 5 November 1917.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 14.5 x 20 cm; verso with the wet stamp of the A.I.F Publications Section, Australia House (London); superb condition. A significant example of the controversial use of montage by Australia’s pre-eminent war photographer, Frank Hurley (1885-1962). From mid 1917 to early September 1918 the Australian photographer and adventurer Frank Hurley, who …

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# 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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# 41840

RUDD, Charles (photographer and publisher) (1849-1901)

The Great Melbourne Telescope.

[Late 1880s]. Albumen print, 130 x 195 mm; preserved as issued mounted on the original green backing sheet, 190 x 230 mm, imprinted in red ink, upper centre: ‘C. RUDD. View Specialist. 257 Bourke Street’, and at lower centre: ‘VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHS.’; both the print and the secondary support are in excellent condition. Rare 1880s view …

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# 41379

Photographer unknown.

View of a section of Queenstown, Tasmania, 1890s.

Printing-out-paper print photograph, 152 x 205 mm; no photographer’s imprint; verso with contemporary inscription in pencil: ‘Section of Queenstown / Hospital on the hill’; there are small spots of discolouration at the left and right edges, and in the sky area the inscription shows through the thin paper; otherwise, this is an extremely sharp image with …

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# 42024

[PROGRESS PHOTO CO.]

[CANADA] Pair of panoramic photographs of Calgary, Alberta, ca. 1910.

I. [Calgary : Progress Photo Co, ca. 1910]. Gelatin silver print photograph printed on postcard stock, 80 x 270 mm, captioned in the negative lower right: Calgary, Alta., looking N. East from Grain Exchange. “Empire Series” Copyright Reg. No. 5003C; not mailed; in very good condition. II. [Calgary : Progress Photo Co, ca. 1910]. Gelatin silver …

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# 40125

Photographer unknown.

Larrakia children posing on the branches of a dead tree, Port Darwin, circa 1920.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 90 x 140 mm; verso inscribed in pencil ‘Port Darwin’; fine condition, unmounted. In spite of the fact that Port Darwin had officially became known as Darwin in 1911, we believe this photograph was taken by a visitor with a personal camera around 1920; they simply used the old nomenclature in …

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# 13471

GINNINGS, J. T.

Mount Gambier Mechanics’ Institute under construction. Southeastern South Australia, circa 1868.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 103 mm; verso with the imprint of J.T. Ginnings Photographer Mt. Gambier & Portland; the albumen print with some toning, confined to the upper edges; the verso of the mount with a little foxing. ‘Mount Gambier Institute under construction. The ground floor library, reading rooms and …

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# 41237

ELLIS, J., Trooper

[PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] Souvenir of Palestine, compiled by Trooper J. Ellis, 7th Light Horse.

[Cover title]. [s.l. : s.n., s.d.]. Photograph album. Oblong folio, 230 x 320 mm; original red cloth over boards, upper board with gilt-lettered title surmounted by the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces badge (also in gilt); front pastedown inscribed in ink ‘Sent by Dr. Goggins’; containing 96 black-and-white gelatin silver prints in uniform 60 x 100 mm format, …

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# 41384

RUDD, Charles (photographer and publisher) (1849-1901)

[GOLD MINING] Three photographs documenting gold sluicing at Uralla on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, early 1890s.

Three albumen print photographs in identical 140 x 200 mm format, each with the photographer’s manuscript captions and consecutive serial numbers (999-1000-1001) in the negative; all preserved as issued, mounted on the original green backing sheets, 230 x 190 mm, imprinted in red ink, upper centre: ‘C. RUDD, VIEW SPECIALIST, 257 BOURKE STREET.’, at l.l. ‘C. …

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# 41380

SWEET, Samuel White (1825-1886)

View of the interior of the Adelaide Arcade, December 1885.

Albumen print photograph, 160 x 223 mm, with ‘Sweet, Adelaide’ in manuscript in negative at bottom edge left of centre; laid down on its original mount of thickish card, captioned ‘Arcade’ in red ink below the image; the tones are a little dark (to be expected) but the image contains a wealth of detail such …

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# 41385

RUDD, Charles (photographer and publisher) (1849-1901)

Camp in Otway Ranges, Victoria, early 1890s.

[Title from caption in negative]. Albumen print photograph, 140 x 210 mm, numbered 991 in the negative; preserved as issued mounted on the original green backing sheet, 190 x 230 mm, imprinted in red ink, upper centre: ‘C. RUDD. View Specialist, 257 Bourke Street’, and at lower centre: ‘VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHS’, with at l.l. ‘C. RUDD, …

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