Photographs - Topographic

  • Beauty Spots of Adelaide, S. Australia.

    # 38848

    Photographer unknown.

    Beauty Spots of Adelaide, S. Australia.

    [Circa 1914]. Handmade photo album, 80 x 210 mm, original textured brown paper wrappers with manuscript title in white ink to front ‘Beauty Spots of Adelaide, S. Australia’; containing [5] silver bromide prints, in uniform panoramic format 54 x 155 mm, mounted individually on the rectos of [5] leaves, each with a ms. caption in …

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  • View of Sydney looking across Darling Harbour towards Flagstaff Hill from Balmain, late 1860s.

    # 38017

    DEGOTARDI, John, senior (1823-1882)

    View of Sydney looking across Darling Harbour towards Flagstaff Hill from Balmain, late 1860s.

    Albumen print photograph, 133 x 205 mm, blind-stamped bottom right ‘DEGOTARDI / SYDNEY’; on original mount of thin card with contemporary printed caption label ‘Sydney, from Balmain’; the print has faded, otherwise good condition; matted.

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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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  • 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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  • Whitsunday Islands : Great Barrier Reef

    # 37657

    QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU.

    Whitsunday Islands : Great Barrier Reef

    [Brisbane : Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, between 1930 and 1940]. Six large gelatin silver print photographs in panoramic format, each 170 x 520 mm; window-mounted in pairs in three original display mounts of heavy board; each mount has a poetic manuscript calligraphic caption in ink at the centre, plus across the lower margin ‘Whitsunday Islands …

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  • Mornington

    # 36905

    VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS

    Mornington

    [Melbourne, Vic.] : Victorian Government Railways, [between 1920 and 1930]. Sepia tone silver bromide print photograph, 385 x 445 mm, printed on thick board; printed caption label lower centre; blind-stamped lower left ‘Victorian Railways Photo.’; some surface loss at bottom corner, and marks at top edge, but overall in very good condition. A fine example …

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  • Road to Toolangi, Healesville

    # 36904

    VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS

    Road to Toolangi, Healesville

    [Melbourne, Vic.] : Victorian Government Railways, [between 1920 and 1930]. Sepia tone silver bromide print photograph, 385 x 445 mm, printed on thick board; printed caption label lower centre; blind-stamped lower left ‘Victorian Railways Photo.’; some surface loss at corners, but overall in very good condition. A fine example of the large-format photographs of Victorian …

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  • Sassafras Gully

    # 36911

    VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS

    Sassafras Gully

    [Melbourne, Vic.] : Victorian Government Railways, [between 1920 and 1930]. Sepia tone silver bromide print photograph, 385 x 445 mm, printed on thick board; printed caption label lower centre; blind-stamped lower left ‘Victorian Railways Photo.’; a few scratches at left edge, but overall in very good condition. A fine example of the large-format photographs of …

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  • Balcombe's Creek, Mornington

    # 36910

    VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS

    Balcombe’s Creek, Mornington

    [Melbourne, Vic.] : Victorian Government Railways, [between 1920 and 1930]. Sepia tone silver bromide print photograph, 385 x 445 mm, printed on thick board; printed caption label lower centre; blind-stamped lower left ‘Victorian Railways Photo.’; wear at bottom corners, but overall in very good condition. A fine example of the large-format photographs of Victorian scenery …

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  • River Yarra at Heidelberg

    # 36912

    VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS

    River Yarra at Heidelberg

    [Melbourne, Vic.] : Victorian Government Railways, [between 1920 and 1930]. Sepia tone silver bromide print photograph, 385 x 445 mm, printed on thick board; printed caption label lower centre; blind-stamped lower left ‘Victorian Railways Photo.’; a couple of scratches at right edge, but overall in very good condition. A fine example of the large-format photographs …

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  • Breakneck Gorge, Hepburn

    # 36898

    VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS

    Breakneck Gorge, Hepburn

    [Melbourne, Vic. : Victorian Government Railways, between 1920 and 1930]. Sepia tone silver bromide print photograph, 385 x 445 mm, printed on thick board; printed caption label lower centre; blind-stamped lower left ‘Victorian Railways Photo.’; a few light marks, but overall in very good condition. A fine example of the large-format photographs of Victorian scenery …

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  • Cowes, Phillip Island

    # 36908

    VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS

    Cowes, Phillip Island

    [Melbourne, Vic.] : Victorian Government Railways, [between 1920 and 1930]. Sepia tone silver bromide print photograph, 385 x 445 mm, printed on thick board; printed caption label lower centre; blind-stamped lower left ‘Victorian Railways Photo.’; a few light marks, but overall in very good condition. A fine example of the large-format photographs of Victorian scenery …

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  • Cowes, Phillip Island [steam ferry in distance]

    # 36909

    VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS

    Cowes, Phillip Island [steam ferry in distance]

    [Melbourne, Vic.] : Victorian Government Railways, [between 1920 and 1930]. Sepia tone silver bromide print photograph, 385 x 445 mm, printed on thick board; printed caption label lower centre; blind-stamped lower left ‘Victorian Railways Photo.’; a few light marks, but overall in very good condition. A fine example of the large-format photographs of Victorian scenery …

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  • View of Wellington, New Zealand. Late 1860s.

    # 37329

    Photographer unknown

    View of Wellington, New Zealand. Late 1860s.

    Albumen print photograph, 77 x 207 mm; laid down on section of card cut from a 19th-century album leaf; no photographer’s imprint; with contemporary caption in ink beneath the image: ‘Wellington – New Zealand’; the print has lost some contrast but is otherwise in very good condition; the mount is free from foxing. Possibly attributable …

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  • The Australian Museum, Sydney, with staff outside including the Curator, Gerard Krefft. Circa 1868.

    # 37929

    Photographer unknown.

    The Australian Museum, Sydney, with staff outside including the Curator, Gerard Krefft. Circa 1868.

    Albumen print photograph, 135 x 225 mm, no photographer’s imprint; laid down on its original mount of thin card, with a fully contemporary caption in pencil ‘Museum’ at bottom left; the print has exceptional clarity and rich tonal range; the mount has some silverfishing at top left and right, encroaching on the print very slightly …

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  • Giant ant hill or termite nest, Western Australia. Late 1890s.

    # 37094

    Photographer unknown.

    Giant ant hill or termite nest, Western Australia. Late 1890s.

    Printing-out-paper gelatin silver print, 108 x 114 mm; inscribed in pencil on the verso ‘An Ant-hill, West. Aus.’; in fine condition, unmounted. This photograph was probably taken by an amateur photographer, and is therefore quite possibly a unique image. A NOTE ON THE PRINTING-OUT-PAPER PROCESS ‘A process common from 1860 to 1940, printing-out-paper (POP) uses …

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