Photographs - Topographic

# 37703

LIVESEY, H. G.

Loudon House, John Moffat’s residence. Irvinebank, North Queensland, circa 1885.

Albumen print photograph, 190 x 245 mm; verso with pencilled inscription by the photographer: ‘Mr. Moffat’s residence, Irvinebank. / H. G. Livery, Photo.’; a strong print with superb tonal range, in very good condition (unmounted). A rare photograph of a highly significant North Queensland heritage-listed building in its early years, with the owner himself, John …

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# 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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# 37224

JOHN KIMBERLEY & CO. [DISCACIATI, J. L.]

The Bendigo Pottery depot, (Victoria), 1891-93.

Albumen print photograph, 150 x 210 mm, laid down on its original mount of thick card, imprinted in the lower margin ‘John Kimberley & Co., Photographers / Firebrace Street, Horsham’; the print is a little yellowed and has a short crease at upper right edge; the mount has some small stains and is darkened around …

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# 37709

LIVESEY, H. G. (attributed)

Bird’s-eye view of Herberton, North Queensland, circa 1885.

Albumen print photograph, 190 x 245 mm; verso with pencilled inscription by the photographer: ‘Herberton.’; a strong print with good tonal range; slight fading at edges, some wrinkling, and a very short tear at bottom edge, but overall in good condition (unmounted). We have attributed this rare mid-1880s view of the Herberton township to local …

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# 37273

GREENHAM & EVANS

View of Albany, Western Australia, 1894.

Albumen print photograph, 115 x 200 mm, captioned in manuscript in the negative ‘Albany’; unmounted, the verso inscribed in pencil ‘Albany 1894’; fine condition. The State Library of Western Australia, in its Collection of photographs by Greenham & Evans, holds another example of this albumen print (BA129/5). Charles George Greenham (1853-1925) appears to have commenced his career …

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# 37516

BRABAZON, Dennis

[CUMMERAGUNJA RESERVE] “One of the many houses of the Barmah settlement”.

[Title from manuscript caption verso]. [Taken in 1924]. Gelatin silver print photograph, 87 x 137 mm, printed on Kodak Austral postcard stock; verso with fully contemporary inscription in pencil: ‘One of the many houses of the Barmah settlement’; beneath it the wet-stamped name and pencilled address of a relative of the photographer, P. Brabazon, Hardware …

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# 36913

VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS

Mitchell River, Bairnsdale

[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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# 37810

BLACKADDER, Hebert (1877-1937)

Members of the Crookwell Rifle Club during a “shoot”. Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, circa 1907.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 86 x 137 mm, printed on postcard stock; handwritten caption in the negative: ‘Crookwell Rifle Club / Blackadder’; no message to verso; in excellent condition. According to Barrie (Australians behind the camera), Herbert Blackadder was a professional photographer working from premises in Goulburn Street, Crookwell, in 1905-07. He later worked as …

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# 37854

REILLY, Dianne & Jennifer CAREW

Sun Pictures of Victoria : The Fauchery-Daintree Collection 1858

Melbourne : Library Council of Victoria, 1983. First edition. Quarto (295 x 260 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered black cloth over boards, in pictorial dust jacket (lightly rubbed), pp 143, with 53 full-page photographic plates, introductory essay, notes and references; a very good copy. The French photographer and writer Antoine Fauchery (1823-1861) arrived in Australia in 1852 and …

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# 36663

[JONES, John H., 1817?-1872]

[GOLD RUSH] Gold diggers : tub & cradle process.

[Title from manuscript caption on mount]. [1862]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 74 x 73 mm (arched-top format), on pink card mount 83 x 175 mm; recto of mount with original manuscript inscription in ink at bottom margin Gold Diggers Tub & Cradle Process; both prints have rich tonal range and excellent clarity; the mount has a …

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# 36899

VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS

Sierra Ranges, Dunkeld

[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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# 36919

Photographer unknown

[MELBOURNE] “Rosebank”, residence of Thomas Napier Esq., 1866.

Albumen print from a wet-plate collodion negative, 240 x 300 mm, laid down on its original card mount (removed from a frame at some point), with a contemporary inscription in pencil across the bottom edge of the mount: ‘Rose Bank. Residence of Thos. Napier Esq. 1866’; the print has some fading at the edges, but …

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# 37092

Photographer unknown

Sydney Harbour Bridge under construction, ca. 1930.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 138 x 87 mm, printed on postcard stock; in excellent condition (verso with residual hinges at corners). This photograph, taken looking north across the harbour from Circular Quay, shows a part of the deck being suspended from the newly completed arch during the latter part of 1930. The bridge was officially …

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# 36916

[SYDNEY] Anthony Hordern & Sons’ new building at Brickfield Hill under construction, circa 1905.

[Sydney, NSW : s.n., ca. 1905]. Sepia tone gelatin silver print photograph, 270 x 315 mm (oval format), laid down on its original thick board mount, 350 x 400 mm; fully contemporary inscription in pencil beneath the image: ‘Anthony Hordern’s Brickfield Hill store under construction’; the print is in flawless condition, the mount has some …

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# 36716

HURLEY, Frank (1885-1962)

View on Norfolk Island.

[Sydney : Government Printing Office, ca. 1920]. Gelatin silver print photograph on heavy paper stock, 250 x 295 mm; from the original negative of a photograph taken by Hurley around 1910; not captioned (but possibly a view of part of Kingston?); verso with serial number 89; bottom left corner softened, otherwise in fine condition; unmounted.

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# 36706

HURLEY, Frank (1885-1962)

Panorama of Kingston, Norfolk Island.

[Sydney : Government Printing Office, ca. 1920]. Gelatin silver print photograph on heavy paper stock, 250 x 295 mm; from the original negative of a photograph taken by Hurley around 1910; captioned (by the printer) in the negative lower right; verso with serial number 90; in fine condition; unmounted. The original Hurley negative is held …

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