Photograph of 'The Mann Family, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, N.W.S. [N.S.W.]', [ca. 1858-1870]
Photograph of 'The Mann Family, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, N.W.S. [N.S.W.]', [ca. 1858-1870]
About this item
Full title
Date
[ca. 1858-1870]
Call Numbers
SPG/210
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 photograph - 6 x 9 cm. - albumen
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
A group portrait of the Mann family, probably outside 'Biloela', the superintendent’s residence on Cockatoo Island.
An albumen print photograph in the carte-de-visite style stuck on yellow card.
It is accompanied with a paper scrap torn from a photo album with script 'The Mann family & others, Cockatoo Island, Sydney'. On the verso i...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Photograph of 'The Mann Family, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, N.W.S. [N.S.W.]', [ca. 1858-1870]
Notes
Date note
No date. Date based on time Mann moved into Biolela house on Cockatoo Island and his retirement in 1870.
Description source
Titled on verso of photograph. Unknown photographer.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Ancanthe, July 2018
Administrative / Biographical history
Gother Kerr Mann came to Australia in 1836. In 1838, he married Mary Hely and settled in Sydney as an engineer in private practice. He then found employment with the colonial government as a draughtsman in Captain George Barney 's Department of Royal Engineers. From 1847, as directing engineer at Cockatoo Island, Mann was responsible for all penal...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SPG/210
Record Identifier
16AXpzdn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/16AXpzdn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
9611521
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