Clarke family portraits and photographs including cartes de visite, with a sketch of a church and a...
Clarke family portraits and photographs including cartes de visite, with a sketch of a church and a leather pouch, 1831-ca.1878 / compiled by the Clarke family
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1831-ca.1878
Call Numbers
PXA 1445
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures, Drawings, Photographs and Objects
Physical Description
Contents
3 photographic prints - 15.0 x 6.8 cm or smaller - stereographs
3 photographs - 15.0 x 6.8 cm or smaller - stereographs
37 photographs - various sizes - cartes de visite
1 photographic print - 11.8 x 9.6 cm - albumen
1 pouch - 14.0 x 9.0 cm - leather
1 drawing - 5.3 x 11.0 cm - pencil
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
The collection includes:
1. A small leather bag (possibly used for gold specimens)
2-3. Two albumen stereographic views of St. Thomas's Church, North Sydney
4. A stereographic view of Milson's Point, North Sydney
5. An interior view of East Bergholt Church, Suffolk, dated 1874
6. A small pencil drawing of the birthplace of Rev. W...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Clarke family portraits and photographs including cartes de visite, with a sketch of a church and a leather pouch, 1831-ca.1878 / compiled by the Clarke family
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project – Information transferred from Pic.Acc.796 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012
Transferred from Mitchell Library Manuscripts collection, MLMSS 139
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Lindsay Clarke, May 1959
Pic.Acc.796
Administrative / Biographical history
William Branwhite Clarke (1798-1878) was born in East Bergholt, Suffolk, England to William Clarke and Sarah nee Branwhite. He became well known as an Anglican clergyman and geologist in New South Wales. In 1841 he discovered gold in the Blue Mountains, he also carried out significant work collecting and documenting fossil and mineral deposits in N...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 1445
Record Identifier
YdmeQ5g9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YdmeQ5g9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
63618
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