Photograph album containing views of Horace Watson's Tasmanian Cabinet of Curiosities, and Watson fa...
Photograph album containing views of Horace Watson's Tasmanian Cabinet of Curiosities, and Watson fa...
Photograph album containing views of Horace Watson's Tasmanian Cabinet of Curiosities, and Watson family photographs, ca. 1896-1903
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1896-1903
Call Numbers
PXA 7160
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Reference Code
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
1 album (31 photographic prints) - 22.0 x 28.5 cm or smaller - silver gelatin and albumen paper
2 postcards - 9 x 14 cm
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Fonds
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Album contains photograph of Horace Watson recording Fanny Cochrane Smith on wax cylinder at Barton Hall by Howard & Rollings, circa 1903
; newspaper cutting relating to recording of Smith at Barton Hall; various photographs of interior of Watson's cabinet of curiosities including weapons, carvings, costumes, convict relics, taxidermy specimens,...
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Full title
Photograph album containing views of Horace Watson's Tasmanian Cabinet of Curiosities, and Watson family photographs, ca. 1896-1903
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Notes
Date note
Dates from vendor catalogue
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Acanthe Pty Ltd, 2015
Administrative / Biographical history
Horace Watson was born in Bendigo, Victoria, in 1862. In 1888 he married Louisa Keen, daughter of the man who invented Keens Curry, and they and their family lived in ‘Barton Hall’, Sandy Bay. The cabinet of curiosities in Horace Watson's home at Barton Hall was a museum with three foci: natural history, convict relics, and ethnography. It also fun...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 7160
Record Identifier
YezdZ0A9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YezdZ0A9
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Reference code
1336648
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