Settlement of Port Arthur (Penal Settlement), Past and Present [ca. 1871-1891] / Photographed by Ans...
Settlement of Port Arthur (Penal Settlement), Past and Present [ca. 1871-1891] / Photographed by Ans...
Settlement of Port Arthur (Penal Settlement), Past and Present [ca. 1871-1891] / Photographed by Anson Bros.
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
[ca. 1871-1891]
Call Numbers
PXD 513
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 album (13 photoprints) - 36.2 x 48.5 cm. - albumen
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
The numbers in brackets after the title are the photographer's series numbers.
1. Port Arthur During Convict Occupation (117 A)
2. Port Arthur, Looking West .. (524 A)
3. Port Arthur, From Scorpion Hill, No.2 (210 A)
4. Port Arthur - From Dead Island (105 A)
5. Lunatic Asylum and Invalid Depot (108 A)
6. Penitentiary, Port Arthur...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Settlement of Port Arthur (Penal Settlement), Past and Present [ca. 1871-1891] / Photographed by Anson Bros.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 1287056...
Signature / Inscriptions
Title taken from printed text on title page.
Photographer's details, "Anson Bros., Wellington Bridge, Hobart."
Gilt text on front cover, "Port Arthur / Past & Presnt"
Most photographs have printed titles on image.
"D.S. Mitchell" signature on front endpaper.
Attributions / Conjectures
Authorship of individual images is uncertain as J.W. Beattie was employed at Anson Bros. 1882-1891. In 1891, Beattie purchased Anson Bros. studio and negatives, later printing them under his own name.
Reference:
From notes by Alan Davies, Curator, State Library of NSW, 1984
Date note
The photographs are not dated.
The earliest date is that of the Penitentiary (no.6) taken by A.H. Boyd, Camp Commandant 1871-1874. (see Views in Tasmania, Vol. II, ca. 1885-1894 / Anson Brothers. PXD 511/no. 10 ‘Port Arthur during convict occupation’)
The latest date is the end of the Anson Bros. partnership.
Reference:
The mechanical e...
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by D.S. Mitchell, 1907
Transferred from the Mitchell Library Printed Books Collection, F986.3/A, December 1984
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXD 513
Record Identifier
Yr8R5zKn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yr8R5zKn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
442424
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