Photographs of cattle stations, sheep stations and stud farms in the Central West, Liverpool Plains...
Photographs of cattle stations, sheep stations and stud farms in the Central West, Liverpool Plains and Hunter Valley districts of N.S.W., [ca. 1891] / by Joseph Check
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
[ca. 1891]
Call Numbers
PXE 1721
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
11 photographic prints - 24.5 x 29 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
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Scope and Contents
Contents
11 albumen photographic prints showing homesteads, sheds and workers, as well as the activities of a horse stud and large cattle and sheep stations.
1. Rock of Gibraltar, Martindale Station
2. Turnville Stud Farm
3. Gummin Gummin Station dam
4. Cattle on Camp Worombumool Mt, Gummin Station
5. Garrawilla Station wool team
6. G...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Photographs of cattle stations, sheep stations and stud farms in the Central West, Liverpool Plains and Hunter Valley districts of N.S.W., [ca. 1891] / by Joseph Check
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
Signature / Inscriptions
All photographic prints are inscribed "J. Check"
Date note
Date based on "1891" inscriptions on photographs of Goolhi
Description source
Titles derived from inscriptions on lower right corner of prints.
Object History
Acquired from Stephen Lunsford, a Canadian bookseller based in Vancouver, in 2017
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Douglas Stewart Fine Books, April 2018
Administrative / Biographical history
Joseph Check was a travelling photographer and painter. He practised all forms of photography, and used limelight shows and cinematography to attract business. He remained a travelling photographer well into the twentieth century and is known to have visited Gulgong as late as 1928.
Reference: Library correspondence file
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXE 1721
Record Identifier
YzOmmaM9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YzOmmaM9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
9606323
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