Photographs, postcards and printed views of New South Wales, ca.1880-1950
Photographs, postcards and printed views of New South Wales, ca.1880-1950
About this item
Full title
Date
ca.1880-1950
Call Numbers
PXB 558
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures, Photographs and Ephemera
Physical Description
Contents
29 photographs - 20.5 x 15.5 cm. or smaller - carte-de-visite and silver gelatin
36 ephemera items and photographic prints (postcards) - 9 x 14 cm.
1 album - 19.5 x 14.5 (covers) - chromolithograph, with folding panorama
4 prints - 11.5 x 16.5 cm. - chromolithograph
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
9 carte-de-visite views of Wesleyan Chapel, Wagga Wagga, by G. A. Tissington, Queen Street, Gulgong; Wellington, NSW [signed "Pearl Tissington" on verso]; The Australian Hotel, Burrowa [Boorowa]; Dillon's Commercial Hotel, Murrumburrah, July '73; General view, Sodwalls[?]; and Fitzroy St, North Shore, by B. C. Boake, 330 George St, Sydney. Three Gu...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Photographs, postcards and printed views of New South Wales, ca.1880-1950
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes
General note
The Australian Hotel, Burrowa, on the road to the goldfields, was built on Brial and Court Street in 1866 by John Phillip Sheahan and Allan Hancock. Adjoining was a general store owned by Samuel Walker in 1867 and subsequently by Isaac Stevenson in 1868. The premises were taken over by Isaac's brother James in 1885 and renamed Wentworth House, deli...
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Object History
The Pictorial Collections Librarian at John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland wrote to the Mitchell Library on 27 May 1976 that he was at that time "extracting interstate material from this collection and forwarding it to the libraries more concerned with these items." The material catalogued at PXB 558 was enclosed with this letter and an...
Contextual Information
Source
Donated by John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, June and July 1976
Pic.Acc.3609 and Pic.Acc.3771
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXB 558
Record Identifier
n88EQMLn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n88EQMLn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
908882
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