Volume 57: New South Wales. Government Printer. Photographic views of New South Wales, 1900
Volume 57: New South Wales. Government Printer. Photographic views of New South Wales, 1900
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1879-1900
Call Numbers
PXD 231
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures, Photographs and Drawings
Physical Description
Contents
1 album (1 watercolour, 100 black & white photographs) - 43.7 x 52 cm
Other Descriptions
Level of description
File
Access and use
Issue Copy
Copy print : PXD 231/vol. 2
Finding aids
Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Photographic views of New South Wales, 1900, presented to His Excellency, Earl Beauchamp, Governor of New South Wales from the Government of New South Wales.
The collection includes views of Sydney streets, arcades, statues, buildings, Sydney Harbour, the Royal Botanic Gardens; Kuring-gai Chase and National Park; Newcastle, the Blue Mountain...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Volume 57: New South Wales. Government Printer. Photographic views of New South Wales, 1900
Variant title
Photographic views of New South Wales 1900 from the Government of New South Wales. [Album presented to William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp], ca. 1879-1900 / New South Wales Government Printer
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Ninety nine photographs are titled from the negatives.
The tooled leather binding is surmounted on front cover with a silver coat of arms 'SIC FORTIS ETRURIA CREVIT/ADVANCE AUSTRALIA' within a shield shaped indentation.
Beauchamp Collection Vol. 57
Transferred from Manuscripts Collection, 1992
Signature / Inscriptions
The photographs are not signed; attributed to the New South Wales Government Printer after comparison with images on Government Printing Office videodisk, located in the Mitchell Library at GPO1.
Date note
The collection is dated approximately from the print 'A miner's hut - Lithgow Valley' (no. 90), compared with N.S.W. Government Printer, The Railway Guide of New South Wales ... 1879, p. 21, 'Mountain Home', and title page
Description source
Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXD 231
Record Identifier
nGm4K8oY
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nGm4K8oY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
846315
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