Photograph album compiled by Lieutenant Barrett of the Royal Navy while doing a survey of the Atlant...
Photograph album compiled by Lieutenant Barrett of the Royal Navy while doing a survey of the Atlantic Trench from [Cape du Vende] to the Falkland Islands on board "HMS Cleopatra", c. 1880s
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1880s
Call Numbers
PXA 1496
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
Albums - 28 x 23 x 3 cm. - Embossed green cover with gold-coloured trim. Inside covers have extensive foxing. One photo torn - 1 cloth-bound album - Containing 29 silver gelatin and albumen photoprints
Photographs - 18 x 22 cm. or smaller - Creased and torn with some pieces missing altogether - 7 loose albumen photoprints
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
Album (includes photographs of Sydney Harbour, Double Bay, Neutral Bay and the Garden Palace):
1. [Crew of HMS Cleopatra, assembled on deck]
2. [Photographed painting of HMS Cleopatra in an unidentified bay with many rowboats]
3. [Unidentified veiled woman]
4. [Unidentified costumed woman]
5. [Unidentified veiled woman]
6. [Crew o...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Photograph album compiled by Lieutenant Barrett of the Royal Navy while doing a survey of the Atlantic Trench from [Cape du Vende] to the Falkland Islands on board "HMS Cleopatra", c. 1880s
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Pic.Acc. Update P3
"HMS Cleopatra" was in Sydney in 1881
Signature / Inscriptions
The Sydney and Western Australian images within the Album are identified in ink handwriting in the page margins
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Ian H. Hart, March 1983
Pic.Acc.5392
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 1496
Record Identifier
nGm4oaGY
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nGm4oaGY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
421015
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