Sydney Observatory (H.C. Russell in doorway)
Sydney Observatory (H.C. Russell in doorway)
About this item
Full title
Date
[ca. 1860]
Call Numbers
SPF/301
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Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
Photographs - 25 x 30.5 cm. - albumen photoprint
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Item
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Digitised
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Alternative Titles
Full title
Sydney Observatory (H.C. Russell in doorway)
Notes
General note
Dated from the same photograph "Sydney Observatory from the south shortly after completion, about 1860" reproduced in: Sydney Observatory : a conservation plan for the site and its structures / James Semple Kerr. Sydney : Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, c1991. (p.23)
Digital order no:a089301
This item has been catalogued and digitised under a project funded and supported by the State Library of New South Wales Foundation, 2001....
Signature / Inscriptions
Titled on reverse
Contextual Information
Administrative / Biographical history
Russell joined the Sydney Observatory [in 1859] under Rev. W. Scott. In 1862-64 he was acting director and was appointed government astronomer in 1870. Reference: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.6 (pp.74-5)
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Call Numbers
SPF/301
Record Identifier
nmQd0Zyn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nmQd0Zyn
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Reference code
412644
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