[Views in New South Wales and Victoria : portraits of Aboriginal Australians and Maoris]

PXE 656

fonds

[ca. 1870-1880]

Graphic Materials, Photographs

52574

Photographs - 11 carte-de-visite albumen photoprints 10.3 x 6.2 cm. or smaller - 42 half-plate albumen photoprints - 15.5 x 20.7 cm. or smaller

1. Govetts Leap Blue Mountains N.S.W.
2. Norfolk Island Pine Botanical Gardens Sydney
3. Tree stump West Botany N.S.W.
4. Zig Zag Railway G[reat] W[estern] Railway N.S.W.
5. Waterworn rocks Steel Point N.S.W.
6. Bush scene near Patterson (sic, i.e. Paterson) N.S.W.
7. Projecting rock inner South Head Port Jackson
8. Sharks Point and bluffs from Coogee N.S.W.
9. Rocks Coogee Bay N.S.W.
10. Cabbage Tree Beach, Cambridge in distance N.S.W.
11. City of Sydney, from Darling Harbour
12. Small Weather Board Falls, Blue Mountains N.S.W.
13. Dandenong State Forest, Fern Tree Gully, falls and ladder
14. City of Sydney, looking towards Johnstones Bay [shows Glebe Island]
15. Circular Quay Sydney, from Macquarie Battery
16. Government House, Sydney from Outer Domain
17. Cockatoo Lsland from Long Nose Point Port Jackson
18. Looking towards reclaimed land from precipice Outer Domain
19. Snapper Island, Port Jackson
20. Balls Head from Birch Grove (sic, i.e. Birchgrove) Port Jackson
21. Ferns and waterfall upper Botanical Gardens Sydney
22. Patterson [sic, i.e. Paterson] River from Stradbrook [sic, i.e. Stradbroke] Garden N.S.W.
23. Aloe in flower Botanical Gardens Sydney
24. Pond with palms, ferns and drift sand, Botanical Gardens, Sydney
25. Brighton Beach on Boxing Day looking North
26. Dandenong State Forest, track to Sassafras Gully
27. Queens Wharf Melbourne
28. Sandridge Railway Pier
29. Botanical Gardens Melbourne near footbridge taken 1872
30. Fitzroy Gardens Melbourne
31. Government House from Botanical Gardens Bridge
32. Botanical Gardens Melbourne near Foot Bridge taken 1872
33. On the Yarra, Princes Bridge
34. Government House, Melbourne front view
35. Townhall Organ Melbourne
36. Town Hall Hotham
37. Post Office Melbourne
38. The Treasury Melbourne
39. Collins Street Melbourne from Queen Street looking East
40. Houses of Parliament from Albert Street
41. Collins Street Town of Melbourne Port Phillip [photoprint of 1830s view]
42. Collins Street Melbourne from Market Street looking East
43. [Four portraits of Aborigines of Victoria; one portrait of Maori woman; one streetscape]
46. [Three portraits of Aborigines; one portrait of Maori man; one streetscape; water-tank]

It has been suggested by Alan Davies, Curator of Photographs, Mitchell Library that the photographer of the New South Wales views was John Paine (ref. Sydney Morning Herald, 23 and 29 November 1875), the photographers of the Victorian views were Charles Nettleton and Donald McDonald and Fred Kruger for the Aborigines and Maoris. The carte-de-visite photoprint of the water-tower has the stamp of Stevenson & McNicoll, Melbourne.
PXE 656/29 and 32 are dated 1872. See notes on suggested photographers for information on dating. In addition see The mechanical eye in Australia ... / Alan Davies and Peter Stanbury. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1985, p.72. regarding date of Kruger's photography of Aborigines at Coranderrk (Vic.)

Titles inscribed beneath half-plate photoprints