Series 02: Collection of photographs of Potts Point, Victoria Barracks and Mrs Macquarie's Point, Sydney / by Major Thomas Wingate, 1858-1869

PXA 780

series

1858-1869

Graphic Materials, Photographs

130428

Photographs - 16 x 22 cm. and smaller - 6 albumen prints

1-2. Views of Potts Point, ca. 1860. Note: another copy of no. 2 is located at PXA 412, f. 32
3. Group of soldiers in front of Victoria Barracks, ca. 1861
4-6. Mrs Macquarie's Point from Woolloomooloo Bay, ca. 1860

Photographs 1-5 were donated by Mrs L. Cadell in May 1953 with an album of letters and photographs by Major Thomas Wingate. (ML A 3804)
Wingate lived at Percy Lodge, 22 Wylde Street Potts Point from at least 1858 until his death in 1869. All the Potts Point photographs appear to be taken from his house.
The image of soldiers at Victoria Barracks depicts members of the newly formed 1st Regiment New South Wales Rifle Volunteers, probably on 18 May 1861, the day they received their colours. Major Thomas Wingate was Commanding Officer.
[Group of soldiers in front of Victoria Barracks, ca. 1861] / TW - Another print at SPF/25, presented May 1953, probably formed part of the Wingate papers
[Cockatoo Island] - This photograph at SPF/817 was donated in May 1953 along with other photographs dated 1858-1869 by Major Thomas Wingate
[St James Church, Sydney, ca. 1860s] - This photograph at SPF/67 was donated in May 1953 along with other photographs dated 1858-1869 by Major Thomas Wingate