The International Exhibition, Sydney. 1879-80

PXB 358

fonds

1880

Graphic Materials, Prints

148018

Prints - 56 x 90 cm overall - in original folding leather presentation case with title gilt embossed on front cover. Inside pocket contains folded chromolithograh advertising card for 'Cohen Bros & Co. Monster Clothing Hall 402 George St', with illustration of the Garden Palace and a pair of Aborigines after a photograph by J.W. Lindt entitled 'New South Wales, 1788'. Reverse side of card describes Cohen Bros' clothing stock - 1 folding tinted chromolithograph 'birds-eye view' panorama in 18 linen-backed panels

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Printed caption on upper edge: 'Supplement to the "Illustrated Sydney News," for January 1880'. Names of exhibition buildings along lower edge

Presentation inscription in ink on inside front cover: 'John J. Calvert, Legislative Council'. See Australian Dictionary of Biography, v. 3, p.333 for biographical information on Calvert