• Title
  Port Arthur Past & Present / by Anson Bros.
• Creator
  Anson Brothers
• Call number
  DL PXX 64
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1820; 1845; 1878-1895
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  402021
• Physical Description
  1 album (13 albumen photoprints, 4 printed items, one with MSS annotations) - 36.3 x 48.5 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Rules for Prisoners, Separate Prison ... (Extracts from Port Arthur Approved Regulations) [broadside, n.d.]
  2. Police Department ... Thomas Hefford ... Prisoner's Remove Warrant Common, 1845 (printed form with manuscript annotations)
  3. A well known Port Arthur identity / Beattie, Hobart
  4. Port Arthur, from Dead Island /Anson Bros.
  5. Port Arthur in 1888 / Anson Bros.
  6. Port Arthur during Convict Occupation / Anson Bros.
  7. The Penitentiary, Port Arthur, during Convict Occupation / Anson Bros.
  8. Interior Penitentiary / Anson Bros.
  9. Hall, Model Prison, Port Arthur / Anson Bros.
  10. Chapel, Model Prison / Anson Bros.
  11. General View, Model Prison, Port Arthur / Anson Bros.
  12. Invalid Depot and Lunatic Asylum / Anson Bros.
  13. Dead Island, from Point Puer / Anson Bros.
  14. Mount Arthur, and Coast Point Puer / Anson Bros.
  15. Cliffs, Point Puer / Anson Bros.
  16. Port Arthur. Permit the individual named in the margin to leave Tasmans Peninsula ... Civil Commandant. [printed form]
  17. Fifty Pounds Sterling Reward ... [theft from] Joseph Johnson ... 1820. [broadside]
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Description taken from title printed on the mount; 8 images have a slightly varying title printed along lower edge of photograph
  This album holds some prints that are housed in Settlement of Port Arthur (Penal Settlement), Past and Present, / Photographed by Anson Bros ... (PXD 512 and PXD 513).
  
  Two further albums Settlement of Port Arthur (penal settlement), past and present / photographed by Anson Bros. are held in the State Reference Library collection at TX00284 and TX00285.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Title taken from spine.
  "Settlement of Port Arthur (Penal Settlement) Past and Present, Photographed by Anson Bros., Wellington Bridge, Hobart" -- title page.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Beattie, J. W. (John Watt), 1859-1930
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  interiors
  buildings, structures & establishments
  cells, prison
  churches
  prison cells
  prisons
  rocks (landscape)
  rowing boats
  ruins
  ships
  
• Place
  Port Arthur (Tas.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  On the Run. Daring Convict Escapes
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE14471983

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