• Title
  Settlement of Port Arthur (Penal Settlement), Past and Present, / Photographed by Anson Bros., Wellington Bridge, Hobart
• Creator
  Anson Brothers
• Call number
  PXD 512
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1871-1891
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  411463
• Physical Description
  1 album (12 photoprints) - 36.2 x 48.6 cm. - albumen
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  J.W. Beattie was employed at Anson Brothers, 1882-1891. In 1891, Beattie purchased the studio and its stock, later printing under his own name.
• Scope and Content
  1. Port Arthur, from Dead Island
  2. Port Arthur in 1888
  3. Port Arthur During Convict Occupation
  4. Penitentiary, Port Arthur, during Convict Occupation
  5. Interior Penitentiary.
  6. Hall, Model Prison, Port Arthur
  7. Chapel, Model Prison
  8. General View, Model Prison, Port Arthur
  9. Invalid Depot and Lunatic Asylum.
  10. Dead Island, from Point Puer
  11. Mount Arthur, and Coast Point Puer
  12. Cliffs Point Puer.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• Description source
  
  Titled printed in red text on mount beneath each photograph
• Variant title
  
  Gilt text on red front cover, "Port Arthur / Past & Present"
• General note
  
  Alfred Lee bookplate inside front cover.
  
  Each photograph has a red border around the image on album page.
  
  Some photographs have slightly varying titles printed along lower edge of photograph.
  No. 11 also has printed title, "Entrance to Port Arthur from Point Puer"
  No. 12 is alternatively titled, "White Rocks, Point Puer, Port Arthur"
  Paged in December, 1984.
  
  This album holds some prints that are housed in Settlement of Port Arthur (Penal Settlement), Past and Present, / Photographed by Anson Bros (PXD 513). A similar copy, with some variations, is held the Dixson Library collection; Port Arthur Past & Present / by Anson Bros (DL PXX 64).
  
  Two further albums of the same title are held in the State Reference Library collection at TX00284 and TX00285.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1287054
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Title and photographer's details are taken from printed text on title page.
• Date note
  
  One photograph dated 1888.
  
  The earliest date is that of the Penitentiary (no. 4) by A. H. Boyd, Camp Commandant 1871-1874 (see view in 'Views in Tasmania', vol. 2, page 10 filed at PXD 511)
• Conservation note
  
  Fumigated in 1985
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Boyd, A. H. (Adolarious Humphrey)
  Beattie, J. W. (John Watt), 1859-1930
  
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Photograph albums.
  
• Topic
  buildings, structures & establishments
  churches
  harbours
  prison cells
  prisons
  psychiatric hospitals
  rowing boats
  ruins
  city & town views
  
• Place
  Port Arthur (Tas.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3153317

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