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Title
Glass stereograph photographs of Sydney / Edwin Dalton
Creator
Edwin Dalton, active 1853-1865
Call number
ON 235
Level of description
fonds
Date

1859
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
411792
Issue Copy
Partly Digitised : nos. 1-13
Physical Description
13 negatives - 8.3 x 17.2 cm (stereograph), in box 10.0 x 19.5 cm - glass collodion, in original cedar box
1 negative - 8.3 x 17.0 cm (stereograph) - glass collodion
Scope and Content
1. Macquarie Street, Sydney, 1859
2. Royal Exchange, Bridge Street
3. Macquarie Place
4-5. Government House from Mrs Macquarie's Point ; Government House from Tarpeian Way
6. Margaret Street. Samuel Aaron Joseph, merchant is listed in Sand's Directory, 1858-59
7-8. Views of Circular Quay, looking west
9. Campbell's Wharf
10. View of Dawes Point from Milsons Point
11. Watsons Bay from Vaucluse
12. Sydney Heads from South Head
13. The Gap
14. Fort Macquarie, Sydney
Access Conditions

Access via appointment
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Description source

Title of Item 10. [View of Dawes Point from McMahons Point] amended to 10. [View of Dawes Point from Milsons Point] on advice of reader. AD 18/11/2021
Nos. 2-14 title devised by cataloguer.
General note

These are probably the glass stereographs shown by Dalton at the second photographic exhibition of the Philosophical Society of NSW in Dec 1859 (see Sydney Morning Herald 22/12/1859). Dalton had also advertised 'transparent' stereoscopic photographs in January of 1859.

The stereographs were formerly in the collection of photographic historian Keast Burke and are mentioned by him in Keast Burke "Photographs and photographic equipment as a field for the collector" The Australasian Antique Collector no.11 1971 (ML Q708.005/1)

No. 14 brought in by Kerras Burke, 2007, to be added to this collection -- Curator of Photographs
Digital order no:Album ID : 823729
Signatures / Inscriptions

No.1 titled and dated on border at lower left
Conservation note

Nos. 1-13 cleaned by Preservation, May 2004 (Req.444)
No. 4 glass cracked when received
Place
Campbell's Wharf (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Circular Quay (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Dawes Point (N.S.W.)
Gap, The (N.S.W.)
Government House (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Macquarie Place (Sydney, N.S.W.)

Margaret Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Royal Exchange of Sydney (21 Bridge Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
South Head (N.S.W.)
Sydney Heads (N.S.W.)
Tarpeian Way (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Watsons Bay (N.S.W.)
Fort Macquarie (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Exhibited in

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