431051
- Title[Photographic views mainly of Grafton, Copmanhurst, Ramornie, and the Clarence River, ca. 1886-1890]
- Call numberPXA 408
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
ca. 1886-1890 - Type of material
- Reference code431051
- Issue CopyDigitised
- Physical Description1 album (77 photographic prints) - 28 x 36.5 cm. - albumen
- Scope and Content1-3. Princes St. Grafton
4. Dobie St. looking west Grafton
5. Mary St. Grafton
6. Oliver St. (looking east) Grafton
7. [Commercial Bank, Grafton]
8. [possibly Australian Joint Stock Bank Ltd., Grafton]
9. [New South Wales Bank, Grafton]
10. [Prince St. between Pound and Fitzroy Sts. showing Hockey's boot factory]
11. [Princes St. looking north]
12. Court House Grafton
13. Police Quarters Grafton
14. [The Commercial Hotel]
15. [Princes Street Grafton]
16. [Post and Telegraph Office, Grafton]
17. Forest, N.S.W.
18. [Methodist Church, Grafton]
19a. [Christ Church, Grafton]
19b. [Christ Church, Grafton] / J. Stevenson, Fitzroy Street, Grafton
20. [Church of England, Grafton]
21. Roman Catholic Church, Grafton
22a. [Prince St. between Pound and Fitzroy Sts. showing Hockey's boot factory]
22b. [Prince St. flooded]
23a. [Prince St. showing part of Commercial Bank building]
23b. [Similar view as No.23 but street is flooded]
24. [St Andrew's Presbyterian Church]
25. [Church interior, possibly St Andrews]
26. [North Grafton wharf]
27. [ship, "Just in Time" moored at wharf]
28-29. Grafton. Hospital
30. [Argus Office, Fitzroy St. Grafton]
31. Public School. Grafton.
32. [House on the bank of the Clarence River]
33. Etonville Ferry, Clarence River
34. View North Grafton shewing [i.e. showing] Convent [i.e. St Mary's Convent]
35, 37. St Mary's Convent Grafton
36a. [Clarence River, in flood 1887]
36b. [Grafton in flood, 1887]
38. S.S. Australian Clarence River
39. ["Juno" Clarence River]
40. [Collision of S.S. Keilawarra and Helen Nicoll. Photoprint of painting]
41-42. After the collision [Helen Nicoll, Dec. 1886]
43. S.S. Keilawarra [photograph of a painting]
44. [Brick house with gardens]
45. [Slab hut with family in foreground]
46. [Laird's Family Hotel]
47. Junction [Hotel]
48. Wharf Copmanhurst
49. Copmanhurst [Commercial Hotel]
50, 52. Mouth of the Urara River
51. [river, unidentified, possibly Urara]
53-54. [Ramornie meat works]
55-57. Ramornie Meat Works
58-60. Ramornie [various views]
61. Hotel Ramornie
62-63. [School groups, unidentified]
64. [Three men on stairs in landscape]
65. S.S. Platypus
66. S.S. Australian
67. [Ferry wharf, Grafton]
68. Grammar School Grafton
69. S.S. Helen Nichol [i.e. Nicholl]
70. S.S. City of Grafton [photograph of a painting]
71. S.S. New England [photograph of a painting]
72. [Sailing ship, unidentified]
73. S.S. Clarence [photograph of a painting] - Copying ConditionsOut of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales - Related Material
- General note
The photographs in this album are by several photographers that include Josiah Stevenson ("J. Stevenson" appears beneath carte-de-viste view No. 19). Some of the views may be the work of Carl Ehlers who was working in Grafton at this time. A view of Ehler's studio is visible in Nos. 22a & b.
Nos. 8, 25, 26, and 32 were identified by Alan Davies, Curator of Photographs, Mitchell Library, in 1984.
Nos. 11 is identified from Stevenson, W., Views of Grafton and Clarence River (Beauchamp Collection 18) ML Ref. A 5021 f.5
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Nos. 14, 15, 18-21, 24, were identified from Local Government Publishing Co., Grafton and District: its history, trade and industries. Sydney, 1909, ML ref. Q 991.8/L
Nos. 10, 22a, 22b, 23b were reproduced in Australian Town and Country Journal, Feb. 12, 1887, pp. 339-440.
Digital order no:Album ID : 1014680 - Signatures / Inscriptions
Some photographs have printed titles on image
"Photographic views of Grafton", on spine
"D.S. Mitchell" signature on front endpaper - Conservation note
Album in poor condition, heavy foxing and brittle pages - Creator/Author/Artist
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