Walter B. Woodbury - Letters [M1952], 1852-1858

M 1952

fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

432773

Microfilm : M 1952

microfilm reel 35 mm

Born Manchester. Emigrated to Australia in 1852 and established a photographic business in Melbourne in 1855. In 1857 he went to Java, returning to England in 1862

Letters to Ellen Woodbury (Lloyd) written while in Australia and Java. Describes work as a surveyor's labourer; conditions in Melbourne; photography; the gold diggings; appointment as draughtsman in Commission of Sewers and Water Supply; Eureka uprising; establishment of photographic business; economic conditions; travels in Victoria; voyage to Java; opening of photographic business in Batavia; social conditions; planned return to England and other matters

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales
National Library of Australia holds microfilm master
Available for reference
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M1952
Microfilm copy of originals held by the Royal Photographic Society, Bath
Associated materials: copies of the collection of Australian photographs of Walter Woodbury in the Royal Photographic Society are held by National Library of Australia and State Library of Victoria
Descriptive list available (3 p.)
Photographers