• Title
  Settlement of Port Arthur (Penal Settlement), Past and Present [ca. 1871-1891] / Photographed by Anson Bros.
• Creator
  Anson Brothers
• Call number
  PXD 513
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [ca. 1871-1891]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  442424
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (13 photoprints) - 36.2 x 48.5 cm. - albumen
  
• Scope and Content
  The numbers in brackets after the title are the photographer's series numbers.
  1. Port Arthur During Convict Occupation (117 A)
  2. Port Arthur, Looking West .. (524 A)
  3. Port Arthur, From Scorpion Hill, No.2 (210 A)
  4. Port Arthur - From Dead Island (105 A)
  5. Lunatic Asylum and Invalid Depot (108 A)
  6. Penitentiary, Port Arthur (119 A) / [taken by A.H. Boyd, Camp Commandant]
  7. The Corridor, Penitentiary ... (121 A)
  8. Model Prision .. (106 A)
  9. Hall and Cell, Corridors, Model Prison ...
  10. Old Prison Building, Coal Mines, Port Arthur
  11a-b. Underground Cell, Coal Mines ... (400 B)
  12. Eaglehawk Neck, Tasman Peninsular (516 A)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  Nos. 10 and 11a have handwritten titles in pencil on album page.
  
  Some of the prints in this album are also represented in two albums held within the Mitchell and Dixson Library collections. See: Settlement of Port Arthur (Penal Settlement), Past and Present, / Photographed by Anson Bros (PXD 512); and 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 : 1287056
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Title taken from printed text on title page.
  Photographer's details, "Anson Bros., Wellington Bridge, Hobart."
  Gilt text on front cover, "Port Arthur / Past & Presnt"
  Most photographs have printed titles on image.
  "D.S. Mitchell" signature on front endpaper.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Authorship of individual images is uncertain as J.W. Beattie was employed at Anson Bros. 1882-1891. In 1891, Beattie purchased Anson Bros. studio and negatives, later printing them under his own name.
  
  Reference:
  From notes by Alan Davies, Curator, State Library of NSW, 1984
• Date note
  
  The photographs are not dated.
  The earliest date is that of the Penitentiary (no.6) taken by A.H. Boyd, Camp Commandant 1871-1874. (see Views in Tasmania, Vol. II, ca. 1885-1894 / Anson Brothers. PXD 511/no. 10 ‘Port Arthur during convict occupation’)
  The latest date is the end of the Anson Bros. partnership.
  Reference:
  The mechanical eye in Australia : photography 1841-1900 / Alan Davies & Peter Stanbury ; with assistance from Con Tanre. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Boyd, A. H. (Adolarious Humphrey)
  Beattie, J. W. (John Watt), 1859-1930
  
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Photograph albums--Tasmania
  
• Topic
  buildings, structures & establishments
  churches
  harbours
  prison cells
  prisons
  psychiatric hospitals
  city & town views
  
• Place
  Port Arthur (Tas.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3312398

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