• Title
  Photographic Views in Tasmania [being mainly of Hobart and Port Arthur, ca. 1868-1891] / by Anson Brothers
• Creator
  Anson Brothers
• Call number
  PX*D 221
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1868-1891
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  442444
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (60 photoprints) - 41.5 x 34.7 cm. - albumen
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Anson Brothers purchased Samuel Clifford's studio in 1878. J.W. Beattie worked for Anson Brothers 1882-1891. In 1891 Beattie bought Anson Brothers studio and negatives publishing them as his own.
  
  Reference:
  From notes by Alan Davies, Curator, State Library of NSW, 1984
• Scope and Content
  1. Hobart, from the Bay (photograph of painting)
  2. Hobart, from Bellerive
  3. Hobart, from Huon Road
  4. Hobart, from Glebe
  5. Hobart, from Mt Nelson
  6. Macquarie Street, Hobart
  7. [Bank of Van Diemen's Land or Union Bank of Australia]
  8. Government House, Hobart [from the Bay]
  9. Government House, Hobart [Prince Alfred's coach party outside Government House. Prince with reins, Governor Gore Brown in top hat seated behind / photographed by S. Clifford]
  10. St John's Church, New Town
  11. New Norfolk, from Pulpit Rock
  12. Bush Hotel, New Norfolk / Anson
  13. View [of Shot Tower] from Bonnet Hill
  14. South Arm form Mt. Nelson
  15. Cape Raoul
  16. View from Brown Mountain; looking towards Port Arthur
  17. Entrance to Port Arthur from Point Puer / Anson
  18. Point Puer - Port Arthur
  19. Dead Island, Port Arthur
  20. Port Arthur, from Dead Island
  21. Port Arthur During Convict Occupation
  22. Port Arthur from Scorpion Hill / Anson [taken 1888]
  23. Port Arthur from Scorpion Hill / Anson [taken 1888]
  24. Hotel, Late Commandants Residence, Port Arthur
  25. View from Balcony, Commandant's Quarters, Port Arthur / Anson
  26. Port Arthur and Mount Arthur / Anson
  27. Prison Buildings & Jetty, Port Arthur
  28. Penitentiary and Mount Arthur, Port Arthur / Anson
  29. Hall and Cell Corridors, Penitentiary, Port Arthur
  30. Hall and Cell Corridors, Port Arthur
  31. Cell Corridors, Penitentiary, Port Arthur
  32. Mess Room, Penitentiary, Port Arthur
  33. Dormitory, Penitentiary, Port Arthur / Anson
  34. Lunatic Asylum, & Invalid Depot, Port Arthur
  35. Entrance Hall, Lunatic Asylum, Port Arthur
  36. Model Prision, Port Arthur / Anson
  37. Entrance to Chapel, Model Prison, Port Arthur
  38. Interior of Model Chapel, Port Arthur
  39. Exercise Yards & Solitary Cell, Model Prison, Port Arthur
  40. Cape Pillar & Tasman's Peninsular
  41. Eaglehawk Neck, Tasman Peninsular / Anson
  42. Natural pavement, Eaglehawk Neck, Tasman Peninsula
  43. Tasman's Arch, Tasman Peninsular
  44. Old Prison Building, Coal Mines, Port Arthur
  45. Commissariat Store, Coal Mines, Port Arthur
  46. Hell's Gates Macquarie Harbour Outside
  47. Old Court and Sarah Island, Macquarie Harbour
  48. Old Docks Sarah Island, Macquarie Harbour
  49. Condemned Island from Sarah Island
  50. The Frenchman Range from Mt. Arrowsmith
  51. Lake George - Mr King William
  52. Mt Ida - Lake St. Clair from South West
  53. Mt Olympus - from North End of Lake St. Clair
  54. Cynthia Bay - Lake St. Clair - Entrance to River Derwent
  55. Launceston from Cataract Hill [Kings Bridge]
  56. Launceston from Windmill and Hill
  57. Launceston and Invermay from Trevallyn
  58. Cataract Gorge and Track
  59. Old Church Sidmouth on Tamar River
  60. Garden Island and George Town, Tamar River
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Individual photographs titled on print (some include the photographer's series number) or in pencil on mount.
• General note
  
  Transferred from the Mitchell Library Printed Books Collection F986/A,
  December 1984
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1290399
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Some photographs signed Anson Bros and J.W. Beattie.
  Titled on spine.
  
  "D.S. Mitchell" signature on front endpaper.
• Date note
  
  Undated. Earliest date that of Duke of Edinburgh's coach party outside Government House, photographed by S. Clifford (see: "THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH IN TASMANIA." The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860-1954) 20 Jan 1868). Latest date by comparison with other Beattie photographs.
• Conservation note
  
  Pages detached from the spine
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Beattie, J. W. (John Watt), 1859-1930
  Clifford, Samuel, 1827-1890
  
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Photograph albums--Tasmania
  
• Topic
  banks
  buildings, structures & establishments
  churches
  harbours
  hotels & taverns
  official residences
  prison cells
  prisons
  psychiatric hospitals
  rivers
  roads & streets
  city & town views
  
• Place
  Eaglehawk Neck (Tas.)
  Government House (Hobart, Tas.)
  Hobart (Tas.)
  Launceston (Tas.)
  Macquarie Harbour (Tas.)
  Port Arthur (Tas.)
  Cape Raoul (Tas.)
  St. John's Church (New Town, Tas.)
  Tamar River (Tas.)
  Tasman Peninsula (Tas.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3311116

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