[Five photographs of Bathurst, ca. 1870] / by William Nelson

PXB 443

fonds

ca. 1870

Graphic Materials, Photographs

455675

Photographs - 7.8 x 15.8 cm. mounted on cards 8.2 x 17.3 cm. - printed in a panoramic format on stereoscopic mounts - 5 albumen print photographs

William Nelson is listed as having a studio in William Street, Bathurst, 1868-1871 -- Reference: The mechanical eye in Australia : photography 1841-1900 / Alan Davies & Peter Stanbury ; with assistance from Con Tanre. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985

1. [Unknown hotel]
2. [Commercial Bank of Sydney, previously the Union Bank]
3. Durack's Family Hotel
4. Methodist Church, William St
5. St Michael & St John Catholic Church

No 2 titled from PXA 4999 Box 53 No 149; nos 3-5 titled in pencil on reverse in later hand
"W. Nelson, Photographic Artist, Bathurst" printed on reverse of each mount
No.4 shows the Methodist Church before major alterations between 1874 and 1876 when the entrance was reconstructed and a spire added