Item 15: Photographs of New Zealand and Tasmania, ca.1882-1891 / Anson Brothers

PXA 577

file

ca. 1882-1891

Graphic Materials, Photographs

826219

42 Photographs (1 volume) - 30.4 x 25 cm - albumen

Formerly owned by Reverend Dr. James Cosh.

Included are views in Dunedin, Christchurch, Wairakei, Rotorua, Milford Sound, Hobart, Launceston, Port Arthur, New Town and Eagle Hawk Neck.

Also included is a photograph of the gun emplacement at Bradleys Head, Sydney.

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project 2008-2009

Some photographs are signed on the negative ''G.W.W', 'J.V', 'J.M', 'Beattie', 'S. Spurling', 'Anson', and numbered with a negative number.

Twenty eight are titled on the negative or in ink on mount.

None of the volumes are dated; the collection is dated approximately from other photographs by Beattie, Anson Bros. Studio and Spurling in the collection (Reference : PXA 505-PXA 509 and Davies, Alan, The Mechanical Eye in Australia. Melbourne, OUP, 1985)