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836585
  • Title
    Photographs of Tasmania, ca. 1860-1891 / John Watt Beattie
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXA 508
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1860-1891
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    836585
  • Physical Description
    25 photographic prints - each approx. 17.5 x 21 cms in one volume - albumen
  • Finding Aids
    Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -
  • Description source

    Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
  • General note

    Most photographs are titled on print or in pencil on mount.

    Keyword subjects:
    Anson Brothers
    Clifford, Samuel
    Lanne, William Truganini
    Woolley, Charles
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Three photographs (nos. 5, 11, 12) are signed 'Anson'. Album cover reads 'Photographs of Tasmania, by J.W. Beattie'. Title page reads as above followed by Wellington Bridge, 'Hobart'.
  • Date note

    Earliest photograph (no. 11) is dated '1860' on print, latest date 1891 taken from Beattie's employment at Anson Bros. Studio 1882-1891, compared with Davies, Alan, 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia', Melbourne, O.U.P., 1985
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