Portrait of an unidentified woman, 1855 -1860 and three sketchbooks of Australian and overseas views, ca. 1896 / by Charles Vernon Wilson

MIN 501
FM2/2073

fonds

ca. 1855 - ca. 1896

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings

901085

1 photograph - 9.3 x 11.7 cm - stereoscopic daguerreotype, hand coloured in leather case with viewer:
90 photonegatives - 35 mm: ;

MIN 501
Portrait of an unidentified woman, stereoscopic daguerreotype, hand coloured, with viewer in Mascher case.

FM2 / 2073
Three sketchbooks are copied onto 35 mm negatives. The original albums measure 18 x 11.5 cm, 22 x 12.5 cm, 12.5 x 8 cm. They contain pencil sketches of overseas views and some Australian views including: Latrobe River, Mitchell River, Bairnsdale, Paynesville, Tamar River, Launceston, Evandale, South Esk River, Huon River, Cascade, Lane Cove, Johnstone's Bay, Cooktown, Cape York, Port Darwin. Contents list filed with negatives.

Access via appointment - Applies to MIN 501

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

Pic.Acc. Update Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.6451 as part of the eRecords Project, 2012-2013

Leather case inscribed inside "Mascher's Improved/Stereoscope Patented/ March 8 1853 No. 408 N2d [?] Philadelphia".

Hinge on the case is breaking apart and the leather is wearing. Negatives are in good condition.