Photograph album of New South Wales, ca. 1880-1890, with postcards, ca.1907-1920, 1938

PXD 1246
PXB 635

fonds

ca. 1880-1890, ca.1907-1920, 1938

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera

914009

approx. 200 ephemera items (postcards)
1 album (380 photographs and approx. 203 postcards) - 55 x 39 cm.

The album was begun by an acquaintance of the donor's father, who worked in Lands Department and was a keen photographer. To this album were added postcards of cats collected by the donor's grandmother and English postcards from his father, ca. 1914-1915. The donor's mother came from England in 1919. The donor extracted from the album photos re rowing clubs, which he presented to the Maritime Museum. The donor did not know the name of the Lands Department man who took the photos. Source: ML file

PXD 1246

Album containing 379 albumen and silver gelatin views of New South Wales, including: Lane Cove (Gore’s Creek); Port Hacking; Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains; Junction Falls and Adelina Falls at Lawson; Middle Harbour; Port Hacking views including Port Hacking River above the dam at Loftus, Hall’s Cottage, Costen’s Cottage (Easter 1888), Simpson’s Hotel; Cook’s River; Old Lands Office; Mossman’s [sic] Bay; Junction of Nepean River & Waragamba [sic] River; Nepean River near the Basin; Sydney Heads; Rushcutter’s Bay; View from Spit at Middle Harbour; [Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney]; Head of Bantry Bay, Middle Harbour; unidentified outdoor group portrait of approx. 50 men; Melbourne & Sydney Lands Offices Cricket Picnic, 1888; unveiling Queen’s statue, Centennial time, 1888; Dante’s Glen, Lawson, Blue Mountains; Butcher’s shop, Hawkesbury River; Placing 3rd span of Hawkesbury River bridge in position; Brooklyn, Hawkesbury River; Athol Gardens, Sydney; La Perouse Monument, Botany Bay; Wagga Wagga; Bomborah off Dobroyde [sic]; [Royal] National Park; Encampment at Middle Head; Sydney Rowing Club’s branch, Parramatta River; Bottle and Glass [Rocks]; Fletcher’s Glen, Bondi; Birthplace of Sir Henry Parkes; [view of large house with widow’s walk at corner of Tintern Rd, Ashfield]; Bulli Pass; Fitzroy Falls; Mt Wilson; Meryla Falls; Woronora, George’s River; Govett’s Leap; Leura Falls; Nellie’s Glen, Katoomba; The Explorer’s Tree, Katoomba; View of the Kinimbla [sic] Valley from the Bathurst Road; Bushranger’s Cave, Mt Victoria; Grose Valley; Garie, National Park; Rachel, Wentworth Falls; Mermaid’s Cave, Blackheath [titled Fairy Bower in image]; Frederica Cascade, Lawson; Jamieson Valley, Wentworth Falls; Mount Allen Hotel, Wentworth Falls; Breakfast Point, Wentworth Falls; Little Hartley from the Bathurst Road; Lilly Vale, Illawarra line; Ryde Bridge; Warragamba River; Erskine Creek, Nepean; Ross’s Cave, Mt Victoria; Mt Piddington; The Terraces at Hazelbrook; Peats Ferry, Hawkesbury River; Lodden [sic] Falls, near Bulli; Homestead at Mt Kembla near Wollongong; Valley at Jenolan Caves; Accommodation House at Jenolan Caves; The Big Tree at Bulli – 60 ft in circumference; Carlotta Arch, Jenolan Caves; view of houses in Cumberland St, Sydney; Mt Tomar [sic]; Cambewarra Pass; Suspension Bridge, Middle Harbour; Cox’s River; Devil’s Coach House, Jenolan Caves; Coogee; Old Market, Sydney. Includes some unidentified views in Sydney city and some views in England and Italy. Approx. 203 Australian and overseas postcards at back of volume.

PXB 635

Approx. 200 loose postcards, mostly addressed to Miss Lucy Talbot, Stockport, England, and postmarked between 1907 and 1920. Predominantly overseas views, cats and some Australian views, including Minnehaha Falls, Katoomba, Narrabeen. One postcard print of two men and two women in a street, annotated on verso: "Luita King, Alfred King, Adelaide - her husband, W. T. Johnson, c.1938".

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

PXD 1246: Many album pages are brittle and crumbling. Album lacks back cover. Pic.Acc.5066 fumigated 31/3/82