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1008755
  • Title
    [Railway construction workers near Wagga, New South Wales, ca. 1890] / photographer E. Henningham
  • Creator
  • Call number
    SV/324
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    [ca. 1890]
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    1008755
  • Physical Description
    1 photographic print - 25 x 30 cm - albumen on card
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Ernest Penry Henningham was a prominent Wagga photographer (with the patronage of Lord Carrington). He took commissions for studio portraiture and also took a range of documentary images. Henningham had premises in Fitzmaurice Street from 1888 until 1926. The Henningham family resided at "Boisdale", in Tarcutta Street, Wagga Wagga.

    Reference:
    Library correspondence file
  • Scope and Content
    Photograph of 27 fettlers and their foreman, posing with their picks and shovels, horses and carts, and dogs.
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright:
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Stamped on mount, lower margin: E. Hemmingham, Wagga, N.S.W.
    Inscribed, in pencil, on verso: Coleman
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