• Title
  Stereoscopic view of George Street, south of Hunter Street, Sydney, [1859] / by William Hetzer
• Creator
  William Hetzer, active 1850-1867
• Call number
  PXB 1728
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [1859]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  9623532
• Physical Description
  1 photograph - mount 8.3 x 17.2 cm (stereograph format) - print on card mount
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  William Hetzer arrived in Sydney from Germany in 1850 and opened a photographic studio the same year at 51 Hunter Street, advertising calotype (salt prints), portraits and views. Hetzer specialised in paper photography and captured the market for stereographic views and carte-de-visite portraits. In 1858 he produced an album of 36 stereoviews of Sydney which proved popular with the public and by 1859 he had increased the series to 60 stereoviews. Moving to new premises at 314 George Street in 1858 and then 287 George Street in 1859, he mentored local amateur photographers as well as continuing with his commercial studio work.
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
• Collection history
  Acquired by vendor from Edward Michaleski, an Ohio photography and antique dealer, 2018.
• Scope and Content
  Comprises one stereoscopic albumen print photographs on grey mount of a view looking south along George Street, taken from an elevated position on the west side, close to the bottom end of Hunter Street. Possibly taken from the first floor balcony of Hetzer's own studio which was located at 287 George St (opposite Hunter Street) from 1859. The view is from Hetzer's 1858-1859 'Stereoscopic views of Sydney and Environs' series.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Date devised by cataloguer based on 1859 newspaper article listing a view of George Street.
  
  Reference:
  General Progress in Art. (1859, May 13). The Sydney Morning Herald, p. 9., http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13024893 (accessed 2 January 2019)
• Variant title
  
  Stereoscopic views of Sydney and Environs
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Title in manuscript on verso with printed photographer label pasted to mount card. Photographer's label reads: Stereoscopic views of Sydney and Environs by W. Hetzer, Photographic Artist, 287 George Street, Sydney NSW.
• Subject
  Photography--New South Wales--19th century.
  Photography, Stereoscopic
  Stereoscopic views.
  Commercial photography--New South Wales--Sydney.
  
• Place
  George Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20034719

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