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9643341
  • Title
    Photograph album of views of South Australia, New Zealand, Sydney, New South Wales, and Melbourne, between 1872? and 1886? / Samuel Sweet, Finch, and unknown photographers
  • Call number
    PXE 1772
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    [between 1872? and 1886?]
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    9643341
  • Physical Description
    94 photographic prints (on pages removed from 1 album) - albumen
  • Collection history
    By descent through family to donor.
  • Scope and Content
    BOX 1
    1. King William Street [Adelaide, S.A.] / Photographer: Samuel Sweet
    2. Rundle Street [Adelaide, S.A.] / Photographer: Samuel Sweet
    3. Institute and North Terrace [Adelaide, S.A.]
    4. Town Hall [Adelaide, S.A.]
    5. St. Andrews Cathedral [Sydney, N.S.W.]
    6. Town Hall, Sydney
    7. Point Piper [Sydney, N.S.W.]
    8. Manly Beach [Sydney, N.S.W.]
    9. Gap and Heads [Sydney, N.S.W.]
    10. Bondi [Sydney, N.S.W.]
    11. Parramatta River [Sydney, N.S.W.]
    12. Balmain. Mans' Point from Long Nose Point [Sydney, N.S.W.]
    13. Botanic Gardens [Sydney, N.S.W.]
    14. Government House & Lane Cove [Farm Cove] [Sydney, N.S.W.]
    15. Jetty Semaphore [South Australia]
    16. Port Adelaide [South Australia]
    17. Post Office [Adelaide, S.A.]
    18. Government buildings Victoria Bridge Ch. Ch. [Christchurch, N.Z.]
    19. Hereford North from corner of Bank of N.Z. Christchurch
    20. Cathedral Square Ch. Ch. [Christchurch, N.Z.]
    21. Bridge in Public Gardens Ch. Ch. [Christchurch, N.Z.]
    22-23. Avon Ch. Ch. [Christchurch, N.Z.]
    24. Government House [Adelaide, S.A.?]
    25. Botanic Gardens [Adelaide, S.A.]
    26. Botanic Gardens and Hospital, [Adelaide, S.A., 1872 / Samuel Sweet]
    27. Botanic Gardens [Adelaide, S.A.]
    28. Cathedral [South Australia]
    29. Kent Town Brewery, [1880] [South Australia]
    30. Gully n. Adelaide
    31. Gully n. Adelaide range. Mount Lofty
    32. Victoria School and Asylum for the Blind [Melbourne, Vic.]
    33. Deaf and Dumb Aslylum [Asylum] [Melbourne, Vic.]
    34. The public Library [Melbourne, Vic.]
    35. The Houses of Parliament [Melbourne, Vic.?]
    36. Waterfall n. Adelaide
    37. Post Office [Melbourne, Vic.]
    38. Town Hall [Melbourne, Vic.]

    BOX 2
    39. Road to Glenbar [South Australia]
    40. Post Office [South Australia]
    41. Institute [South Australia]
    42. Presbyterian Church [South Australia]
    43. Bank to Hooper’s [South Australia]
    44. Presbyterian Church and Bell’s Store [bridge over the Angas River near St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Strathalbyn, S.A.]
    45. Wallaroo Mines. Pay Box. Commodore Goodenough and Officers [South Australia]
    46. Collins Street from Russell Street [Melbourne, Vic.]
    47. Swanston Street looking South [Melbourne, Vic.]
    48. Fitzroy Gardens. Statue of Diana [Melbourne, Vic.]
    49. Carlton Gardens [Melbourne, Vic.]
    50. Wellington. Thornton End. [N.Z.]
    51. Te Arc End [Wellington, N.Z.]
    52. Government Buildings [Wellington, N.Z.?
    53. Maoris nr. Masterton [N.Z.]
    54. Port Chalmers 287 [N.Z.]
    55. Dunedin from Heriot Row 439 [N.Z.]
    56-57. Zigzag [N.S.W.]
    58. Govett’s Leap [N.S.W.]
    59. Lithgow Valley [N.S.W.]
    60. Auckland [N.Z.]
    61-62. Botanic Gardens [Sydney, N.S.W.]
    63. The University [University of Sydney]
    64. The Residence of B. Owen Esq. Mt. Eden [N.Z.]
    65. Domain with Hospital in the distance [Adelaide, S.A.]
    66-67. Nelson N.Z.
    68. Bishopsdale. Nelson N.Z.

    BOX 3
    69. Nelson N.Z.
    70. Rematuka Hill. Featherstone Side [Remutaka Range, N.Z.]
    71. Rematuka. Wellington Side [Remutaka Range, N.Z.]
    72. The Pink Terrace. Rotomahana. General View [N.Z.]
    73. The Pink Terrace. The Grand Buttress [N.Z.]
    74. The White Terrace. Rotomahana [N.Z.]
    75. The Pink Terrace. The bottom[?] looking towards Sulphur Springs [N.Z.]
    76-78. Halfway Bay. Lake Wakatipu [N.Z.] / Finch
    79. Mount Remarkable. L. Wakatipu [i.e. Lake Wakatipu]. Queenstown [N.Z.]
    80. Supreme Court. River Avon. Victoria Bridge. Christchurch
    81. Museum from Garden Ch. Ch. [Christchurch, N.Z.]
    82. Skeletons of Moa. Ch. Ch. [Christchurch, N.Z.]
    83.C. Fells'. Nelson N.Z.
    84. Waimea River Nelson
    85. Lyttelton from Governors’ Bay Road [N.Z.]
    86. Dunedin from Elder Street [N.Z.]
    87. Cargill Monument & Colonial Bank. Dunedin 292 [N.Z.]
    88. Shutonger[?] Bridge. Queenstown / Finch [N.Z.]
    89. Queenstown 560 [N.Z.]
    90. Featherstone N.Z.
    91. The Whistle. Rotomahana [N.Z.]
    92. Chinemutu [N.Z.?]
    93-94. Nelson. N.Z.

    BOX 4
    Album (empty) from which pages of photographs have been removed.

  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Created before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    One page of album inscribed in hand different to photograph captions "Photographer: Samuel Sweet".
    Photographs captioned below images.
  • Date note

    Date range devised by cataloguer based on a copy of no. 26, dated ca. 1872, held by the State Library of South Australia at B 7308, and the disappearance of the Pink and White Terraces after the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886.
  • Conservation note

    Pages removed from album at unknown date.
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