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16492
  • Title
    Photographs of Western Australia
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXA 649
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1893-1900 (dated from Nixon & Merrilees entry in The mechanical eye in Australia, photography 1841-1900 / Alan Davies & Peter Stanbury)
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    16492
  • Physical Description
    1 album (58 photoprints) - albumen - 23.5 x 31 cm.
  • Scope and Content
    1. Day Dawn Mine
    2. Bayley's Reward, underlay shaft
    3. Bayley's Reward
    4. Wealth of Nations, outcrop & reef
    5. Wealth of Nations, south view
    6. Government Tank, Kararawatee
    7. Frazer's Mine, Southern Cross
    8. Tank, Royal Mint G.M.Co. Hannan's
    9. The Cement, White Feather
    10. Geraldton Lighthouse
    11. Cue, township
    12. Half Way House, Coolgardie Rd.
    13. Southern Cross
    14. Southern Cross (north)
    15. Hannan's, from Mt. Charlotte, 1894
    16. Street scene, Hannan's, 1894
    17. Switch, Zig Zag
    18. Dongarra, bridge
    19. Jarrah cutters
    20. [men driving line of cattle]
    21. [long wooden bridge]
    22. Canning Mills
    23-24. Jarrahdale Mills
    25-26. View on Albany Line
    27-28. Serpentine Falls
    29. York Sw. Bridge
    30. [Township]
    31. Picton River
    32. Sheep washing, Moon River
    33-36. Bunbury
    37. Aboriginals, Coolgardie
    38-40. Perth
    41. Perth, Hay St.
    42. Government House, Perth
    43. [Lighthouse]
    44. South Beach, Fremantle
    45. Fremantle Gaol
    46. Town Hall, Fremantle
    47-48. Fremantle Jetty
    49. Fremantle
    50. Fremantle, High St.
    51. Rocky Bay
    52. The rocks, Rottnest
    53. Brewery, Fremantle
    54. Daw's Fire
    55-56. Point Walter
    57. Lookout, Rottnest
    58. Rottnest Island
  • Access Conditions

    Access via appointment
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Nixon & Merrilees lower right on no. 29
    Caption printed along lower edges of photographs and also inscribed in ink on mounts.
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