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17293
  • Title
    [Views of the Blue Mountains, ca. 1883-1885] / photographs by Caney & Co.
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXA 500
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1883-1885 (dated from The Mechanical Eye in Australia by Alan Davies & Peter Stanbury)
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    17293
  • Physical Description
    1 album (20 photoprints) - albumen - 27.5 x 36.5 cm.
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Caney & Co. operated from Mt. Victoria, New South Wales between 1883-1885. -- Reference: The mechanical eye in Australia / Alan Davies & Peter Stanbury. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985
  • Scope and Content
    1. Wentworth Falls.
    2. Garden Palace, about 10in. high (Imperial). Mount Victoria
    3. Nelly's Grotto, Imperial Cave. Mount Victoria
    4. [People beside a pool at a waterfall.]
    5. Katoomba Falls.
    6. Mrs. Cousins' Look-down. Mount Victoria
    7. [Waterfall.]
    8. Weeping Rock, Wentworth Falls.
    9. The Gt. Zig Zag from Upper Points.
    10-11. [Zig Zag Railway.]
    12. "Govett's Profile" Mount Victoria
    13. [Women at a pool near a waterfall.]
    14. Katoomba (from The Cricket Ground).
    15. Exhibition, Lucas Cave, Mount Victoria
    16. [Mountain look-out.]
    17. Lot's Wife, about 6ft. high (Imperial), Mount Victoria
    18. Gap at Hassan's Walls, Mount Victoria
    19. Snow storm in Mt. Victoria.
    20. [Rock formation.]
  • Access Conditions

    Access via appointment
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Captions appear along lower edge of most photographs, including "Caney Photo" and "Mt. Victoria".
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