Tumut photographic album : presented to Mrs T. Hughes, Lady Mayoress of Sydney, in commemoration of the opening of the Tumut Railway, October 12 1903

PXA 470

fonds

ca. 1890-1903

Graphic Materials, Photographs

95308

1 album (36 printing-out paper photoprints) - gelatin silver - 28 x 37 cm.

1. Bridges crossing Murrumbidgee River on road to Tumut
2. Murrumbidgee River in flood at Gundagai
3. Teamster's camp at chrome mines, near Tumut
4. Home of a Murrumbidgee "Whaler"
5. Miner's camp near Tumut
6. Town of Tumut
7. Another view of Tumut, showing Tumut River in flood
8. Tumut River from Bridge
9. Bridge over the Tumut River at Tumut
10. Tumut River from Jones' Bridge, Blowering
11. Avenue leading to Racecourse
12. Grandstand, Tumut Racecourse
13. Lawn, Tumut Racecourse
14. Committee Stand, Racecourse, at opening [of railway]
15. Tumut Showground
16. Departure of 1st Contingent from Tumut to South Africa
17. View of proposed Federal Capital site at Lacmalac
18. Tumut River near Blowering
19. Blowering Falls
20. Fern Gully at Blowering near Tumut
21(a&b). Poplar Avenues at Bombowlee
22-3. Buddong Falls, Nos.1 & 2.
24. Entrance to caves at Yarrangobilly
25. Trout stream at Yarrangobilly
26. Snow-shoeing at Kiandra
27. Observatory on Mt. Kosciusko
28-9. Trigonometrical Station, summit of Mt. Kosciusko, in summer & in winter
30. Snow crystals, summit of Mt. Kosciusko
31. View on Tumut River
32. Blue Lake (highest water in Australia), Mt. Kosciusko
33-5. Tumut Aborigine - before & after the Ball [ca.1890s]

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Titled `Tumut' on front cover

Nos. 33-5 attributed to the photographer Thomas Cleary by the Curator of Photographs, Mitchell Library, July 1997, on the basis of a comparison with a series of Cleary photographs held at the Public Record Office, Kew, U.K. -- Reference: The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust of Australia / report by Alan Davies 1986 Fellow (p.98)

Captioned below each image