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95308
  • Title
    Tumut photographic album : presented to Mrs T. Hughes, Lady Mayoress of Sydney, in commemoration of the opening of the Tumut Railway, October 12 1903
  • Call number
    PXA 470
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1890-1903
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    95308
  • Physical Description
    1 album (36 printing-out paper photoprints) - gelatin silver - 28 x 37 cm.
  • Scope and Content
    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]
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright:
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Description source

    Titled `Tumut' on front cover
  • General note

    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)
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    Captioned below each image
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