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Print
411744
  • Title
    William Sandford, ca. 1894 / The Crown Studios, the rococo portrait, George & Market Sts, Sydney
  • Creator
  • Call number
    Cataloguing in progress
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1894
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    411744
  • Physical Description
    1 photographic print - panel photoprint (rococo portrait) - image 14.1 x 9.8 cm. ; mount 18.7 x 11 cm.
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    William Sandford, 1840-1932, arrived in New South Wales in 1883. In 1886 he hired the Eskbank iron Works at Lithgow which he bought in 1894. He was the first in Australia to manufacture steel from an open hearth furnace and was interested in the question of tariffs and subsidies for industry. In Jan. 1908 he sold the Lithgow plant.
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  • General note

    Photographer's stamp
    Transferred from the Small Pictures File, Mitchell Library Reading Room, 2013 - P1/Sandford, William in September 2024.
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    W Sandford -- signature on lower edge of photograph
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