• Title
  Sydney Observatory (H.C. Russell in doorway)
• Call number
  SPF/301
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  [ca. 1860]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  412644
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - albumen photoprint - 25 x 30.5 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Russell joined the Sydney Observatory [in 1859] under Rev. W. Scott. In 1862-64 he was acting director and was appointed government astronomer in 1870. Reference: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.6 (pp.74-5)
• General note
  
  Dated from the same photograph "Sydney Observatory from the south shortly after completion, about 1860" reproduced in: Sydney Observatory : a conservation plan for the site and its structures / James Semple Kerr. Sydney : Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, c1991. (p.23)
  Digital order no:a089301
  This item has been catalogued and digitised under a project funded and supported by the State Library of New South Wales Foundation, 2001.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled on reverse
• Name
  Russell, Henry Chamberlain, 1836-1907
  
• Topic
  observatories
  
• Place
  Sydney Observatory (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1232840

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