Photograph album compiled by Lieutenant Barrett of the Royal Navy while doing a survey of the Atlantic Trench from [Cape du Vende] to the Falkland Islands on board "HMS Cleopatra", c. 1880s

PXA 1496

fonds

ca. 1880s

Graphic Materials, Photographs

421015

1 album (29 photographic prints) - 28 x 23 x 3 cm.
7 photographs - albumen - 18 x 22 cm. or smaller

Cloth-bound album containing 29 silver gelatin and albumen photoprints. Embossed green cover with gold-coloured trim. Includes photographs of Sydney Harbour, Double Bay, Neutral Bay and the Garden Palace):

1. [Crew of HMS Cleopatra, assembled on deck]
2. [Photographed painting of HMS Cleopatra in an unidentified bay with many rowboats]
3. [Unidentified veiled woman]
4. [Unidentified costumed woman]
5. [Unidentified veiled woman]
6. [Crew of HMS Cleopatra]
7. [Photographed drawing of HMS Cleopatra]
8. Chart showing the track of the HMS D[errick?] from Falkland I[slands] to St Helena I[sland] April 17th to May 9th, 1881 and ... [remaining text faded]
9. [HMS Cleopatra]
10-12. [Paintings of MHS Cleopatra in rough seas]
13. [Crew of HMS Cleopatra]
14. [Unidentified costumed woman]
15. [Unidentified veiled woman]
16. Double Bay, Sydney, Australia [1881]
17. Government [House] grounds, Sydney [1881]
18. Double Bay [1881]
19. Neutral Bay [1881]
20. Sydney Exhibition from Farm Cove [showing Garden Palace, 1881]
21. Telegraph House, Observatory Island, Port Hamilton
22. Officers. HMS "Cleopatra", China. 1st Commission
23. Port Hamilton, Observatory Island. Camber & store houses "Cockchafer" village
24. [Unidentified buildings]
25. [Unidentified group of men in national costumes]
26. [4 unidentified men on camels]
27. [Unidentified veiled woman with boy on a donkey]
28. [Drawing of unidentified woman talking to a man through a window]
29. [Unidentified costumed woman]

Loose photos (Pic.Acc.5392/2-8):
2. [HMS Cleopatra]
3-4. [Unidentified landscapes]
5. [Group portrait of unidentified men in national costume]
6. [Group portrait of unidentified men & women, some in national costume]
7-8. [Unidentified coastal landscapes]

Out of copyright: Created before 1955.
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Pic.Acc. Update P3

"HMS Cleopatra" was in Sydney in 1881

The Sydney and Western Australian images within the Album are identified in ink handwriting in the page margins

Inside covers of album have extensive foxing. One photo torn.
Photographs - creased and torn with some pieces missing.