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Title
Views of Tasmania, ca. 1879-1885 / photographs by Anson Bros.
Creator
Anson Brothers
Call number
PXA 504
Level of description
fonds
Date

ca. 1879-1881
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
431112
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 album (24 photoprints) - albumen - 29.4 x 34.8 cm.
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

J.W. Beattie was employed at Anson Bros. Studios 1882-1891. In 1891 Beattie purchased Anson Bros. Studio and negatives, later printing them under his own name.

Reference:
From notes by Alan Davies, Curator, State Library of NSW, 1984
Scope and Content
Title page shows medals won at Sydney and Melbourne Exhibitions of 1879 and 1880.

1. Government House [ Hobart]
2. Hobart from the Harbour
3. Hobart from the Huon Road
4. Hobart from McGregors
5. The Esplanade [Hobart]
6. Town Hall [Hobart]
7. Museum [Hobart]
8. Murray Street [Hobart]
9. St Johns Church New Town
10. Murray Street [Hobart showing William Burgess & Co. ; Bidencop Tailor & Hatter and studio of J. Bishop-Osborne]
11. New Town
12. Sandy Bay
13. Mount Wellington
14. Track to Mount Wellington
15. Ferntree Bower
16. Silver Falls
17. Fern Scenery
18. Ploughed Fields [Mount Wellington]
19. Rocking Stone [Mount Wellington]
20-21. New Norfolk
22. Huon Bridge
23. Port Arthur
24. Corra Lynn [Corra Linn, Launceston]
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

The photographs are inserted into window mounts on each page.
"D.S. Mitchell" signature on title page.
Digital order no:Album ID : 1045799
Signatures / Inscriptions

Photographs are titled on album page below image.
"Photographs by Anson Brothers Prize Medalists Sydney & Melbourne Exhibitions Wellington Bridge Hobart" on title page.
Date note

Undated. The view of Murray Street, Hobart (no. 10) shows the studio of J. Bishop-Osborne who was at that address 1879-1883.
Reference:
The mechanical eye in Australia : photography 1841-1900 / Alan Davies & Peter Stanbury ; with assistance from Con Tanre. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985.

The view of Port Arthur (no.23) can be dated 1883-88 (the church was burnt in 1883, and is earlier than a similar view dated 1888 in Settlement of Port Arthur (Penal Settlement), Past and Present / Photographed by Anson Bros., Wellington Bridge, Hobart, PXD 512/no.2)
Subject
David Scott Mitchell Collection.
Photograph albums--Tasmania
Topic
buildings, structures & establishments
ferns
harbours
horsedrawn vehicles
mountains
museums
roads & streets
town halls
Place
Government House (Hobart, Tas.)
Hobart (Tas.)
Port Arthur (Tas.)
St. John's Church (New Town, Tas.)
Tasmania
Wellington, Mount (Tas.)
New Norfolk (Tas.)
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