Bingara photographs, ca. 1880-1910 / photographed by John C.L. Veness

PXA 1136
ON 303

fonds

ca. 1880-1910

Graphic Materials, Photographs

825521

Copy print : PXA 1136

45 negatives - glass, incl. 10 cracked or broken - 16.5 x 21.5 cm. or smaller
44 photographic prints - gelatin silver - 16.5 x 21.5 cm.

John C.L. Veness was the proprietor of the Bingara Telegraph

Reference:
Library correspondence file

The photographs were given to Glenda Hughes’ father Lionel Esmond Reece by the photographer John Veness

1. Bingara township
2. Gwydir River, Bingara
3. Unidentified group
4-5. Bingara Hospital
6. Bird’s-eye view of Bingara
7. Maitland St., Bingara
8. Maitland Street
9. Bicycle club group ?
10. Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney
11-12. Maitland Street
13. Bingara Telegraph printing office (newspaper); (l to r) John C.L. Veness, Mrs Veness and Mr E. Robinson (Mrs Veness’s brother)
14-15. Maitland Street ?
16. Unidentified group
17. Maitland Street
18. Unidentified group
19. Bingara Bridge
20. Bingara Post Office
21. Maitland Street
22. Township
23. Maitland Street
24. Ploughing
25. Masonic Temple
26. T-model Ford
27. Reddings baker shop, Maitland Street
28. Bull Bros., Big River near Gooringora
29. Millinery shop and H. Elkington, merchant importer
30. Maitland Street
31. T-model Ford
32. Millinery shop and H.H. Vallis, merchant importer, Maitland Street
33. Group
34. Diamond mining ? or farming ?
35. Bingara flood, 1910
36. The River, Bingara
37. Maitland Street
38. Square Hotel, lic. George Wilkinson
39. Maitland Street
40. Wedding reception, Imperial Hotel
41. Maitland Street
42. Bullock team
43. Laying the foundation stone, Catholic Church, ca. 1880
44. Paddock and Bingara in the background
45. Laying the foundation stone, Catholic Church, ca. 1880 (no copy print)

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Captions chiefly from donor when there is no caption on the negative

Nos 26 & 31 T-model Ford may have belonged to Mr Finkernagel, Fader or Veness