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Title
Views of Sydney and its streets, 1868-1881 / compiled by John Lane Mullins
Creator
John Lane Mullins, 1857-1939
Call number
PXA 420
Level of description
fonds
Date

1868-1881
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
836375
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 album (166 photoprints) - albumen - 28 x 38 cm
Scope and Content
1a. The Gap South Head
1b. South Cliff of the Gap
2a. Jacobs Ladder, South Head
2b. South Cliff of the Gap
3a. The Hornby Light, South Head
3b. In Middle Harbour
4a. Battery, Georges Head
4b. Battery, Georges Head
5a. Curl Curl, Manly
5b. Ocean Beach, Manly
6a. From Darling Point
6b. Darling Point
7a. Harbour from the Domain
7b. Garden Island
8a. The Garden Palace
8b. Government House
9a. Farm Cove
9b. Lavender Bay, North Shore
10a. Port Denison
10b. Potts Point
10c. Lane Cove
11a. Sydney from Pyrmont
11b. Glebe Island Bridge [and Abbatoirs]
11c. Iron Cove
12a. Spectacle Island [and Elkington Park, Balmain]
12b. Long Nose Point [Balmain]
13a. The Fitzroy Dock [Garden Island]
13b. In Middle Harbour
14a. [Coogee looking N.]
14b. At Coogee Bay
15a. [Coogee]
15b. Coogee Bay
16a. Town Hall
16b. Anglican Cathedral
17a. Transept, Cathedral
17b. Choir, Cathedral
18a. St James Church
18b. St Phillips
19a. St. Benedicts
19b. St Patricks
20a. University
20b. St. Pauls College
20c. St. Johns College
21a. St. Andrews College
21b. Exhibition Building [Prince Alfred Park]
21c. St. Vincents Hospital
22a. College St. [looking south incl. St. Marys Cathedral]
22b. Treasury
22c. Free Library
23a. Post Office
23b. Fish Market
23c. Railway Station
24a. Government House
24b. Government House
25a. Colonial Secretary’s Office [ Macquarie Street]
25b. Royal Mint [southern gate]
26a. Exchange
26b. Bank New South Wales, George street
27a. Supreme Court and King street, looking West
27b. Darlinghurst Court House
28a. Grammar school
28b. Houses of Parliament
29a. Museum
29b. School of Arts
30a. Guildhall (Gaiety Theatre - “Diplomacy’ season began, June 1881 — see SMH 18.6.1881)
30b. Hotel King st. [International Hotel]
31a. [Wool stores]
31b. [St. Mary’s cathedral c.1870]
31c. [St. Mary Cathedral 1868]
31d. Pettys Hotel
31e. Synagogue
31f. [City Bank, Pitt st.]
31g. [Unknown church]
31h. Monument to Commadore Goodenough
32a. Asylum for the Blind
32b. Observatory
33a. In George st North
33b. Commercial Bank [George st]
34a. Pitt st North
34b. George st., GPO
35a. York st.
35b. King st. East
36a. Macquarie st.
36b. Macquarie St. North
37a. Botanic Gardens
37b. [Botanic Gardens]
37c. [Botanic Gardens]
38a. [Botanic Gardens]
38b. [Botanic Gardens]
38c. [Botanic Gardens]
39a. [Botanic Gardens]
39b. [Botanic Gardens]
39c. [Botanic Gardens]
40a. Norfolk Pine
40b. Botanic Gardens
41a. Bourke statue
41b. St Mary’s Gate
41c. In the Domain [looking towards St Marys and Museum]
42a. In the Domain
42b. Moore Park
43a. Pelicans, Botanic Gardens
43b. Albert Memorial, Hyde Park
43c. In Belmore Park
44a. Randwick [Visit of Princes Albert & George 16 July 1881]
44b. Cook statue, Hyde Park.
45a. Near Willoughby Falls
45b. [Aboriginal Humpy]
46a. Belle Vue Hill
46b. at Botany [tree stump]
47a. at Manly the Corso
47b. Stradbroke Park, Paterson
47c. [Aborigine]
47d. [Koala]
47e. [Aborigine]
48a. [Bush Camp, with slab hut]
48b. Priests Grave, Botany
49a. [Hawkesbury River?]
49b. On the Hawkesbury River
50a. Views on the Nepean
50b. Views on the Nepean
50c. Views on the Nepean
51a. Views on the Nepean
51b. GWR Railway, Penrith [Bridge]
52a. Zig Zag GWR
52b. Hassan’s Walls
52c. [Zig Zag]
53a. Kunimbla [sic] Valley
53b. At Lithgow
54a. Govetts Leap
54b. Fairy Dell, Katoomba
55a. In the Grose Valley
55b. Katoomba Falls
56a. Bulli Bush
56b. Bulli Bush
57a. Fish River Caves [ Caves]
57b. [Aborigines]
57c. [Native Cats]
57d. [Fitzroy Falls]
57e. Fitzroy Falls
58a. Fish River Caves [ Jenolan Caves]
58b. Fish River Caves [ Jenolan Caves]
58c. Fish River Caves [ Jenolan Caves]
59a. Creek Wollombi
59b. Wash pool Burburgate N.E.
60a. [Sheep wash]
60b. [Sheep wash]
60c. [Homestead]
61a. Martindale station
61b. near Bundarra
61c. Hartley Creek
62a. Stonehenge N.E.
62b. near Picton
62c. On the Severn N.E.
63a. Moonbi near Tamworth
63b. [Stonehenge, N.E.]
63c. Stonehenge, N.E.
64a. At Tamworth [Peel St. in flood]
64b. Inverell
64c. Edinglassie Station
65a. at Newcastle
65b. at Lithgow
66. [Blank]
67. [Panorama of Sydney from Garden Palace] C. Bayliss Photo.
68. [Panorama of Sydney from Garden Palace] C. Bayliss Photo.
69. [ Panorama of Sydney from Garden Palace] C. Bayliss photo.
70. [Panorama of Sydney from Garden Palace] C. Bayliss photo.
71. [Panorama of Sydney from Garden Palace] C. Bayliss photo.
72. Sargent’s Distinguished Colonists of N.S.W., W. Sargent, artist [c.1877 — W. Sargent was not a photographer, but a colourist and apparently an assembler of mosaics]
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Finding Aids
Contents list filed with album and at ML Reference Shelf -
Description source

Album titled from flyleaf
Images titled from album's margin inscriptions
General note

Copy Print : SPF
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room

No. 11c: Taken from the location of the southern footing of the old Iron Cove Bridge looking west across the small bay containing King Georges Park
and sections of The Bay Run -- information supplied by client, 2015
Digital order no:Album ID : 846071
Signatures / Inscriptions

""Views of Sydney and its streets, taken in 1881 and of other parts of NSW at the same period. The large views of the Garden Palace which were subsequently burnt down [sic]. These views were collected to show to my friends when I went to England and Europe in 1882 / John Lane Mullins"" -- flyleaf inscription
""C.Bayliss Photo / copyright regstd"" -- stamped at lower left (69)
Attributions / conjectures

The photos are unsigned, but some are attributed to Charles Bayliss based on comparison with identical photos that have been signed at PXA 421-422; no. 69 has a Bayliss stamp
Date note

Though 1881 is the inscription date, the earliest photo, 31c, has been dated at 1868 from the circus advertisement in the image.
Subject
Government House (Sydney, N.S.W.)--Photographs.
St. Andrew's Cathedral (Sydney, N.S.W.)--Photographs.
St. Mary's Cathedral (Sydney, N.S.W.)--Photographs.
Sydney Town Hall (Sydney, N.S.W.)--Photographs.
Photograph albums--New South Wales.
Place
Bellevue Hill (N.S.W.)
Coogee (N.S.W.)
Corso, The (Manly, N.S.W.)
Curl Curl (N.S.W.)
Darling Point (N.S.W.)
Darlinghurst Court House (Darlinghurst, N.S.W.)
Farm Cove (N.S.W.)
Gaiety Theatre (Castlereagh Street)
Gap, The (N.S.W.)
Garden Island (N.S.W.)--Photographs.
Garden Palace (Domain, Sydney, N.S.W.)
General Post Office (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Georges Head (N.S.W.)
Glebe Island Bridge (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Govetts Leap (N.S.W.)
Great Synagogue (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Great Zig Zag Railway (Lithgow, N.S.W.)
Hawkesbury River (N.S.W.)
Hornby Lighthouse (South Head, N.S.W.)
Iron Cove (N.S.W.)
Kanimbla Valley (N.S.W.)
Katoomba (N.S.W.)
Katoomba Falls (N.S.W.)
Lane Cove (N.S.W.)
Long Nose Point (Birchgrove, N.S.W.)
Middle Harbour (N.S.W.)
Nepean River (N.S.W.)
Old Supreme Court (corner Elizabeth & King Streets, Sydney, N.S.W.)
Paterson (N.S.W.)
Potts Point (N.S.W.)
Randwick Racecourse (N.S.W.)
Royal Botanic Gardens (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Royal Exchange (54A-56 Pitt Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
South Head (N.S.W.)
Spectacle Island (Sydney Harbour, N.S.W.)
St. James Church (Flinders Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
Sydney Fish Markets (Pyrmont, N.S.W.)
Sydney Grammar School (College Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)--Photographs.
Sydney Observatory (N.S.W.)
Willoughby Falls (N.S.W.)