• Title
  Bondi Beach pleasure park, at Tamarama?, ca. 1890 / C.G. Coulter
• Creator
  C. G. Coulter
• Call number
  V1A/Bond/1
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1890
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  839512
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - 16 x 24 1/2 in.
  
• Collection history
  Accessioned with title 'Australia's first Luna Park' when acquired by Library. Title changed to 'Bondi Beach pleasure park, at Tamarama?' at unknown date. Correspondence from A. H. Spencer to Mitchell library, 6 January 1941 lists the item: "Australia's first Luna Park. Original watercolour, actual size of drawing 24 1/2" x 16" by C. G. Coulter (signed) depicting what must have been Australia's first effort at a Luna park. This effort was constructed at a beach near Bondi...This picture gives an excellent drawing of the switchback railway with myriads of flags flying, the fish pond, the garden walks, the rest houses..." Reference Library correspondence file and Accession register
• Source
  Purchased from A. H. Spencer Pty. Ltd., New, Secondhand & Rare Booksellers, Melbourne, 1942
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project 2008-2009
• General note
  
  Digital order no:a4302001
  This picture depicts what must have been a first attempt at a Luna Park. This effort was constructed at a beach near Bondi. The picture gives an excellent representation of the switchback railway (Source: Mitchell Library Pictures card catalogue).
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed C.G. Coulter
• Subject
  Amusement parks--New South Wales--Sydney.
  
• Place
  Bondi Beach (N.S.W.)
  Tamarama Beach (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Our Town Sydney
  Planting Dreams: Shaping Australian Gardens
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3259992

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