Collection of photographs of White Cliffs area, New South Wales, by F.W. Kitching

PXB 87

fonds

approximately 1900-1902

Graphic Materials, Photographs

844961

106 photographs - black and white - each 17 cm x 21.6 cm

The first 'safety bicycles', distinguished by the pneumatic tire and the diamond frame typical of most modern bicycles, were invented in the late 1800s and manufactured in the United Kingdom from 1885. These bicycles revolutionized personal transportation, and as these images attest, were available quickly in far flung regions of the world including remote mining towns like White Cliffs, Australia's oldest commercial opal field.
Reference: Library correspondence file

The collection includes views of the White Cliffs town, the residences, including 'Tarella' homestead, the surrounding countryside, opal diggings, camel trains, horse drawn coaches and unidentified portraits. There are seven photographs in this collection which feature bicycles, numbered 28, 29, 35, 39, 42, 64 and 96. And other photographs that include bicycles incidentally.

Original nitrate negatives destroyed after copying

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009

Seven are titled. Dated from information supplied by donor.

Keyword subjects:
Tarella