Views in Victoria [photographs of Geelong], ca. 1864 / Charles Nettleton

PXD 570

fonds

ca. 1864

Graphic Materials, Photographs

845727

Copy print : Located in SPF/Geelong, Vic, c1864
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room

1 volume (8 albumen photographic prints) - each is laid on a separate mount 45.3 x 59 cm and is surrounded by ruled ink frame lines

Views include:
1. Moorabool Street, from near Christ Church looking towards the bay, Geelong, Victoria
2. The wharves and east bathing houses, Geelong, Victoria
3. The bridge over the river Barwon, Geelong, Victoria
4. Malop Street looking west with Garden Market Square, Geelong, Victoria
5. Corio Villa, the residence of Alfred Douglass, Geelong, Victoria
6. The intersection of Ryrie and Gheringhap Streets showing the Fire Station, Post Office, Town Hall and Electric Telegraph Office, Geelong, Victoria
7. The Town Clock and Market House, Geelong Victoria
8. A view of Geelong from Eastern Beach, Geelong, Victoria

Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -

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

No. 5: 'Prefabricated cast iron house from Glasgow' is inscribed in a different hand following title; no. 7: 'the Town Clock and Market House' reproduced in Billot, C.P., op.cit., pp. 59 and 60. and No. 8: 'Taken from our back gate A.D.' is inscribed on lower left edge of mount.

'C. Nettleton Photo' (left), 'Melbourne' (right) inscribed in ink beneath each photograph.

Title 'Views in Victoria' is gold stamped on cover; a separate title is inscribed in pencil beneath the bottom frame line of each photograph.

The number '89302' is inscribed beneath the first photograph.

Approximately dated by comparison with De Balk, E., 'Geelong album', 1866 (PXA 528); Robertson, E. Graeme, 'Victorian heritage', Melbourne, Georgian House, 1960; and Billot, C.P., 'The life of our years: a pictorial history of Geelong', Melbourne, Lothian, 1969.