• Title
  Professor John Smith, ca. 1870-1879 / photographer J. T. Gorus
• Creator
  John Gorus, approximately 1830-1916
• Call number
  P1/1598
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1870-1879
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  897810
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photographic print - cabinet - 16.2 x 10.5 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  In 1852, John Smith was appointed Foundation Professor of Chemistry and Experimental Physics at the University of Sydney, the first Professor of Chemistry in Australia. Smith was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in 1856 and became a Fellow of Senate in 1861. The University Archives hold a splendid collection of historic photographs of the University and Sydney surrounds taken between 1855 and 1880 by Smith. He was an exceptionally talented amateur photographer, one of the first in this country, and his photographs have historical significance in the development of the visual arts in Australia.
  
  Reference:
  University of Sydney website. http://sydney.edu.au/ (accessed June 21, 2010)
  
  For a biography of Professor J. Smith, see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/ (accessed June 21, 2010)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Smith, Professor John (BM), June 2010
  Digital order no:a4362098
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Professor John Smith -- in red ink and pencil on the reverse
  
  Photographer's stamps
• Name
  Smith, John, 1821-1885
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Portrait photography.
  
• Topic
  chemists (scientists)
  academics
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3299805

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