903478
- TitleAerial views of the route taken by Henry Dangar in 1824, compiled 1976
- Call numberFM2/2040
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
1976 - Type of material
- Reference code903478
- Physical Description25 negatives (5 film strips) - 35 mm
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Henry Dangar (1796-1861), surveyor and pastoralist, was born on 18 November 1796 at St Neot, Cornwall, England. He was the first of six brothers to emigrate as free settlers to New South Wales. Soon after arrival in the Jessie on 2 April 1821 he was appointed assistant in the Survey Department and employed in the counties of Camden and Argyle.
When Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane began preparations early in 1822 for the free settlement of the Hunter River districts, Dangar was transferred to Newcastle to make a detailed and immediate survey of the valley.
Dangar surveyed the road from Newcastle to Wallis Plains (Maitland), measuring reserves and grants and working steadily northwards until he reached the unsettled upper districts of the Hunter River. Accompanied by John Richards and two servants, Williamson and Allen, Dangar discovered in October 1824 the confluence of the Goulburn and Hunter Rivers, explored Dartbrook to its head where Allan Cunningham had crossed it in 1823, named Lamorran Brook (Wybong) and crossed the Liverpool Range to the plains beyond.
His reports caused an immediate rush of applicants for land grants in these desirable new districts and in May 1825 when he revisited the area, he was commissioned to select land for a number of settlers.
Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dangar-henry-1954 (accessed 17 April 2012) - Scope and ContentIncludes handwritten list of content of photographs and hand-drawn map showing Henry Dangar's route in 1824
- Appraisal Note22 copy photoprints of the aerial views were approved by the Curator of Photography for disposal due to deterioration, 23 April 2012
- Access Conditions
This material is held in cold storage and requires 3 working days notice to retrieve. Please submit your request through Ask a Librarian - Copying ConditionsCopyright status:: Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright for the life of photographer plus 70 years
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales - General note
Negatives from 35mm colour slides
Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.3805 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012 - Name
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