Photographs of New South Wales, ca.1879-1892 / [from the collection of D. S. Mitchell]; Sydney past and present, vol. 1, ca.1908? / collected by Norman Selfe ; and Original etchings on the Palestine Front, 1914-1920? / by Warrant Officer David Barker A.I.F.

PXD 1215

fonds

ca.1880-1918

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Prints

910944

2 albums (approx. 162 photographic prints)
6 prints - etchings, lined and window mounted, in folio - approx. 21 x 14 cm. (plate marks), 25 x 20 cm. (sheets); folio 48 x 38 cm.

PXD 1215/Box 1

Photographs of New South Wales
90 photographic prints, chiefly views of NSW produced by the Government Printing Office, ca.1879-1892, including the Garden Palace, the Domain, Valley of the Grose, Picton Viaduct, Blue Mountains. 45 prints are bound into volume and 45 are loose. D. S. Mitchell signature on 2nd last loose board at back of volume. Label inside back cover F981/P vol.7. Cover dimensions 32 x 44 cm.

PXD 1215/Box 2

Sydney past and present / collected by Norman Selfe, vol. 1 [ca.1908?]
Title gilt-stamped on cover and spine. 72 photographic reproductions of early views of Sydney by or after Lesueur, Lycett, John Rae, F. C. Terry and others, and photographic reproductions of portrait engravings of Cook, Phillip, Hunter, Bligh and others. Volume partly disbound and plates removed. Annotated in pencil where sources of plates are identified, some noted as appearing in F981N (possibly Photographs of New South Wales, ca. 1880, [Sydney : Charles Potter, Govt. printer, 1892]?, or another volume formerly at this location). Label inside back cover X981.1/4. Cover dimensions 39 x 62 cm.

PXD 1215/Box 3

Set of 6 etchings in a folio with gilt-stamped cover title: "Original etchings on the Palestine front by Warrant Officer David Barker A.I.F.". Each etching is pasted onto card and window mounted.

[Title plate, unsigned, no edition. 13.7 x 10.3 (plate) on sheet 22 x 14 cm. Titles given on title plate:]
A set of five etchings on the Palestine Front / by Warrant Officer David Barker, A.I.F.
1. A street in Bethlehem
2. A mosque at Aleppo
3. A church no [sic] the Lebanon Hills
4. The New Gate in Jerusalem
5. A street in Jerusalem

[Titles given on title plate differ slightly from pencil title on each plate as given below. Each has edition 2/50 in pencil and is signed 'David Barker. Warrant Officer A.I.F.' at lower right]
Street in Bethlehem. 20 x 14.2 cm. (plate) on sheet 24.5 x 20 cm.
Monastery Aleppo. 14 x 28 cm. (plate) on sheet 17.5 x 31.5 cm.
On the hills of Lebanon. 12 x 21 cm. (plate) on sheet 16 x 25 cm.
The New Gate - Jerusalem. 18 x 14 cm. (plate) on sheet 24.5 x 15.5 cm.
A street in Jerusalem. 17 x 14.5 cm. (plate) on sheet 25 x 21.5 cm.

Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Out of copyright: Applies to photographic prints

In 1908 Norman Selfe published an address entitled: Sydney, past, present and possible : an address to the Australian Historical Society on November 27th, 1906 / by Norman Selfe.
Sydney : D.S. Ford, 1908.


Keyword subject:
Sydney (N.S.W.)