Tasmanian photographs [ca. 1879-1900]

PXA 506

fonds

ca. 1879-1900

Graphic Materials, Photographs

915897

1 album (24 photographs) - albumen - 31.3 x 28 cm

1. Harbour from Battery Point
2. Government House
3. St. David's Cathedral
4. Entrance to Botanical Gardens
5. Fern Tree Bower
6. Sandy Bay
7. Shot tower, Sandy Bay
8. Brown's River
9. Cliffs near New Norfolk
10. Port Arthur
11. Lower Glasyn Falls
12. Invermay, Launceston
13. Wellington Falls
14. Cataract Gorge / S. Spurling
15. Cameron Street, looking North, Launceston / Beattie, Hobart
16. On the Huon River
17. Lanford
18. Looking down the Derwent
19. Packing Stone on Mt. Wellington
20. Cliffs near the Blow Hole
21. Near Corra Linn, Launceston
22. Upper Glaslyn Falls
23. Russel [i.e. Russell] Falls at Glenora
24. [blank]
25. [Russel [i.e. Russell] Falls at Glenora]

Out of copyright: Created before 1955

Album titled on spine.
Photographs titled in ink on mount.

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011

Undated; dated from period of Beattie's studio in Hobart.
Reference:
The mechanical eye in Australia : photography 1841-1900 / Alan Davies & Peter Stanbury ; with assistance from Con Tanre. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985.

The photograph of Port Arthur (no.10) is similar to the image in `Settlement of Port Arthur (Penal Settlement), Past and Present / Photographed by Anson Bros., Wellington Bridge, Hobart.' PXD 512/no.2 'Port Arthur in 1888'