• Title
  Stereographs taken during a tour of the Southern Goldfields, New South Wales and Victoria, May-June 1860 / attributed to Edward Wolstenholme Ward
• Creator
  Edward Wolstenholme Ward, 1823 - 1890
• Call number
  PXB 598
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  May-June 1860
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  978234
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  10 photographic prints - stereograph, albumen - 8.6 x 17.2 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  E. W .Ward, Deputy Master of the Mint, and Professor John Smith, University of Sydney, undertook a tour of the Southern Goldfields in 1860 for the New South Wales government. The main purpose of the tour was to report on machinery and methods used to extract gold from auriferous quartz. Their report was published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 1 September 1860, p. 6.
  
  Reference:
  The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 September 1860, p. 6. Accessed on Trove. http://trove.nla.gov.au/ (accessed 10 July 2012).
• Scope and Content
  Comprises ten stereographic views of the Southern Goldfields, New South Wales, and surrounding areas, photographed between May and June 1860.
  
  1. Carter's Inn Currowan Creek 12 miles from Nelligen towards Braidwood 22 May 60. Professor John Smith in the foreground.
  2. Approaching pass between Nithsdale and Queanbeyan. 26 May 60. Professor John Smith lying down timing the exposure.
  3. District Surveyors encampment 6 June 60. Professor John Smith on the right.
  4. Old Reef Adelong shown by line of huts 9 June 60.
  5. Quartz Reefers Adelong 9 June 60. Professor Smith in front timing the exposure. [Man in top hat probably William 'Charcoal' Williams].
  6. Adelong River 11 June 60. [E. W. Ward on rocks].
  7. Murrumbidgee 8 miles this side of Mundarloo [i.e. Mundarlo]. 12 June 60. Shows Professor John Smith standing behind wagon timing the exposure.
  8. Tarcutta Creek 13 June 60. Shows Professor John Smith with hand on a tree at right and Edward Wolstenholme Ward sitting to the left of centre.
  9. The Billabong 14 June 60. Professor John Smith standing to the right timing the exposure.
  10. Crossing Place of High Road over Billabong 14 June 60.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955.
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Stereographs titled and dated in ink verso.
  Additional descriptive information in Contents field from envelopes used to house stereographs inscribed by vendor.
  Information in parenthesis supplied by Curator of Photographs, Mitchell Library, June 2012.
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1064171
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Attributed to E. W. Ward by Curator of Photographs, Mitchell Library, June 2012, as Ward's handwriting appears on back of each card and Professor John Smith appears in most images in foreground or mid-distance.
• Name
  Smith, John (Professor)
  Ward, Edward Wolstenholme, Sir, 1823-1890
  
• Subject
  Photography--New South Wales--19th century.
  Photography, Stereoscopic
  Stereoscopic views.
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  goldmining
  creeks
  timber buildings
  horses
  horsedrawn carriages
  camping
  tents
  surveying instruments
  stereographs
  miners
  rivers
  trees
  landscapes (views)
  
• Place
  Adelong (N.S.W.)
  Currowan Creek (N.S.W.)
  Murrumbidgee River (N.S.W. and A.C.T.)
  Tarcutta Creek (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Shot : 400 photographs, 200 photographers, 3 centuries - State Library of New South Wales (October 2023 - October 2024)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE467436

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