Photographs of cattle stations, sheep stations and stud farms in the Central West, Liverpool Plains and Hunter Valley districts of N.S.W., [ca. 1891] / by Joseph Check

PXE 1721

fonds

[ca. 1891]

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9606323

11 photographic prints - albumen - 24.5 x 29 cm

Joseph Check was a travelling photographer and painter. He practised all forms of photography, and used limelight shows and cinematography to attract business. He remained a travelling photographer well into the twentieth century and is known to have visited Gulgong as late as 1928.
Reference: Library correspondence file

Acquired from Stephen Lunsford, a Canadian bookseller based in Vancouver, in 2017

11 albumen photographic prints showing homesteads, sheds and workers, as well as the activities of a horse stud and large cattle and sheep stations.

1. Rock of Gibraltar, Martindale Station
2. Turnville Stud Farm
3. Gummin Gummin Station dam
4. Cattle on Camp Worombumool Mt, Gummin Station
5. Garrawilla Station wool team
6. Goolhi, 1891
7. Goolhi, 1891
8. Pure bred short horns, Lue Station
9. Blood mares and foals, Lue Station
10. Havilah Station
11. Bando Station

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Titles derived from inscriptions on lower right corner of prints.

All photographic prints are inscribed "J. Check"

Date based on "1891" inscriptions on photographs of Goolhi