New South Wales Views, [predominantly of Jenolan Caves and the Blue Mountains, ca. 1881-ca.1887] / photographs by Caney & Co.

PXE 1736

fonds

[ca. 1881-ca.1887]

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9611357

60 photographs (1 album) - albumen prints

Caney & Co. Photographic Studio was set up by Ebenezer Caney in Lithgow, New South Wales, soon after he moved from New Zealand to Australia. Operating until approximately 1887, the studio produced many photographic views of the surrounding area, including views of the Jenolan Caves and the Blue Mountains, for which they won prizes at the International Calcutta Exhibition, 1883-1884.

Reference: Library correspondence file

By descent from the donor's grandmother

Photographic album titled 'New South Wales Views' containing 60 photographic prints, predominantly of Jenolan Caves and the Blue Mountains.

1. Wentworth Falls
2. Katoomba Rocks, looking up from the road to the coal mine
3. Govett's Leap
4. The Grose Valley (Govett's Leap)
5. Fairy Bower (Mount Victoria)
6. First sight of Fairy Bower, Mount Victoria
7. Fairy Dell (Mount Victoria)
8. Cascade at Katoomba
9. Three trains upon the Great Zigzag
10. Complete view from the top of the Great Zigzag
11. Train leaving Zigzag platform
12. The Zigzag from the east
13. Bird's-eye view of Lithgow
14. Surveyor's Waterfall, near the Zigzag
15. The top of Hassan's Walls
16. Hassan's Walls and country below
17. Gap at Hassan's Walls
18. Crown Rock, Tarana
19. Monkey Stone, Tarana
20. Evan's Ridge, Tarana
21. Bushranger at Dog Rocks, Oberon Road, 1881
22. The Guide's Accommodation House, Fish River Caves
23. Entrance to the Grand Arch, Fish River Caves
24. West entrance to Grand Arch
25. McKew's Hole, near the cave
26. Top Pinnacle over the Grand Arch
27. Looking east out of Grand Arch
28. Carlotta Arch, 60ft high and 40ft wide
29. Cascade in Cave River
30. Grand Waterfall in Cave River
31. Looking south out of Devil's Coach House, about 450ft high and 250ft wide
32. Looking into Devil's Coach House, from entrance of Nettle Cave with 30ft ladder leading into Arch Cave
33. Diamond Walls, about 35ft high (Imperial)
34. Arch Cave, about 20ft wide and 15ft high
35. [Lucas Cave?]
36. Lucas Cave
37. Margareta Cave, about 20ft wide and 15ft high
38. Helena Cave, 40ft wide, 40ft long, and about 80ft high
39. Josephine's Grotto, about 3ft high, on the left of the Alabaster Column, Selena Cave
40. Alabaster Column, Selena Cave
41. Garden Palace, about 10in. high (Imperial)
42. Nelly's Grotto, Imperial Cave
43. Lot's Wife, about 6ft high (Imperial)
44. Grand Stalactites (Imperial)
45. Lady's Finger Cave (Imperial)
46. Lolly Cave (Imperial)
47. Shawls looking in and Johnny Wilson looking out
48. Shawls looking out (Imperial)
49. Show Room (Imperial)
50. Crystal Salt Pans, 4ft high and 12ft wide (Imperial)
51. Stalagmite Cave (near Imperial)
52. Crystal Palace (Imperial)
53. Crystal Rock (Imperial)
54. [The Vestry, Imperial]
55. Back of Garden Palace (Imperial)
56. Gem of the west (Imperial)
57. Lucinda Column
58. Lucinda Cave, discovered February 1881
59. Katie Webb's Bower looking in
60. Katie Webb's Bower looking out, discovered Feb. 1881

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

Titles printed and affixed to album page below image

Embossed on cover: "New South Wales Views"
Stamps on album pages below images: "Copies can be had from Caney & Co. photographers, Lithgow"
Stamp on inside front cover: "C. Jerrems Bookbinder, Sydney"

Dates based on operating dates of Caney & Co, and date of 1881 on labels for three photographs