New Lambton Colliery, Newcastle, New South Wales, photograph by Beaufoy Merlin

SPF/3588

fonds

approximately 1870

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9651802

1 photograph - albumen, carte de visite - 6.2 x 10.4 cm

The New Lambton Colliery, Newcastle, was established by brothers James and Andrew Brown, who began to work the coal on the New Lambton Estate in 1967.

Beaufoy Merlin began his photographic career in Victoria in 1866, later forming the American and Australasian Photographic Company with Charles Bayliss.

References:
'Holtermann Collection'. State Library of New South Wales. Accessed 21 September 2020. https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/research-and-collections/significant-collections/holtermann-collection
"Newcastle Collieries.—V." Australian Town and Country Journal, 7 December 1889, page 24. Accessed 21 September 2020. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/5435991

Carte de visite photograph of a coal mine site showing a group of men standing in front of plant equipment, a coal loader, and mine carts. ‘New Lambton Colliery’ is displayed on a building sign in the background. It is possible that the two men on the far left wearing waistcoats are mine owners and brothers Alexander and James Brown.

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

Title devised by cataloguer. Stamp on verso ‘American & Australasian Photographic Company, Sydney Office, 11 Barrack Street and 324 George St.’

‘Beaufoy Merlin’ inscribed in ink on verso.

Date based on advertisements listing the American & Australasian Photographic Company premises at 11 Barrack Street, Sydney.