Three views of the Blue Mountains / Francis Birtles

PXB 1758

fonds

probably 1912

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9663462

3 photographic prints - silver gelatin - 8 x 14 cm

Francis Edwin Birtles (1881-1941) was an Australian adventurer, photographer, cyclist, and filmmaker, who set many long-distance cycling and driving records, including becoming in 1927 the first man to drive a car from England to Australia. Birtles had set a speed record driving from Darwin to Melbourne the previous year. In 1912 he completed the first west-to-east crossing of the continent with Syd Ferguson and a terrier, Rex, in a single-cylinder Brush car.

Three views of the Blue Mountains, probably taken in April 1912,during Francis Birtle's first crossing of Australia by motor car.

Captions from verso of photographs:
1. The "Weeping" Rock, Leura, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
2. Jamison Valley from the top of "The Bridal Veil", Blue Mountains, New South Wales
3. The "Three Sisters" peaks at Katoomba in the Blue Mountains of [New South Wales]

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

Versos of photographs have captions in ink in Birtles' own hand, along with either the wet stamp or printed label of London publishing agent Literary Services (Mondiale), Ltd.