Detail View: Rylands Collection:
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Image Number:
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JRL223500219
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Reference Number:
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JA/33/1/1/31
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Link to Catalogue:
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Series Title:
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Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album 'commenced Nov. 26th 1857'
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Parent Work Title:
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Francis Henry Grundy
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Creator:
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Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
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Creator Role:
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Photographer
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Creator Role:
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Compiler
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Date Created:
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1857-12-04
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Page/Sheet:
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31
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Image Sequence Number:
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031
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Image Sequence Total:
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185
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Description:
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Half-length portrait of Francis Henry Grundy, sitting on a chair, facing three-quarters to the left, looking away from the camera. Grundy was a Civil Engineer from Manchester, not connected with the Mint, but already established in Sydney when Jevons arrived. Jevons had a reference of introduction to him from his father, a Unitarian connection. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'F.H.G.' | '4/12/57'.
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Subject:
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Photograph albums--1850-1860
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Subject:
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Photographic prints--1850-1860
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Subject:
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Portrait photographs--1850-1860
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Subject:
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Mints--Australia
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Subject:
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Employees
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Subject:
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Friends and associates
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Category of Material:
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Archives
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Sub-Category:
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Analogue photography
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Sub-Category:
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Albumen prints
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Sub-Category:
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Portraits
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Technique Used:
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Albumen process
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Support:
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Paper
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Creation Site:
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Australia: New South Wales
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Time Period Covered:
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19th Century CE
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Places Covered:
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Australia: New South Wales
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People Covered:
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Grundy, Francis Henry, 1822-1889
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Item Height:
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89 mm
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Item Width:
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64 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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Copyright restrictions may apply
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Notes:
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• Monochrome photographic print, mounted on paper with five other prints: /26, /27, /28, /29, and /30. Bound in an album with a total of 172 photographs of places in Sydney, and of friends and colleagues at the Sydney Royal Mint, taken or compiled by William Stanley Jevons during the 1850s. Between 1854-1859 Jevons was employed as Assayer at the Sydney Royal Mint and also carried out detailed social surveys of the city's slums. • Print 31 also appears in album JA/33/1/2 as print 50.
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2022-08-18
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2022-11
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Rylands
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