Detail View: Rylands Collection:

Image Number: 
JRL223500227
Reference Number: 
JA/33/1/1/39
Link to Catalogue: 
Series Title: 
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album 'commenced Nov. 26th 1857'
Parent Work Title: 
Royal Sapper and Miner, M.D.
Creator: 
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role: 
Photographer
Creator Role: 
Compiler
Date Created: 
1857-11-24
Page/Sheet: 
39
Image Sequence Number: 
039
Image Sequence Total: 
185
Description: 
Half-length portrait of an unidentified male, soldier of the Royal Sappers and Miners, standing, facing three-quarters to the right, looking away from the camera. He is in military uniform, carrying a rifle, suspended from his shoulder. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'M.D.' | 'Royal Sapper and Miner' | '24/11/57'.
Subject: 
Mints
Category of Material: 
Archives
Sub-Category: 
Analogue photography
Sub-Category: 
Albumen prints
Technique Used: 
Albumen process
Support: 
Paper
Creation Site: 
Australia: New South Wales
Time Period Covered: 
19th Century CE
Places Covered: 
Australia: New South Wales
Item Height: 
89 mm
Item Width: 
59 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
Copyright restrictions may apply
Notes: 
• Monochrome photographic print, mounted on paper with four other prints: /38, /40, /41, and /42. 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.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2022-08-18
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2022-11
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Rylands