Detail View: Rylands Collection:
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Image Number:
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JRL223500239
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Reference Number:
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JA/33/1/1/51
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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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Henry Augustus Severn
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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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1858-02-14
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Page/Sheet:
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51
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Image Sequence Number:
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051
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Image Sequence Total:
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185
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Description:
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Head-and-shoulders length portrait of Henry Augustus Severn, facing three-quarters to the left, looking directly into the camera to the front. Trees in the background, in the garden of Severn's house in Neutral Bay suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Employed at the Sydney Royal Mint, Henry Severn was a Clerk in the Coining Department. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'H.A.S' | '14th February | 1858'
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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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Severn, Henry Augustus, 1833-1883
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Item Height:
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78 mm
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Item Width:
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54 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 six other prints: /47, /48, /49, /50, /52, and /53. 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.
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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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