COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL223500242
Reference Number:
JA/33/1/1/54
Link to Catalogue:
Series Title:
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album 'commenced Nov. 26th 1857'
Parent Work Title:
Sydney Royal Mint: Coining Department
Creator:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role:
Photographer
Creator Role:
Compiler
Date Created:
1858-03-08
Page/Sheet:
54 [recto]
Image Sequence Number:
054
Image Sequence Total:
185
Description:
Mint machinery in the Coining Department of the Sydney Royal Mint, including rolling mills, tapering machine, drag bench, cutting-out presses. Handwritten caption(s) in ink on verso: 'Coining department of the S.R. Mint (Sydney Royal Mint) showing the Rolling mills, Tapering Machine, Drag bench, Cutting-Out Presses etc. 2/3/58'.
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:
132 mm
Item Width:
194 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. 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
