COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL223500290
Reference Number:
JA/33/1/1/95
Link to Catalogue:
Series Title:
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album 'commenced Nov. 26th 1857'
Parent Work Title:
View from Sydney Royal Mint
Creator:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role:
Photographer
Creator Role:
Compiler
Date Created:
1858-02-25
Page/Sheet:
95 [verso]
Image Sequence Number:
102
Image Sequence Total:
185
Description:
Handwritten caption(s) in ink on verso, with description and date: 'Domain; Potts Point, Harbour, North Shore etc in distance, Lappers quarters, new wing of the hospital etc in foreground. From the roof of the S.R. Mint.' | '25/2/58'.
Subject:
Photograph albums--1850-1860
Subject:
Photographic prints--1850-1860
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:
170 mm
Item Width:
210 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
