Detail View: Rylands Collection:
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Image Number:
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JRL223500318
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Reference Number:
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JA/33/1/1/120
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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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Miniature Cloud
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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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[date not identified]
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Page/Sheet:
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120
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Image Sequence Number:
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130
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Image Sequence Total:
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185
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Description:
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Miniature cloud produced in a laboratory cloud chamber. In the 1850s, Jevons built an apparatus at the Sydney Royal Mint to undertake experiments in cloud formation by producing manifestations of the 'average' cirrus cloud in his apparatus. Photography served to record these experiments. In 1858, he published the first thorough and scientific study of the climate of Australia, entitled 'On Clouds: their various forms and producing causes'. Sydney Magazine of Science and Art, 1, pp. 163-76.
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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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Science--Experiments
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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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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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Item Height:
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55 mm
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Item Width:
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78 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 eight other prints: /121, /122, /123, /124, /125, /126, /127, and /128. 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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