Detail View: Rylands Collection:

Image Number: 
JRL223500373
Reference Number: 
JA/33/1/1/172
Link to Catalogue: 
Series Title: 
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album 'commenced Nov. 26th 1857'
Parent Work Title: 
Willoughby Falls
Creator: 
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role: 
Compiler
Creator: 
Hunt, Robert
Creator Role: 
Photographer
Date Created: 
[date not identified]
Page/Sheet: 
172
Image Sequence Number: 
185
Image Sequence Total: 
185
Description: 
Willoughby Falls at Flat Rock Creek on Sydney's North Shore, New South Wales. In a forested landscape filled with trees, bushes, and shrubs, the waterfall, with its narrow torrent is cascading down a sheer rock face. A fence-like structure is visible on the right side. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'Willoughby Waterfall, North Shore'.
Subject: 
Photograph albums--1850-1860
Subject: 
Photographic prints--1850-1860
Subject: 
Landscape photography--Australia--New South Wales--1850-1860
Subject: 
Outdoor photography--Australia--New South Wales--1850-1860
Subject: 
Bays--Australia
Subject: 
Bodies of water
Subject: 
Rocks
Subject: 
Trees
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: 
167 mm
Item Width: 
130 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. 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. • Print 172 also appears in album JA/33/1/2 as print 100.
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