Detail View: Rylands Collection:
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Image Number:
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JRL223500397
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Reference Number:
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JA/33/1/2/24
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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 of photographs, '1853-8'
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Parent Work Title:
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Double Bay
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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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1858-01-31
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Page/Sheet:
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24
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Image Sequence Number:
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024
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Image Sequence Total:
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113
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Description:
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View of a headland jutting out to sea as seen from Jevons' house in Double Bay, eastern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. The garden's wooden picket fence is visible in the foreground. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'Taken from front of house: Rocky Point with gum trees framing [?] Double Bay; in the shallow water beneath the rocks is our (Jevons & Miller's) bathing place.'.
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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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Landscape photography--Australia--New South Wales--1850-1860
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Subject:
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Outdoor photography--Australia--New South Wales--1850-1860
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Subject:
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Bays--Australia
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Subject:
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Bodies of water
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Subject:
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Coasts
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Subject:
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Trees
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Subject:
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Rocks
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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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72 mm
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Item Width:
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113 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 one other print: /23. Bound in an album with a total of 113 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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2022-08-24
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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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