Detail View: Rylands Collection:
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Image Number:
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JRL223500406
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Reference Number:
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JA/33/1/2/33
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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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Francis Bowyer Miller
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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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1858-02-06
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Page/Sheet:
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33
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Image Sequence Number:
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033
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Image Sequence Total:
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113
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Description:
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Full-length portrait of Francis Bowyer Miller, sitting in a rocking chair, facing full profile to the right, looking away from the camera. His hands are folded on his lap. Various plants in pots beside him, and trees in the background. Employed at the Sydney Royal Mint, Miller was as Assayer. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'Mr Miller'.
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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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Portrait photographs--1850-1860
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Subject:
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Mints--Australia
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Subject:
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Employees
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Subject:
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Friends and associates
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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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Sub-Category:
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Portraits
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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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People Covered:
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Miller, Francis Bowyer, 1828-1887
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Item Height:
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85 mm
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Item Width:
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60 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 four other prints: /34, /35, 36, and /37. 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. • Print 33 also appears in album JA/33/1/1 as print 56.
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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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