Detail View: Rylands Collection:
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Image Number:
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JRL223500413
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Reference Number:
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JA/33/1/2/40
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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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Rolling Mills, Sydney Royal Mint
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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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1857-12-10
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Page/Sheet:
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40
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Image Sequence Number:
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040
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Image Sequence Total:
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113
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Description:
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Rolling mills, in the Coining Department, Sydney Royal Mint. In the foreground is the drag bench. Standing on the left, partially visible, is William Jevons, and in the back centre, also visible, is Robert Hunt operating the machinery. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'Coining Department of the S.R.M. showing the rolling mills, also in foreground the drag bench, W.S.J. and R.H. partially appear'.
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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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Indoor photography--Australia--New South Wales--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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Subject:
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Equipment
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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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People Covered:
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Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
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People Covered:
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Hunt, Robert, 1830-1892
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Item Height:
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72 mm
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Item Width:
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95 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: /39. 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 40 also appears in album JA/33/1/1 as print 44.
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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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