COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL223500432
Reference Number:
JA/33/1/2/59
Link to Catalogue:
Series Title:
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album of photographs, '1853-8'
Parent Work Title:
View from Sydney Royal Mint
Creator:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role:
Photographer
Creator Role:
Compiler
Date Created:
1857-11-25
Page/Sheet:
59
Image Sequence Number:
059
Image Sequence Total:
113
Description:
View from Sydney Royal Mint at Macquarie Street, looking over Hyde Park area towards Elizabeth Street to the west, with St. James Church, King Street visible on the right. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'Hyde Park Corner, from the verandah of the Royal Mint, Sydney, N.S.W. showing also St James' church and of Hyde Park houses in Elizabeth Street, some of Central Police Courts in George Street & [...] & Police Station, [... ...]'
Subject:
Photograph albums--1850-1860
Subject:
Photographic prints--1850-1860
Subject:
Outdoor photography--Australia--New South Wales--1850-1860
Subject:
Cityscape photography--Australia--New South Wales--1850-1860
Subject:
Buildings
Subject:
Mints--Australia
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:
76 mm
Item Width:
117 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 with one other print: /58. 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 59 also appears in album JA/33/1/1 as print 37.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2022-08-24
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
