Detail View: Rylands Collection:
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Image Number:
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JRL223500432
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Reference Number:
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JA/33/1/2/59
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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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View from 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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1857-11-25
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Page/Sheet:
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59
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Image Sequence Number:
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059
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Image Sequence Total:
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113
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Description:
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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, [... ...]'
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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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Outdoor photography--Australia--New South Wales--1850-1860
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Subject:
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Cityscape photography--Australia--New South Wales--1850-1860
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Subject:
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Buildings
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Subject:
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Mints--Australia
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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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76 mm
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Item Width:
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117 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: /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.
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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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