COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL223500439
Reference Number:
JA/33/1/2/66
Link to Catalogue:
Series Title:
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album of photographs, '1853-8'
Parent Work Title:
Homebush
Creator:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role:
Photographer
Creator Role:
Compiler
Date Created:
1858-02-21
Page/Sheet:
66
Image Sequence Number:
066
Image Sequence Total:
113
Description:
View of a rural landscape in the area of Homebush suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales. A creek makes the entire foreground, with mangrove trees growing on either side and beyond. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'Creek, bordered by mangrove trees in front of Mr Knipe's house near Homebush'.
Subject:
Photograph albums--1850-1860
Subject:
Dwellings
Subject:
Trees
Subject:
Photographic prints--1850-1860
Subject:
Landscape photography--Australia--New South Wales--1850-1860
Subject:
Outdoor photography--Australia--New South Wales--1850-1860
Subject:
Bays--Australia
Subject:
Bodies of water
Subject:
Harbours
Subject:
Ships
Subject:
Coasts
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:
124 mm
Item Width:
166 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. 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 66 also appears in album JA/33/1/1 as print 90.
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
