Detail View: Rylands Collection:
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Image Number:
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JRL223500454
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Reference Number:
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JA/33/1/2/81
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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 Neutral Bay
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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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1858-02-14
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Page/Sheet:
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81
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Image Sequence Number:
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081
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Image Sequence Total:
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113
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Description:
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Panoramic view of Sydney Harbour from Severn's house in the heights of Neutral Bay suburb, Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, looking towards Fort Denison, with Elizabeth Bay and Darling Point in the distance. Employed at the Sydney Royal Mint, Henry Severn was a Clerk in the Coining Department. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: ''Neutral bay, North Shore - Harbour, Fort Denison, Pinchgut, Garden Island - from the verandah of Severn's House.'
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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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Landscape photography--Australia--New South Wales--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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Bays--Australia
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Subject:
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Bodies of water
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Subject:
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Harbours
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Subject:
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Coasts
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Subject:
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Trees
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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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82 mm
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Item Width:
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152 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: /82. 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 81 also appears in album JA/33/1/1 as print 50.
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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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