COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL223500466
Reference Number:
JA/33/1/2/93
Link to Catalogue:
Series Title:
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album of photographs, '1853-8'
Parent Work Title:
Woolloomooloo
Creator:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role:
Photographer
Creator Role:
Compiler
Date Created:
1858-02-26
Page/Sheet:
93
Image Sequence Number:
093
Image Sequence Total:
113
Description:
Panoramic view of Woolloomooloo as seen from Charles Bolton's house in Victoria Steet. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page (and on print's verso): 'Panorama of Woolloomooloo, Sydney' 'Taken from Charles Bolton's house', 'Hyde Park', 'St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral', 'Museum', 'Sydney University', 'New Grammar School', 'Government Domain and Park', 'Hospital', 'Mint', 'St James' Church' 'Houses of Parliament'.
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
Subject:
Rocks
Subject:
Trees
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:
129 mm
Item Width:
329 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 93 also appears in album JA/33/1/1 as print 109.
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
