Detail View: Rylands Collection:
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Image Number:
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JRL223500475
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Reference Number:
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JA/33/1/2/102
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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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Grundy's Cottage
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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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[date not identified]
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Page/Sheet:
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102
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Image Sequence Number:
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102
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Image Sequence Total:
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113
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Description:
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View of Mr Grundy's Cottage in Shell Cove suburb in the Shellharbour area, south of Wollongong, New South Wales. An identified female is seen standing on the porch, with an unidentified male sitting in a chair by the wall. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'Mr Grundy's cottage, Shell Cove near Sydney, bush in distance' | 'Fruit-bearing passion flower'. Grundy was a civil engineer from Manchester, not connected with the Mint, but already established in Sydney when Jevons arrived. Jevons had a reference of introduction to him from his father, a Unitarian connection.
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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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Gardens
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Subject:
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Dwellings
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Subject:
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Rocks
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Subject:
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Plants
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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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People Covered:
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Grundy, Francis Henry, 1822-1889
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Item Height:
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126 mm
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Item Width:
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170 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. 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 102 also appears in album JA/33/1/1 as print 155.
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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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