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Auction House:Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)Number of lots recorded:206
Sale Title:The Denis Joachim Collection, Day 2, PhotographsLots with images:205
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:59
Date:20-Jun-2016
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Blackwood's Panorama of Sydney & Harbour From Government House 1858, 12 albumen photoprints (comprising 1 panorama in 11 sections - 1 photoprint) in a leather and gold embossed album. Images 19 x 29 cm., Panorama length is 324.5 cm. Provenance: Sotheby's, Fine Australian Books, 28 August 1989, Lot 8. Notes: Olaf William Blackwood, also known as William Blackwood, was a portrait painter of Swedish and Scottish descent. It was, however as a professional photographer of panoramic Sydney views that he achieved…
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Album By W.Blackwood of Australian Scenery, 12 albumen photoprints, images approx. 21.5 x 29.5 laid down in album with manuscript titles in the mount., One of Blackwood's albums of Sydney views produced in 1858 and 1859, with subjects include, The Great Southern Railway Station, Farm Cove & Government Garden, Bridge on Road to Lighthouse, Rushcutters Bay, Campbells Wharf, Bridge Street & Exchange, Wynyard Square, Elizabeth Bay, Pyrmont Bridge, Macquarie St and Government House, Described in the Sydney…
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Verey Brothers Album of 12 photographic prints of Castlemaine, Victoria presented to Sir Henry Brougham Loch (1827-1900), Governor of Victoria, c.1889. Bound in leather, gold lettering on front cover. In original leather covered, silk lined box.
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South Australia. Views in Adelaide, Suburbs and Country Districts., Blue Leather photograph album embossed with gilt titles and decorations., Printer: E Spiller, Govt Printer, Adelaide. Provenance: Christie's London, Lord Loch Library, 30 October 1986, The original 52 albumen photographs on printed facing pages (mainly 20 x 26 cm) have been supplemented by 52 examples of the work of Samuel Sweet and other photographers on the opposing pages (these images mainly 20 x 24 and 16 x 21 cm) neatly annotated by…
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A Collection of Photographs of Buildings and Views in New South Wales Presented to the Delegate Representing the Australian Colonies, and New Zealand, At the Intercolonial Conference Held in Sydney, January-February, 1873. Thomas Richards, Government Printer, A collection of 64 albumen photographs (26.5 x 22 cm or smaller) plus photographic frontice piece titled 'Representatives of the Australasian Colonies Conference held in Sydney 1873' (20.5 x 16.5 cm) and photographic reproductions of a lithograph of…
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Centennial International Exhibition, 1888 - Presentation Album to Sir Henry Loch, 67 Photos, embossed on front cover: Presented to His Excellency Sir H. B. Loch, G. C. M. G., K. C. B. Governor of Victoria by the Executive Commissioners for the Centennial International Exhibition Melbourne 1888, various sizes, the largest 24 x 29.5 cm
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Large leather bound album containing a collection of 27 photographs (various sizes) including a series of images from the Dandenongs (by Nicholas Caire A series depicting Baron Henry Brougham Loch [1827 - 1900] and family at a retreat in the Dandenongs (by Peirce), scenes at a Constitutional Convention, crowd scenes at the unveiling of the statue Sir Redmond Barry (by Peirce) and several others. Provenance: Christie's, Lord Loch Library, 30/10/1986, 1st Baron Loch [1827 - 1900] Lieutenant Governor of the…
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The Australia Album: Ornate black-leather with gold decoration Presentation Album without colour lithographed pages providing spaces for inserting photographs (none present), circa 1885. The title page features portraits of Lord and Lady Henry Loch, Governor of Victoria 1884 - 1889 and a view of Melbourne.
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Large leather bound album containing a collection of 16 photographs (various sizes) including a portrait of Baron Henry Brougham Loch [1827 - 1900] and family by Johnstone O'Shannessey Coy Ltd (Melbourne) followed by a photograph of His Excellency Henry B. Loch, Lady Loch, and Party at the Midas Mine Ballarat (by Richards & Co.), The Carriage Paddock and Lawn Melbourne Cup Day Nov. 1. 1887 (by Charles Nettleton), The Saddling Paddock, Flemington, Oct. 29. 1887 (Nettleton), Lord Loch visiting Sir Anthony…
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The Australia Album, Presentation Album with 78 photographs, Circa 1880, 14 x 15 cm average. Provenance: The Lord and Lady Loch Collection
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A red leather-bound album of Australian and Pacific albumen prints containg 65 images of Melbourne, rural Victoria, Tasmania and Fiji, 13 x 15 cm each average. Provenance: The Lord Loch Collection, circa 1889.
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Captain Samuel White Sweet (1825-1886), Album of South Australia Circa 1870s - 1880s, A leather bound album containing 56 albumen prints of views of South Australia by Captain Samuel White Sweet [1825 - 1886]. Subjects include, King William Street, Adelaide Town Hall, Long's Boat Sheds, Theatre Royal, Adelaide Botanical Gardens, Railway Station, Capt. Sweet's Imperial Portrait Rooms, Racecourse & stand bushland scenes amongst others. Also including Angas River at Strathalbyn, circa 1872 with view of the…
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John Noone (working 1858-1888), A folio of 15 albumen prints including views of Melbourne from the tower of 'Rostella', Fitzroy Gardens, the Government Printing Works, Williams Street and Little Lonsdale Street, The Observatory, The Post Office, Treasury Building, Saint Patricks Cathedral, Queen Street and Lonsdale Street and Spring Street and Little Collins Street East, circa 1869, 27 x 35 cm average
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William Little (1814-1850), Jubilee Sketch of Ballarat, 1887, 18 photographs plus text, embossed front cover 'Jubilee Sketch of Ballarat, 1887, Presented to Lady Loch, by his Worship the Mayor of the City of Ballarat, issued under the Auspices of the City Council. Ballarat's Birth, 1837 and Ballarat's Jubilee, 1887 By William Little, A City Councillor, inscribed inside front cover 'Special Presentation Ed with Original photographs (18) F. 11662, Printed by James Curtis, Printer, Armstrong Street, 1887.
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Ornate leather case with gold-embossed titles: Views of Beechworth Scenery, Presented to Lady Loch by Mrs. John Fletcher, Wife of the President of the Shire of Beechworth. December 30th 1885., Comprising 17 albumen photographs mounted on thick card with printed 'Jas. E. Bray, Photo' and 'Beechworth' below each image, the titles in neat mss centred below each. Mainly 15.5 x 21 cm, Henry Brougham Loch was Governor of Victoria from 1884 to 1889.
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An impressive album of photographs assembled for H.J.Younger in 1890. Titled 'Vol.1. Melbourne & the Surrounding Country' with 87 images of Melbourne, Fernshaw, Geelong, Bendigo, Ballarat, Sandhurst, Aborigines and several of Malta. 87 photographs, a number identified as being by Lindt. Notes: John William Lindt was born in Germany in 1845 and left home at age 17 to join a Dutch sailing ship. By 1863 Lindt had arrived in Brisbane and soon after found work in a photographic studio in Grafton. He relocated…
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J. W. Lindt (1845-1926) & H.King (1855-1923) - An album of albumen photographs, An album containing 49 Lindt albumen photographs of Melbourne street scenes and buildings including several infrequently seen images (Little Collins St, William St, The Junction of St Kilda), 18 Lindt photographs of Ballarat, Warburton && Yarradoon, plus 15 King photographs of Sydney Harbour and street scenes. [82 images]. Mainly 15 x 15 cm or 19 x 15 cm.
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J.W.Lindt (1845-1926), Victorian Scenes, An album of mostly Lindt album prints of street scenes in Geelong, Fernham (near Emerald), Graceburn (Healesville), Marysville, Ballarat & Melbourne. Also a rather gruesome Cantonese execution scene by another photographer. Mainly 15 x 19 cm approx. (26 photographs).
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J.W. Lindt (1845 - 1926), Kew Lunatic Asylum, albumen paper print, inscribed in pencil verso, approximately 15 x 19 cm
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J.W.Lindt (1845-1926), A Collection of 18 Photographs Depicting Rural Scenes in Victoria, circa 1880s, Albumen photographs, 15 x 20 cm, mounted on gilt edged black cards printed with 'J. W. Lindt, Melbourne' below each image, Also printed verso 'J. W. Lindt, Photographer, 7 Collins Street East, Melbourne' and showing details of his Exhibition awards. 17.5 x 25.5 cm (card size)
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Queen Emma of Honolulu, photograph, with inscription on backing board, 22.5 x 15 cm. Provenance: Christie's, Los Angeles, 21 February 2001, Lot 45
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Honolulu: 15 loose photographs circa 1860s-70s. Provenance: Christie's, 21 February 01 Sale 9700 Lot 45 & and Christie's NC846/70.
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Nicholas John Caire (1837-1918), Views of New South Wales, 45 photographs, from a set of 50, each 13.5 x 18.5 cm. Notes: Born in Guernsey, Channel Island in 1837, Nicholas John Caire was encouraged from a young age to pursue his passion for photography. After moving to Adelaide with his parents in 1860, Caire was mentored by American-born Townsend Duryea, a prominent photographer of the early South Australian colonies. In 1867 Caire opened his first studio in Adelaide before moving to Melbourne and…
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Nicholas John Caire (1837-1918), Anglo-Australasian Photo. Co., Views of Victoria, General Series, Complete folio of 60 photographs with printed text verso, 13.5 x 15 cm each approx
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Nicholas John Caire (1837-1918), Three photographs titled Fernshaw Scenery, Victorian Scenery and Melbourne Scenery, 14.5 x 19.5 cm
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Unknown Photographer, An album of 29 albumen paper prints depicting views of Victoria & South Australia including Ferntree Gully, Flinders Street, The Great Flood, Government House and Botanic Gardens, Collins Street, Swanston Street, The General Post Office, Elizabeth Street, Town Hall, Houses of Parliament, Exhibition Buildings, Post Office, The Fountain, Bendigo, The Gold Diggings, Bendigo, King Street Adelaide, Botanical Gardens, Adelaide, Marysville, Fernshaw, Native Aborigines, Gippsland and…
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Fred Kruger (1831-1888), Fine Art Photographs of Victoria, Australia - Fred Kruger, Gold Medallist, A fine leather bound album with gold embossed titles to front cover containing a collection of 67 albumen photographic prints, the subjects include Ballarat scenes, Black Hill Gold Mine, The Orphan Asylum, Band & Albion Gold Mine, Kruger achieved international recognition for his landscape photography, including medals from both the 1872 Vienna Exhibition and the 876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. He…
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Fred Kruger (1831-1888), Victoria, An album containing 60 albumen photographs with subjects including: Yarra Street Wharf Corio Bay, Geelong, Victorian Aboriginals and War Implements, Victorian Aboriginals and Canoe, New Lighthouse and Quarters, Dromana, Wreck of the 'George Roper', and Rocks Point Lonsdale, Group of Aboriginals in Hop Gardens, Coranderrk, View of Ballarat East, Moorabool Street North, Geelong, Ryrie Street, Looking East, Bridge Street Looking East, Ballarat, Queen Mary and King Billy, and…
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Charles Henry Kerry (1857-1928), A folio of 54 photographs depicting landscapes of the Snowy Mountains environs., 15 cm x 25 cm each. Notes: Early in his career, Kerry specialised in portraits but branched into photographing Sydney scenery and society and eventually turned his small studio into Australia's largest photographic establishment. Kerry sold albums of high-quality of the countryside. In 1885 he was asked to prepare an exhibit of Aboriginal portraits and corroboree pictures for the 1886 Colonial…
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Charles Henry Kerry (1857-1928), Photographs of Sydney, A leather bound, gold embossed album containing 18 photographs by Charles Kerry with subjects including Farm Cove from Govt. House, Circular Quay Looking South, North Shore Ferry Wharf, Circular Quay, Wool Stores, Circular Quay, Horse Ferry, Macquarie Point, Sutherland Dock, Cockatoo Island mostly 15.5 x 20 cm.
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Charles Henry Kerry (1857-1928), Leather-bound album of photographs with ornate presentation inscription 'To the Honorable E.W.O'Sullivan, Minister for Works, New South Wales. A reminiscence of a very pleasant trip to Kosciusko - The Roof of Australia. Feb. 1902'. 23 photos, mainly 15 x 20 cm
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Charles Henry Kerry (1857-1928), Album titled 'Noumea, New Hebrides, Borneo' containing 52 photographic prints mainly, though not exclusively, from these areas, pre 1917. Other locations noted include New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Manilla, etc. Mainly 15 x 25 cm
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Charles Henry Kerry (1857-1928), Album of Original Photographs By Charles Kerry, 47 original albumen paper prints, unmounted, with blind stamp of Kerry & Co., 308 George Street, Sydney in lower left hand corner. Each print measures 20 x 15 cm and is held in a contemporary cloth bound album. Circa 1890. Subjects include: Aboriginal portraits, Australian native animal and bird dioramas, A Station on the Murrumbidgee: Open boat sailing on Sydney Harbour, Circular Quay, Brickfield Hill. Of special note is a…
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Charles Henry Kerry (1857-1928), Charles Kerry Photographs of Norfolk Island and Fiji, 52 albumen prints circa 1890 affixed in later album, subjects include The Old Jail Kingston(e), Cricket Ground, Norfolk Island, Bloody Bridge, Norfolk Island, Cutting in a Whale, Kingston, Norfolk Island, Main Street, Mission Station, Norfolk Island, Meeting Fijian Chiefs, Fiji Native Armed Constabulary, View at Taviuni, Street in Suva, Cricket Ground Vacadace Ovalau, A Soloman Islander's House, mainly 15 x 20 cm or…
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Charles Henry Kerry (1857-1928), Charles Kerry Photographs of Tonga, Treasury Island, Fiji, Samoa, New Caledonia & Tokelau, 40 albumen prints circa 1890 affixed in later album, subjects include Nukulofa Tonga, Girl's School, Mua, Tonga, Mafinga, Tonga Tabu, The Harbour, Tonga, Coral Archway, Mua, Tonga, View on Treasury Island, Preparing Copra, War Canoe, Lieutenant Gaunt's Squad, Samoa, War Canoes, Florida (Solomon Islands), Hospital, Noumea, Tokalau Warrior, Mainly 15 x 19.5 cm
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Charles Henry Kerry (1857-1928), Charles Kerry Photographs of Samoa, Tonga, 52 albumen prints circa 1900 affixed in later album, subjects include Working a 4 in. Naval Gun, Malietoe Natives Drilling, Making Tappa Cloth, Lieutenant Gaunt's Squad, Street View During Native War, Road to R. L. Stevenson's House, Natives Building a House, Mataafa's Camp, Villiage Scene Savii, Stealing a House During War, Wreck of German Man of War, Apia, Chief Addressing Native Meeting, View of Apia Harbour, Nukulofa Harbour,…
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Views of Warrnambool, A most important album of 29 photographs that are clear and show a good cross-section of Warrnambool in the early 1890s. Subjects include: A Panoramic View of the Town from Liebig Street Hill, Kepler Street, Proudfoots on the Hopkins, Sandstone Quarries, Sheldrick's Brewery, Stephens Bros. Coach Builders etc. 15 x 20 cm except panorama which is 17 x 107 cm.
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John Hunter Kerr (1821-1874), photograph album of 12 views of Melbourne taken from the Club, 1861, bound in leather with slip-case, The photographer of these fine and unique early photographs (John Hunter Kerr) of Melbourne, was the author of 'Glimpses of Life in Victoria' published in 1872. The Views are all dated 1861 except the 1st photograph which is dated 1839
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Charles Bayliss (1850-1897), concertina 5-panel panorama' of Sydney and 10 other photos of Sydney, The panoramic image was taken from the dome of the Sydney International Exhibition Building which opened in 1879 and burned down in 1882. The Exhibition Building stood in the grounds of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney., each 15 x 25 cm average
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Charles Bayliss (1850-1897), Albumen print photographic panorama of Sydney Harbour from the North Shore, in four panels, circa 1880, inscribed in the plate lower right of second panel: Sydney From North Shore C.Bayliss., Taken from the Holtermann Tower in the grounds of Shore School, North Sydney, 19 x 109 cm
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Charles Bayliss (1850-1897) photographer: Albumen prints of Melbourne (with several of maritime and shipping interest), Sydney, Geelong and a few foreign. 85 photographs, various sizes, smallest 11 x 16 cm to largest 22 x 27 cm.
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13 albumen prints of Australia, laid down on board. Noted Charles Bayliss' image of George Street from King Street, Sydney, various views of Warrnambool and Port Fairy dated 1898, Melbourne scenes by W.H.Cooper, others by Beattie, etc.
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Scrapbook: containing a collection of albumen prints of Sydney, Tasmania and New Zealand, 60 imagess including 4 Maori subjects, photographers include Paine, Bayliss and Josiah Martin. Mainly 20 x 15 cm some larger, largest being 28.5 x 25 cm.
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Lawrence Frost's Compendium of his Views of Australia. The City Views, c.1879. 25 photographic prints mounted in a gold embossed album with the cover title 'Royal Photographic Album of Australia'. Each photograph is accompanied by a page of descriptive text., each photograph 14.5 x 15 cm average
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John Watt Beattie (1859-1930), Album with gilt title 'Photographs of Tasmania by J.W. Beattie', contains 23 albumen prints affixed to thick pages, each with hand-written titles in the lower margin. Images mainly 21 x 26.5 cm
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George F. Grace: A memorial photograph album prepared in memory of his late wife, Carrie, circa 1894., As well as photographs of their family, Grace appears to have assembled and annotated albumen prints of places they visited, which include - Gibraltar, Italy, the Suez Canal, Ceylon, Australia, New Zealand (with particular emphasis on Blenheim, Nelson and Missionary activities there), Brazil, Teneriffe and home to England. The album with 88 photographs plus several loosely inserted. Various sizes mainly…
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Just the Thing, Tasmania Illustrated With Photographs. John E. Galwey Proprietor, Manufactured by Walch & Sons, Hobart Town for the Bush Hotel, Tasmania Illustrated with photographs by Anson Bros. Tasmania. Tourist album showcasing photographs of local Tasmanian attractions and establishments made for the Bush Hotel, Hobart circa 1880. Attractively bound in leather with gold embossing. Business advertisements include local stationers, chemists & druggists, jewellers & watchmakers, glovers & clothiers,…
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Visit of members of New Zealand Legislature to the Cook and other Islands 1903. Photograph album with 100 mounted, captioned prints. The Cook Islands were annexed to New Zealand in 1901. Walter Edward Gudgeon became Resident Commissioner. Inside cover is signed G R Gudgeon, perhaps a descendant of the Resident., each 11 x 15.5 cm
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New Zealand: Leather-bound album containing a collection of albumen prints by Frank A. Coxhead, Burton Brothers, Wheeler & Son, James Valentine and others. Includes Dunedin scenes, Christchurch, Invercargill, Queenstown,Milford Sound, Auckland, Momona Bay, Wellington, etc. (62 images)., Majority of photographs 14 x 19 cm with some slightly larger.
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Unknown Photographer, Four views of Sydney, including Entrance to Sydney Heads, Railway Station, Sydney, Ocean Beach Manly and Greenwich Wharf (Parramatta River), average 14.5 x 25 cm
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Unknown Photographer, Three photographs depicting Barossa Creamery, South Australia and two views of Mount Gambier, average size of each 15.5 x 25 cm
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D S Wylie, Australian Photos No.4, Leather-bound album with gold embossed title, 68 photographs, mainly 16.5 x 26 cm and all neatly titled in the margins below the images., From an Expedition to North-West Australia in 1926, includes images of Camperdown, Rose Bay, Lacepede Islands, Cygnet Bay, Yampi Sound, Brecknock Harbour, Broome, the Montgomery Islands, Cape Leveque, Port George Mission, Melbourne Cup, Queenscliff, Sydney, Coolangatta, Albury C.C., Camooweal, etc.
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Thomas Foster Chuck (Circa 1826-1898) photographer: Blue bound album with 60 photographs of Regional Victoria, Government House and Botanical Gardens, Maryborough, Warrnambool, Queenscliff, etc. Annotated in pencil below each image. Mainly 14 x 19 cm.
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Album containing 76 prints of Tasmania including Port Arthur & Gaol, Launceston, New Norfolk, Hobart, as well as some Victorian scenes including Sandhurst, Port Chalmers New Zealand, Sydney, etc. Very diverse sizes but mainly 10 x 15 cm some larger, largest being 18 x 21.5 cm.
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Photographer unknown: Two photographs laid down on a large page: the first inscribed 'Mr A Kennedy's, Davey Street, Hobartown 1862', the second inscribed Mr Thompson's, Potts Point, Sydney'.
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Claret coloured leather-bound album with gold embossed title 'Souvenirs of Melbourne' circa 1875, comprising 52 albumen prints, some certainly by Nicholas John Caire (1937-1918) with his blindstamp in the image, another apparently by Thomas Washbourne. Mainly 10.5 x 15.5 cm
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[Byrne, L.J.]. Visit of the Detached Squadron with their Royal Highnesses Prince Edward and Prince George of Wales to Brisbane, from 16th to 20th August, 1881. Brisbane, 1881. Quarto, with 10 mounted photographic plates and a tinted lithograph, title printed in four colours and the text within borders of four alternating colours, original green morocco gilt-lettered on the front board within gilt border, spine gilt-decorated, gilt edges. A fine, clean copy of a work rarely found in this condition. With a…
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Album of family portrait photographs: 81 images in various sizes, most appear to be by Melbourne and Victorian town photographers, circa 1880s., Mainly oval windows 8.5 x 5.5 cm, some larger
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Australian School, Queen's Wharf on River Yarra, Melbourne, photograph, verso monument to Bourke and Wills, 11 x 17 cm
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Charles Bristow Walker (1835-1901) Photographs of Melbourne & Suburbs, [c.1897]. Each photograph is titled in pencil. 30 photographic prints mounted in an album with gold lettered title on front cover. The British photographer Charles Bristow Walker arrived in Melbourne in 1886., each 14 x 19.5 cm
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Photographs of Victoria, An album containing 74 photographs, circa 1910, mainly regional centres including Bendigo, Ballarat, Harcourt, Anglesea, Sassafras, Warburton, Woodend, Apollo Bay, Emerald, Yarra Junction, Cape Schanck, Flinders, Warrandyte, etc., mostly 11 x 15.5 cm
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Stephen Spurling (1821-1892), Cataract Cliff Grounds, Launceston, Tasmania, a suite of six photographs with watercolour decoration, 35.5 x 45.5 cm
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Album - Samoa, Fiji, Tonga and New Zealand, 50 photographs by John Davis, C. Pulman, James Valentine and others. Various sizes.
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