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A fine nineteenth century album of photographs compiled by a…
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Melbourne
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29-Nov-2020
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A fine nineteenth century album of photographs compiled by a traveller, the album 29 x 43 cm, full leather with blind tooled decoration, upper and lower boards with gilt ornament and upper board titled in gilt 'Australian Photographs', marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, containing 119 albumen print photographs in various formats mounted back-to-back on 52 leaves of thick card, all with contemporary handwritten captions., contents include Melbourne and regional Victoria, Sydney and New South Wales, Adelaide and South Australia, Brisbane and Queensland, Hobart, New Zealand and far north Australia (final 3 images) attributable to Samuel sweet and dating to around 1872 showing the Roper river and a team working on the Overland Telegraph on the Gulf of Carpentaria.
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