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1883. Hardcover. Very good condition. 63 large albumen photographs by the renowned British born Australian photographer Nicholas Caire, in a wonderful Australian photograph album, comprising 36 views of Melbourne, 18 of New South Wales, and 9 of Ballarat. Most pages feature at least one photograph with the name of the town on a label laid down above the image, and a period title written in ink below. These include a number of very interesting photographs with identifying business signage or posters, including one of the partially built new cathedral with its protective construction fence plastered with posters. Ballarat's Mining Exchange building is another remarkable image depicting some 50 well dressed people posing in the street in front of the building. Caire (1837 - 1918) worked under the photographer Townsend Duryea; by 1865 he was making images of the Indigenous Australians in Gippsland. In 1867 he opened his first studio in Adelaide, and in 1876 a second studio in Collins Street,…
Read More Selectors' camp, Yarra Ranges, Victoria, late 1880s. by CAIRE, Nicholas John (1837-1918)
by CAIRE, Nicholas John (1837-1918)
Selectors' camp, Yarra Ranges, Victoria, late 1880s.
by CAIRE, Nicholas John (1837-1918)
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Albumen print photograph, 240 x 290 mm, laid down on its original album page (split card) with caption in ink beneath image 'Selectors Camp Gippsland'; a strong print with rich tones and excellent contrast; the detail is so sharp that the printed commercial labels on the tins of salmon in the men's temporary shelter can easily be read. This evocative image was taken by Melbourne photographer N. J. Caire in the foothills of the Yarra Ranges on Gippsland's western fringe. The National Library of Australia holds another example, contained in a late nineteenth-century travel album, which has a manuscript caption that identifies the location as Ferntree Gully.
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Melbourne, New South Wales and Ballarat, Australian photographs. Album
by Caire, Nicholas John
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Greenham & Evans (fl. ca. 1895-1900); King, Henry (1855-1923); Caire, Nicholas John (1837-1918); Sargeant, Albert & Others. Album with 77 Original Gelatin Silver and Albumen Studio Photographs of Australia and Tasmania, Showing Perth, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Gippsland Lakes, Hobart, Strahan (Tasmania), Cape Raoul, Fren Tree Bower, Portraits of Aboriginal Australians, Gold Miners, Tree Loggers, &c. Ca. 1880s-1890s.
by GREENHAM & EVANS (fl. ca. 1895-1900); KING, Henry (1855-1923); CAIRE, Nicholas John (1837-1918); SARGEANT, Albert & OTHERS
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Oblong Folio album (ca. 34x40,5 cm or 13 ¼ x 16 in). 24 card stock leaves. With 77 mounted original gelatin silver and albumen photos, mostly from ca. 18x24 cm (7 x 9 ½ in) to ca. 14,5x19,5 cm (5 ¾ x 7 ¾ in); two smaller photos at the rear are ca. 9,5x15 cm (3 ¾ x 6 in). Over twenty photos are captioned and/or numbered in negative; seven photos with blind stamps “Henry King Photo, Sydney” in the right lower corners; nine photos with period pencil captions in Italian on the mounts. The first leaf with four mounted real photo and printed postcards, each ca. 9x13,5 cm (3 ½ x 5 ¼ in); all with period pencil captions in French on the mounts. Period full vellum album; gilt-tooled ornaments on the front board and the spine; decorative endpapers; all edges gilt. Binding slightly soiled, mild foxing on…
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