Hardcover
1872 · Australia
Australia, 1872. Hardcover. Near Fine. Period dark green gilt-tooled half morocco with dark green pebbled cloth boards and gilt stamped title "Photographs 1872" on front cover. Rebacked in period style, overall the album is in very good condition and the images are generally strong and sharp. 16 album leaves with. 42 albumen photos including 14 larger ones (5" x7") and 28 smaller ones (2.5" x 3.5"). The majority captioned in brown ink on the album leaves. Images of Sydney, Melbourne, and Bendigo, as well three images of ships. The views in this collection include: Sydney (13) including Botanic Gardens, from above Athol, Darling Harbour from St. Philips' Looking W., from St. Philips' Looking N.E., Government House, University, Wynyard Square, H.M.S. Galatea, Near Mount Victoria etc.,; Melbourne (13) including Town Hall, General Post Office, University, Houses of Parliament, Public Library, National Gallery, Government Printing Office, Treasury, Melbourne & Hobsons Bay Railway Pier, Sandridge, Fitzroy Gardens, Bourke Street, East, Independent Church, Collins Street, Collins Street; Auckland Harbour, N.Z.; Bendigo (12) Pall Mall, Looking N., N. Of Pall Mall, looking S., View Point, Forest Street, Looking N.E., Old Market Place, From Castle, Looking S.E. Across Roslyn Park, From Castle Shewing Extended Hustlers & Pups, Koch's Pioneer Quartz-crushing Works, View looking N. Over Ironbark Gully & Long Gully, Iron Bark & Macluries or Garden Gully Reef. Ships (3) including Peninsula & Oriental Company Steamship "Peshawur." This historically significant album shows Sydney, Melbourne, and Bendigo in the post-Victorian gold rush era. The discovery of gold in Bendigo in the 1850s made it one of the most significant Victorian era boomtowns in Australia, these images document the area in the earlier days of its prosperity. (Inventory #: 405721)