COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL023256tr
Reference Number:
JA/33/1/1
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Jevons & his associates
Alternative Image Title:
Jevons album
Series Title:
Photographs, portraits and related items
Parent Work Title:
Album 'commenced Nov. 26th 1857'
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Australian photographs taken or collected by William Stanley Jevons
Creator:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role:
Photographer
Date Created:
1857-12-04
Page/Sheet:
Print 26-31
Image Sequence Number:
026
Description:
Six photographic portraits of Jevons and his associates, each with the initials of the person and the date the photograph was taken. Print 26: G. (Hugh Gilchrist, clerk at the Sydney Royal Mint); Print 27: J.M.; Print 28: W.S.J. (William Stanley Jevons); Print 29: W.S.J. (William Stanley Jevons); Print 30: J.T. (Joseph Trickett of the S.R.M.); Print 31: F.H.G. (F.H. Grundy). The photographs are in a collection of photographs of Australia, taken or compiled by William Stanley Jevons during the 1850s. Between 1854-1859 Jevons was employed as assayer at the Sydney mint and also carried out detailed social surveys of the city's slums. 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.
Language Code:
eng
Language:
English
Category of Material:
Archives
Sub-Category:
Analogue photography
Sub-Category:
Portraits
Support:
Paper
Creation Site:
Australia: New South Wales
Time Period Covered:
19th Century CE
Places Covered:
Australia: New South Wales
People Covered:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
People Covered:
Trickett, Joseph, 1817-1878
People Covered:
Grundy, Francis Henry, 1822-1889
People Covered:
Gilchrist, Hugh, 1822-1907
Item Height:
Print 26: 88 mm
Item Height:
Print 27: 88 mm
Item Height:
Print 28: 90 mm
Item Height:
Print 29: 89 mm
Item Height:
Print 30: 90 mm
Item Height:
Print 31: 89 mm
Item Width:
Print 26: 64 mm
Item Width:
Print 27: 65 mm
Item Width:
Print 28: 64 mm
Item Width:
Print 29: 64 mm
Item Width:
Print 30: 65 mm
Item Width:
Print 31: 65 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
References:
P. McNiven, `Handlist of the Jevons Archives in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester', Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, vol. 66 (1983-4), pp. 213-55
Notes:
Print 30 and Print 31 appear in the album JA 33/1/2 as Print 47 and Print 50 respectively
Multi Page Number:
55
Image Creation Technique:
Scanned from colour transparency by Gten, January 2006
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2006-02
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Jevons & his associates
