Detail View: Rylands Collection: Sydney view & house

Image Number: 
JRL023276tr
Reference Number: 
JA/33/1/1
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Sydney view & house
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
Creator: 
Hunt, Robert
Creator Role: 
Photographer
Date Created: 
1858
Page/Sheet: 
Print 64-65
Image Sequence Number: 
064
Description: 
Two photographs taken by Robert Hunt. Print 64: Mr Piper's house, North Shore, March 1858; Print 65: Dawes Point, Battery, Fort Phillip etc, 10th April 1858. 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. Frederick Piper was a partner in the Sheffield firm of Levicks & Piper; he was not associated with the mint, but Jevons had a letter of introduction to Piper from his father.
Category of Material: 
Archives
Sub-Category: 
Analogue photography
Support: 
Paper
Creation Site: 
Australia: New South Wales: Sydney
Time Period Covered: 
19th Century CE
Places Covered: 
Australia: New South Wales: Sydney
People Covered: 
Piper, Frederick, 1818-1860
People Covered: 
Hunt, Robert, 1830-1892
People Covered: 
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Item Height: 
Print 64: 138 mm
Item Height: 
Print 65: 69 mm
Item Width: 
Print 64: 194 mm
Item Width: 
Print 65: 196 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: 
Creative Commons License
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 64 also appears in the album JA 33/1/2 as Print 107
Multi Page Number: 
95
Image Creation Technique: 
Scanned from colour transparency by Gten, January 2006
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2006-02
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB