Detail View: Rylands Collection: Port Jackson

Image Number: 
JRL023394tr
Reference Number: 
JA/33/1/2
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Port Jackson
Alternative Image Title: 
Jevons album
Series Title: 
Photographs, portraits and related items
Parent Work Title: 
Album of photographs, '1853-8'
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Australian photographs taken or collected by William Stanley Jevons
Creator: 
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role: 
Photographer
Date Created: 
1853-1858
Page/Sheet: 
Print 85-87
Image Sequence Number: 
085
Description: 
Print 85: Port Jackson; Print 86: Large Aloe; Print 87: Norfolk pine and Oleander tree in Severn's garden. 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.
Language Code: 
eng
Language: 
English
Subject: 
Trees
Subject: 
Botany
Subject: 
Natural History
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: 
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
People Covered: 
Severn, Henry Augustus, 1833-1883
Item Height: 
Print 85: 70 mm
Item Height: 
Print 86: 93 mm
Item Height: 
Print 87: 93 mm
Item Width: 
Print 85: 164 mm
Item Width: 
Print 86: 62 mm
Item Width: 
Print 87: 62 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: 
Prints 86 and 87 appear in the album JA 33/1/1 as 48 and 52 respectively
Multi Page Number: 
300
Image Creation Technique: 
Scanned from colour transparency by Gten, January 2006
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2006-02
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB