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			Creator		Tronier, August
			Title		Album of photographic views of Sydney, ca. 1879-1884 / Tronier Artist Photographer
			Level of Description		Collection
			Date of Work		ca. 1879-1884
			Type of Material		Graphic Materials
			Call Number		PXA 411
			Issue Copy		Digitised :
			Physical Description		Albums : 1 album (29 albumen photoprints) ; 26.5 x 37.5 cm.
			Contents		1. [The original Macquarie Lighthouse, before 1882] 2. [Hornby Lighthouse] 3. [View of Macleay Point and Potts Point from Darling Point] 4-5. [Garden Palace, 1879] 6. [Woolloomooloo Bay] 7. [View of West Circular Quay] 8. [International Exhibition Building, 1879] 9. [Botanical Gardens] 10. [View from Mrs Macquarie's Point looking at Garden Palace] 11. [Botanical Gardens, at Mrs Macquarie's Point?] 12. [Bridge in Botanical Gardens] 13-14. [Views of Botanical Gardens with Garden Palace in background] 15. [Botanical Gardens] 16. [Gatehouse at Botanical Gardens] 17. [no page 17] 18-19. [Views of the Garden Palace] 20-21. [Government House] 22. [White Horse Point, Balmain, with Spectacle and Schnapper Islands] 23. [Mort Bay] 24. [Birksgate in dry dock with hole from incident with Barrabool in 1884] 25. Gov. Bourke's Statue & Macquarie St. 26. [Jewish Synagogue, Elizabeth Street] 27. Old Exhibition Building [Prince Alfred Park] 28-29. The celebrated Fitzroy Waterfalls
			Source		Transferred from Mitchell Library Printed Books Collection, Q986/A, 1996 Bequeathed by D.S. Mitchell, 1907


			Copying Conditions		Out of copyright - Created before 1955 Please acknowledge: - Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
			Signatures / Inscriptions		Photographs are stamped on the reverse, "Tronier / Artist Photographer". Two photographs bear handwritten titles on album page below image though in a different hand. "Album of Photographic Views" embossed on front cover
			Date Note		Dated from the presence of the Garden Palace in the Botanic Gardens photograph.
			General Note		Nos. 28 and 29 have printed text relating to the Falls on album page below image. No. 17 not located Jan. 2004 "D.S. Mitchell" signature on reverse of front endpaper.
			Name		Birksgate (steamship)
			Subject		David Scott Mitchell Collection.
			Topic		bays botanical gardens buildings, structures & establishments exhibition halls foreshores harbours houses lighthouses ships synagogues
			Place		Balmain (N.S.W.) Circular Quay West (Sydney, N.S.W.) Exhibition Building (Prince Alfred Park, N.S.W.) Fitzroy Falls (N.S.W.) Garden Palace (Domain, Sydney, N.S.W.) Government House (Sydney, N.S.W.) Hornby Lighthouse (South Head, N.S.W.) Macleay Point (N.S.W.) Macquarie Lighthouse (Sydney, N.S.W.) Mort Bay (Balmain, N.S.W.) Mrs Macquarie's Point (Sydney, N.S.W.) Potts Point (N.S.W.) Royal Botanic Gardens (Sydney, N.S.W.) Woolloomooloo (N.S.W.)
			Digital order no.		Album ID : 824120