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Looking south along Marsden Street, Parramatta, from the front garden of an old cottage, around July 1870 / American and Australasian Photographic Company
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Title:
Looking south along Marsden Street, Parramatta, from the front garden of an old cottage, around July 1870 / American and Australasian Photographic Company
Creator:
Date:
1870
Format:
1 carte-de-visite ; sepia toned ; 6.5 x 10.5 cm.
Inscription:
Verso carries the printed trade label of the "American and Australasian Photographic Company / Melbourne Office 73 Little Collins St / Sydney Office 11 Barrack St" and is numbered, in pencil: 11591.
Subject:
Description:
The photographer Beaufoy Merlin and his American and Australasian Photographic Company arrived in Sydney from Victoria around July 1870, via several country towns in New South Wales. In an advertisement placed in the Sydney Morning Herald on 21 September 1870 he announced that they had "now just completed taking nearly 800 views of Parramatta alone". This photograph may be one of those views.
Provenance:
Estate of Rosalie Ann Watkins, nee Thorne, (1850-1927) of Penrose, Marsden Street Parramatta; Kenneth Stewart, Sydney antiquarian bookseller.
Source:
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; CSL&RC PIC: small picture file : American & Australasian Photographic Co.
Rights:
You may save or print this image for research and study. If you wish to use it for any other purposes, you must contact Museums of History NSW to request permission.
Material Type:
Picture
Record number:
35641