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Title:
St John's Church, Parramatta, around July 1870 / American and Australasian Photographic Company
Creator:
American and Australasian Photographic Company.
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 4 Barrack St" and is numbered, in pencil: 11486.
Subject:
churches
historic buildings
spires
St. John's Church of England (Parramatta, N.S.W.)
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 must be one of those views.
Published in:
Shylie & Ken Brown
Parramatta, a town caught in time, 1870
(Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1995) p.26
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:
37822
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