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A corner of Parramatta Park looking towards the King's School, Parramatta, around July 1870 / American and Australasian Photographic Company
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Title:
A corner of Parramatta Park looking towards the King's School, 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: 11568. Also inscribed, in ink: 'F.T. Watkins / Parramatta'.
Subject:
Parramatta Park (N.S.W.)
Parramatta River (N.S.W.)
picket fences
parks
crowds
pavilions
horsedrawn vehicles
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.
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:
37827
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