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A short article on an unusual photo-micrograph found buried in the State Library of NSW picture files. It was taken by an amateur photographer, Edward Wolstenholme Ward, who joined the Royal Engineers before coming to Sydney in 1854 to take up the…
The adoption of photography for the reduction of maps was pioneered by England’s Ordnance Survey offices in 1855. Their work is outlined in detail in a rare book held by the State Library of New South Wales which provides some unique and important…
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New post on early Arctic photographs by George Rexworthy De Wilde - The first book to include photographs of the Arctic was published by William Bradford in 1873. The second was The Cruise of the Pandora by Sir Allen Young which followed Young’s…
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The Queen’s second son, fifteen-year-old Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the first royal to tour to the colonies on this side of the globe, he steamed out from England on board HMS Euryalus, in 1860, bound for the Cape Colony in South…
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I have created WIkipedia article on Edwin Dalton who was a portrait painter and photographer active in England and Australia from 1818 to 1865. Edwin (Edward) Dalton exhibited at the London Royal Academy between 1818 and 1844, and received the…
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Well after a long gestation period the new exhibition I've been curating at the State Library of New South Wales has opened. Arranged chronologically Shot covers the years 1845 to 2022 and is a major retrospective of photography in Australia. With…
