royal engineers (1)

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 position of deputy-master to the Sydney Mint. Here he worked with other keen amateur photographers Robert Fellows Hunt and William Stanley Jevons who were part of an active photography scene in Sydney in the late 1850s. full article

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