William
Street, Sydney, looking east from a point just
below the Australian Museum. In the foreground
can be seen an assistant holding a spare dark slide.
The terrace along the left skyline still stands-this
is Alberto Terrace, in Darlinghurst Road, at that
time regarded as Sydney's "largest and finest." Mitchell,
of Mitchell Library fame, lived just beyond its northernmost
end. (Year, 1873; photographer, Merlin; format, 10" x
12')
images
below are as cropped
in the original journal
A
group outside the Post Office Hotel (111 York Street,
Sydney), showing
Holtermann on
the extreme right, street level. The latter's
diary mentions the fact that he finalised the purchase
of the hotel on April 16th, 1874.
Bradshaw's "General
Guide and A.B.C. Gazeteer of September, 1866" contains
an engraving depicting the hotel with John Jacobs'
name appearing as proprietor.
It describes "this, favourite hotel as well
adapted for gentlemen, families and storekeepers.
Being near the Post Office, principal Banks and
Warehouses, and, as it has just been redecorated
and newly furnished
with another storey added, there is very superior
accommodation, handsome drawing-rooms, and large
and well ventilated bedrooms, bathrooms and every
convenience that a first-class hotel requires."
N.B.-York
St. appears to have been re-numbered at a subsequent
date; the previous No. 111 would
have
been between King and Barrack Sts. (Year, 1874;
photographer, Bayliss; format, 18' x 22')
Circular
Quay, Sydney, in the winter of 1873, showing
the sailing vessels "Surrey" and "La
Hogue." ( ?) This is one of a very extensive
Harbour series attractively photographed during
this period. (Year, 1873; photographer, Merlin;
format, 10' x 12")
Wool-teams
arriving at Dubbo from sheep stations in Brewarrina
and other districts to the north-west. The
scene is in Macquarie St., the buildings being
respectively Serisier's Stores and the Overland
Hotel. (Year, 1872/3; photographer, Merlin;
format, 10" x
12")
Looking
west to Albert Park and Port Melbourne, one
of a number of exposures making up an extensive
panorama from the tower of Government House,
Botanical Gardens,
Melbourne. (Year, summer 1875/76; photographer,
Bayliss; format, 18" x 22")
The
University of Sydney main building (completed 1859),
looking west along Parramatta Rd. from the
corner of Bay St., now occupied by Grace Bros.
The omnibuses were those of the Sydney Tramway and
Omnibus Company,
which had a depot nearby. (Note: There is no
evidence that the company ever conducted a tramway.)
(Year, 1873; photographer, Merlin; format, 10" x
12")
Observatory
Hill from Holtermann's Tower-sections of one
exposure of the 360° panorama made with
the 100" lens on the 18" x 22" camera. Features
include
St. Phillip's on Church Hill, the Town Hall
and St. Andrew's Cathedral, and, faintly in
the distance,
the Exhibition Building in Prince Alfred Park.
There is a considerable degree of foreshortening
due to
the use of so powerful a telephoto lens. (Year,
1875; photographer, Bayliss; format, 18" x
22")
Commodore
Goodenough's funeral cortege assembling at Milson's
Point on the afternoon of August 24th,
1875. We are indebted to H. J. Rumsek for
identifying the picture and supplying this historical
data: " The
following notice, together with a portrait
and accounts of the massacre and funeral,
appeared in the 'Sydney Mail' of August 28, 1875:
'A
Gazette extraordinary was issued as follows:
Colonial
Secretary's Office. His Excellency the Governor,
with feelings of deep regret for the
public loss sustained, announces
to the ,Colony the death on Friday, August
20, from wounds received at Santa Cruz (Carlisle
Bay)
on the 12th of the same month, of James
G. Goodenough, C.B., C.M.G., Captain and Commodore
Commanding
Australian Station.
The
funeral procession will move from Milson's Point,
North Shore, at 3 o'clock
p.m. to-morrow,
24th August, and his Excellency,. With
a desire to show -every possible respect to the
memory
of the deceased, directs that the Public Offices
be
closed and -invites the attendance of all
Officers of the Government.
By His Excellency's
Command, John Robertson, Colonial Secretary.'
"
The 'Sydney Morning Herald’ of Aug. 24/25
also has reports and, in addition, a poem of
thirty lines, 'in Memoriam,' of which the two
first are:
'Slowly
the long procession moves with solemn
sound
Ere one of England's noblest men be laid in
New World ground . .
Note
- Close inspection indicates that the coffin is
still on board the
paddle-steamer
and that
the naval ratings are preparing,, to draw
it to land.
The paddle-steamer would probably have been
the "Transit," the
vagaries of which were the subject of much
contemporary comment. (Year, 1875; photographer,
Bayliss; format, 18' x 22')
Ballarat,
showing portion of the city and the goldmines
- one exposure in a nine-exposure 360° panorama
photographed from the tower of the Town
Hall. (Year, 1874; photographer, Bayliss;
format, 18' x 18')
