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Kerry & Co. Harbour from north Sydney (from Holtermann's…
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Melbourne
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3-Jun-2009
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Kerry & Co. Harbour from north Sydney (from Holtermann's Tower)/1920s two panel panorama, silver gelatin prints laid down on linen 37.5 x 114.5 cm titled, numbered '22' and signed 'Kerry Sydney' in the plate lower right Places are noted as follows, left to right: Darling harbour, goat Island, berry's Bay, long Nose point, Biloela, Parramatta river, Lane cover river, the panels of this panorama are unequal in size, the panorama was probably taken with the 40 cm Cirkut camera imported by Kerry c1908, 'The Introduction of which Caused great Interest in Sydney Photographic Circles' (David P. Millar, Charles Kerry's Federation Australia, David Ell press 1981.), the Studio photographer was most likely Willem van der Velden, who used the camera to document the arrival of the American Fleet in 1908. 'Assisted by young Robin Cale, van Used the Cirkut to record Panoramas of Sydney from Every Lofty Vantage point', the vantage point would have been Holtermann's Tower on the site of what is now Shore school at the top of blue Street, north Sydney
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Printed & Written Material: Photographs