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An album of albumen paper prints, each titled below the image.…
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Melbourne
Date:
20-Jun-2016
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An album of albumen paper prints, each titled below the image. Collected on a World Tour in 1895, various photographers. Begins with Rms Orizaba, followed by images of Plymouth, Gibraltar, Naples, Pompeii, Port Said, the Suez Canal, Colombo, a two-section panoramic view of Albany W.A., Sydney, the Jenolan Caves, Blue Mountains, Melbourne, Adelaide, Oran, Algiers, Tunis, Sardinia, Pisa, Turin, etc. (84 photos,1 loose), various sizes, largest being 21 x 27.5 cm, smallest being 21 x 15 cm., Rms Orizaba was a mail steamer wrecked off Rockingham, Western Australia on 16 February 1905. On her approach to Fremantle, a smog of bushfire smoke was obscuring the coast and the captain lost his bearings. The ship went aground in 20' of water on Five Fathom Bank, west of Garden Island
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Unclassified