Sun Images of Australia: 19th Century Photography
City Life: New South Wales
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41 W. Hall
A View of Sydney from the North Shore, c.1880s. Albumen paper print, 18 x 22.7cm. Laid down on original album page. Minor tears to sky on either side.
Looking at Fort Macquarie from above Admiralty House.

$990
42 Charles Bayliss
Peate & Harcourt Grocers and Wine Merchants, c.1880s. Albumen paper print, 13.3 x 18.3cm (the sheet 27.8 x 23cm).
The photograph is laid down on original page of advertising text for the wine and spirit merchants.

$990
43 Henry King
Circular Quay, Sydney, c.1880s. Albumen paper print, signed, titled and numbered 193 in the plate lower left, 15.1 x 20.4cm.
View from the street looking towards the terminus, with horses in foreground.

$1,100
44 W. Hall
Circular Quay, Sydney, c.1880s. Albumen paper print, titled, signed and numbered 936 in the plate, 14.6 x 13.1cm. Laid down on original album page.
Taken from a building just behind the Paragon Hotel, looking across to Kirribilli. The view is unusual in that a wide angle has been used.

$1,200
45 Kerry & Co.
Wool Stores, Circular Quay, c.1880s. Albumen paper print, numbered 2960, titled in the plate lower left, 15.3 x 20.1cm.
This is East Circular Quay, where the promenade to the Opera House now is.

$890
46 Anon
Manly Beach, September (Manly Wharf), c.1890s. Cyano-type, titled and annotated in ink verso, 15.1 x 20.8cm.
Annotated verso: "Iris on sailor's frock": two of the three children playing in the sand in the foreground are dressed in sailor's outfits. A Manly ferry is at the wharf.

$890
47 Anon
Balmain, c.1890s. Albumen paper print, titled in the plate, 10.5 x 15cm.
View from the shore at Balmain showing 18 footers on Sydney Harbour.

$790
48 Government Printer
(Stockton Docks, Newcastle), c.1890s. Albumen paper print, numbered 38 in ink upper right, 25 x 34.6cm. Minor foxing; minor fading on edges.

$990
49 Adamson
Archer II, c.1900. Platinum print, titled in pencil verso, blind stamp lower right, 22.5 x 27.2cm.
Blind stamp of "Adamson Rothesay NB".

$1,100
50 Adamson
Meteor III, c.1902. Platinum print, titled in pencil verso, blind stamp lower right, 23 x 27.8cm.
Blind stamp of "Adamson Rothesay NB". Kaiser Wilhelm's yacht, Meteor III, recorded the fastest time over the Queen's Course at Cowes in 1902.

$1,100