Banyan-tree On Thompson’s Farm, Lord Howe Island
1882. Albumen paper photograph, annotated “no. 6” in negative lower right, captioned “Lord Howe Island” and dated in pencil on backing verso, 22.8 x 28.3cm. Slight foxing to upper edge, laid down on original backing. A man stands in the foreground of this image, giving scale to the tree, which covers an area of three acres. Illustrated in Wilson, Report of the Present State and Future Prospects of Lord Howe Island, 1882, p29. John Sharkey, the first official NSW government photographer (from 1869 to 1896), was part of the 1882 scientific expedition to Lord Howe Island led by politician John Bowie Wilson. Sharkey’s photographs are the earliest known of the island and its residents. Ref: G. Newton & P. Costigan, Photo-web; University of California.
Item #CL194-56
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