Exhibition dates: 23rd February – 12th May 2013
![American & Australasian Photographic Company. '[Merlin's photographic cart ?] and Mitchell's London Hotel, Railway Place, Sandridge [Port Melbourne]' 1870-1875](https://artblart.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/american-australasian-photographic-company-merlins-photographic-cart-and-mitchells-london-hotel-railway-place-sandridge-port-melbourne-1870-1875-web.jpg "American & Australasian Photographic Company. '[Merlin's photographic cart ?] and Mitchell's London Hotel, Railway Place, Sandridge [Port Melbourne]' 1870-1875")
American & Australasian Photographic Company
[Merlin’s photographic cart?] and Mitchell’s London Hotel, Railway Place, Sandridge [Port Melbourne]
1870-1875
Another fascinating posting, this time featuring Australian colonial photography. In 1951, a hoard of 3,500 glass plate negatives from the nineteenth century was discovered in a garden shed in Chatswood. In time, the find proved to be the most important photographic documentation of goldfields life in Australia. All negatives have now been scanned at high resolution and for the first time in 140 years, it is possible to see what Merlin and Bayliss (from the American & Australasian Photographic Company) photographed, with astonishing clarity and fidelity. “Many of the images in the Holtermann collection were created for an ambitious 1870s publicity campaign to sell the wonders of the Australian colonies to the world.”
What I find particularly interesting is the familiarity…
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It’s amazing all those negatives have survived for such a long period of time.
This blog is nice and amazing. I really like your post! It’s also nice to see someone who does a lot of research and has a great knack for writing, which is pretty rare from bloggers these days. Thanks!