Album of photographs of Tasmania

Title:

Album of photographs of Tasmania / [compiled by] R. C. Poulter.

Production:

[Tasmania?] : R.C. Poulter, [between 1860 and 1920]

Physical description:

Approximately 200 photographic prints in 1 album, with 68 unnumbered pages : black and white, chiefly silver albumen ; in album 375 x 290 mm, boards 364 x 263 mm.

Binding:

Full leather binding, covers in brown, corners and spine in red, with gold stripe detail.

Medium:

paper; silver albumen; positive

Format:

album

photograph

image (online)

Source note:

Title devised by cataloguer based on contents; 'R.C Poulter' inscribed inside front cover.

Accession number:

FA1304

Notes:

Title assigned by cataloguer.

History note:

Reginald Clifford Poulter was born in Bath, Somerset, England, in 1847. By 1901, Poulter had found his way to Tasmania and married Evangeline Watson. The couple travelled to Melbourne on the Coogee on 25 March and departed Sydney for Honolulu on the Souoma via Auckland on 9 May 1901. They returned to Melbourne on 18 December 1905 per Grosser Kurfurst. Poulter sent photos of his travels to the Weekly Courier between 1904-1907, and his death at his home in Dorking, Surry (England) was reported in the Examiner on 2/9/1908.--Acquisition notes.

Contents:

First government house at Risdon -- Port Arthur -- Reverend Eastman in Port Arthur Chapel pulpit -- Treadmill at Rocky Hills station -- Captain O’Hara Booth – Port Arthur Commandant -- Cascades -- Watch house at Lewisham -- Saelwater river convict buildings -- Coal miners station, Mt Lepus (Beattie) -- Reprints of convict portraits -- Sir John Franklin, Governor -- Sir John Franklin’s yacht ‘Eliza’ -- Sir William Denison -- Macquarie Street -- Mount Wellington shelter -- Roxburgh House ‘rats castle’ -- J.G. Parker warehouse -- Bridgewater causeway -- Austins Ferry -- Old Black Snake Inn, Bridgewater (Beattie) -- Hunter Street -- ‘Wapping’ – Lower Collins Street -- ‘Royal William’ mail barge -- Corner Murray and Morrison circa 1890s -- Tolmans woodyard -- Franklin Square 1890, circa 1870 -- ‘Southern Cross’ Antarctic ship 1897 -- ‘Terra Nova’ Antarctic ship 1910 -- ‘Morning’ Antarctic ship -- ‘Aurora’ Antarctic ship 1911 -- ‘SS Monarch’ ship -- Mariners church -- Sandy Bay Road -- Union Hotel corner Liverpool and Campbell Street -- TML railway near Clarendon 1878 -- Elizabeth Street -- Hutchins school -- Bank of Van Diemen’s Land 1890 -- Hobart Post Office -- Macquarie House -- Davey Street -- Collegiate School -- Goss Street -- Royal Society Museum (later Athenaeum Club) -- Ship Hotel corner Elizabeth and Collins Street -- Murray Street -- Brisbane Street -- Bird in Hand Hotel -- Battery Point from Treasury buildings circa 1856 -- Perkins and Nephews Store corner Liverpool Street (later site of Strand Picture Theatre) -- Millers shop circa 1860s -- Hobart after demolition of Gaol, Waterloo House -- St David’s Cemetery -- St David’s Cathedral -- New Town -- Risdon Road -- Stoke Street -- David Banday’s house from Barracks -- Cornelian Bay 1880 -- British Hotel, Liverpool Street -- Corner Collins and Argyle Street -- Corner Liverpool and Elizabeth Street circa 1860s-1870s -- Argyle Street -- Corner Liverpool and Murray Street early 1900s -- Campbell Street -- Mount Wellington pinnacle circa 1870s -- Richmond circa 1870s -- Old Payne the scissors grinder in front of J.B. Mathers & Sons -- Bellerive from Rosny circa 1860-1870s -- Hobart from Glebe (panorama) -- Hobart from Gubbins Lane showing demolition of St Mary’s cathedral circa 1870s -- St David’s Cathedral -- Derwent Inn, Risdon Ferry featuring Thomas D Jennings ‘Tasmania’s fat man, 32 stone’ -- Thomas Arnold, inspector of schools -- Thomas Yardley Lowes, owner of Cascades distillery -- Colonel T.G. Browne, Governor -- David Burns -- Henry Stopkins, Merchant -- Oatlands windmill 1865 -- Bush Hotel, New Norfolk -- ‘Big Ben’ tree, Port Esperance (Beattie) -- ‘Nobby’ Dixon, cigar vendor (Beattie) -- Cascades water mill.

Summary:

Album of photographs of Tasmanian urban and rural settings, colonial identities and historical paintings. Also includes photographs of artworks and prints of images held or originally published elsewhere. Pencilled inscriptions below photographs, some possibly made after Poulter's death.

Condition:

Condition on accession: 20151009. Binding well worn, leather spine detached from album, fly spotting on some pages.

Citation:

Digitised item from: Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania.

Subjects:

Landscapes -- Tasmania -- Photographs.

Cities and towns -- Tasmania -- Photographs.

Tasmania -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs.

Hobart (Tas.) -- Photographs.

Port Arthur (Tas.) -- Photographs.

Photographs.

Photograph albums.