Cover image for [Excursion to Lake St. Clair February 1863 album]
Title:
[Excursion to Lake St. Clair February 1863 album] / written and photographed by Morton Allport.
Production:
[Hobart, Tasmania] : Morton Allport, 1863.
Manufacture:
12 Macquarie Street, Hobart Town : J. Walch & Sons.
Physical description:
1 album, 23 pages, 48 photographic prints (24 stereographs) : albumen silver stereographs ; 245 x 204 mm.

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Binding:
Embossed brown covers with gold tooled borders. J. Walch & Sons trademark label with Allport bookplate on inside front cover.
Medium:
paper ink double sided.
Format:
manuscript

photograph

album

image (online)
Notes:
All photographic prints are stereographs but not mounted on cards for viewing. Titles taken from inscribed text under each photo.

DIGITIZED VERSION of all photographs and Morton Allport's letter available below.

Exhibited: 'Worth taking and keeping' Aug. 1996-May 1997, Allport Library
Access conditions:
Restricted: not available for general access.
Partial contents:
Stereographs: Source of the Derwent [1] -- First rapid on the Derwent [2] -- Lower Basin, Lake St. Clair [3] -- 'Boviak Beach' [4]-- John Buckland on the look out [5] -- Camp, Lake St. Clair [6] -- Breakfast's ready [7] and Ornithorynchus Paradoxus Glen (Lake St. Clair) [8] -- Dining room (Lake St. Clair) [9] -- On the west shore of Lake St. Clair [10] -- A noon-day siesta (Lake St. Clair) [11] -- Mount Ida (Lake St. Clair) [12] -- Mount Byron and The Nine Mountains (Lake St. Clair) [13] -- Mount Hugel (Lake St. Clair) [14] -- Diggers Camp (Mount Arrowsmith) [15 and 16] -- Looking south west from Mount Arrowsmith [17] -- Looking south from Mount Arrowsmith [18] -- Looking westward from Mt Arrowsmith [19] -- Mount Gell (Eldon Range to the extreme left) [20] -- Mount Gell [21] -- The valley of the Lodden [22] -- The Frenchman's Cap [23] -- Looking eastward from Mount Arrowsmith (Digger's Camp in the middle distance, Mount Charles and the Wentworth Hills in the distance) [24]
Summary:
Album comprises one letter and twenty-four albumen silver stereographs of the Lake St Clair area by Morton Allport collected together in the album and sent to his brother Curzon in March 1863.
Alternate Title:
Title from text in letter: Trip to Lake St. Clair

Excursion to Lake St. Clair February 1863 (Online)
Record ID:
SD_ILS:690774