Foreword -- Introduction. A land transformed -- The roaming eye: the camera in late 19th century Australia -- City splendid: grand statements of wealth, affluence and confidence -- Fat of the land: the wealth that fuelled a nation -- Living and partly living: the haves and the have-nots -- Ties that bind: the celebration of a nation
Summary
The output of the two largest photographic studio's in Australia in the late 19th century were bought & placed in storage. It became known as the Tyrell Collection. Largely unseen ever-since it is now stored at the Powerhouse museum and has been made available to Australian Geographic
Analysis
Australian
Notes
[Almost all photographs are from The Tyrrell Collection which consists of 7903 glass plate negatives from the studios of Charles Kerry (1857-1928) and Henry King (1855-1923) who had two of Sydney's principal photographic studios in the late 1800s and early 1900s]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 204) and index