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Australia (Vols. 1-7)

Physical Description: 7 volumes
Volume 1

Australia

Physical Description: 132 photographs.

Includes views of Sydney, Brisbane, Newcastle, Lord and Lady Carrington, New South Wales and the Blue Mountains, and the Hawkesbury River.
Volume spine title: Australia : Sydney. General Post Office. Government House. Town Hall. University. Supreme Court. Parliament Buildings. Botanic Gardens. Various Views of the Bay, Etc.
Photographers: Kerry & Jones.
Volume 2

Australia 1887 July 21-22.

Physical Description: 141 photographs.

Volume spine title: Australia : Tenterfield. Severn Railway Bridge. Scenes in Illawarra and various pictures illustrative of colonial life.
Photographers: Kerry & Jones; many unidentified.
Volume 3

Australia 1887 June-July.

Physical Description: 130 photographs.

Volume spine title: Australia : Ballarat. Botanic Gardens. Sturt Street. Bridge Street. Band & Albion Claim, etc. Melbourne. Collins Street. The Treasury. Government House. Views near Melbourne, etc.
Photographers: Chuck Photo; Foster & Martin.
Volume 4

Australia 1887 July-August.

Physical Description: 116 photographs.

Volume spine title: Australia : Queensland : Brisbane. St. Stephen's. Cathedral. Government House. Creek Street. Various views of Herbert River. Corktown. Mac Ivor Station. Blacks, Canoes, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 5

Australia

Physical Description: 57 photographs.

Volume spine title: Australia : Sydney. Government House. Botanic Garden. Museum. Town Hall. Various views of Harbour Falls of Katoomba. Valley of the Grose. Fitzroy Falls, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 6

Australia

Physical Description: 98 photographs.

Includes aborigines, mining and other kinds of work, various views.
Volume spine title: Australia : Gippsland. Views of Roads & Forests. Settler's Home, etc. Erskine Falls. Ovens River. Scenes on the Watt, etc.
Photographers: Chuck Photo; George Bayliss, Sydney; some unidentified.
Volume 7

Australia

Physical Description: 116 photographs.

Volume spine title: Australia : Adelaide. Government Offices. Views on the A. & M. Railway. Parkside Asylum. King William Street. Zoological Gardens. Post Office. Court House. Marble Hill, etc.
Photographers: Washbourne Photo; some unidentified.
 

Asia (Vols. 8-14)

Physical Description: 7 volumes
Volume 8

Formosa, Hong Kong, Macao, and Japan. approximately 1874 and undated.

Physical Description: 100 photographs.

Various views of Formosa and Hong Kong from approximately 1874, and of Macao and Japan that are undated. Includes views of the Pacific Mail Co. S.S. Alaska blown ashore after the typhoon in Aberdeen (Hong Kong), as well as views showing preparations to float her after the typhoon, September 1874.
Volume spine title: China : Chin Chew. Formosa. Tsui-Sia. Tamsui. Yow-Mah-Tee. Macao. Lapa. Hock-Sing-Toong.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 9

China

Physical Description: 80 photographs.

Volume spine title: China : Foochow. Swatow. Amoy. Koolansoo Island. Yow-Mah-Tee. Chin-Chew, etc.
Photographers: A. Fong; most unidentified.
Volume 10

Japan

Physical Description: 80 photographs.

Various views around Tokyo.
Volume spine title: Japan : Views near Tokio : Uyeno. Kameido. Yanaka. Muko-O-Jima. Yanagishima. Komagome. Kanasugi. Photographs of natives.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 11

Japan

Physical Description: 82 photographs.

Various views of Tokyo, Kobe, Kyoto, and Yokohama. Also includes 4 views of Siam.
Volume spine title: Japan : Yokohama. Uyeno. Atajo. Kobe. Otsu. Karasaki. Kamogawa. Kiyomizu.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 12

India

Physical Description: 106 photographs.

Various views around India and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
Volume spine title: India : Ceylon. Burmah, etc.
Photographers: Deen Dayal; Cazabon; some unidentified.
Volume 13

Burma

Physical Description: 94 photographs.

Various views around Rangoon and views of Burmese individuals. Also some views of India.
Volume spine title: India : Burmah. Rangoon. Types of Burmese. Salween River. Kohon Caves. Andaman Isles. Mandalay. Views of streets, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 14

India and Ceylon.

Physical Description: 97 photographs.

Volume spine title: India : Sukkar. Forest Scenes in the Himalayas. Shikarpur. Monlmein. Trinco. Shrines, etc. in Rangoon.
Photographers: Unidentified
 

Oceania and Pacific Islands (Vols. 15-17)

Physical Description: 3 volumes
Volume 15

Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, New Guinea, New Zealand.

Physical Description: 97 photographs.

Volume spine title: Samoa & Figi : Wanaui River. Taumaranui. Te-Kumi. King George of Tonga. Tongatabu. Taviuni. Levuka. Suva. Tonga, etc.
Photographers: Burton Bros., Dunedin; Bell & Langford; some unidentified.
Volume 16

Hawaii. 1867-1878, undated.

Physical Description: 89 photographs.

The Hawaii photographs are by Henry Chase between 1868 and 1878.
Volume spine title: Sandwich Islands : Honolulu. Hawaii. Types of natives. Nuanu Valley. Kapina Falls. Kaika. Kilauea.
Photographers: Henry Chase.
Volume 17

Hawaii, Sandwich Islands, and Easter Island.

Physical Description: 123 photographs.

Volume spine title: Juan Fernandez. Hawaii, etc. : Robinson Crusoe's Cave. Selkirk's Memorial. Harpe Island. Anaa. Papeete. Matea. Kalakoa Bay, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
 

Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean Islands (Vols. 18-19)

Physical Description: 2 volumes
Volume 18

Bermuda and Trinidad.

Physical Description: 80 photographs.

Volume spine title: Bermuda, Trinidad, etc. : Hamilton. St. George's Government House. Ireland Island. Camber. Santa Cruz, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 19

Trinidad, Bermuda, and Madeira.

Physical Description: 73 photographs.

Volume spine title: Madeira. West Indies : Jamaica. St. Lucia. St. Vincent. George Town. Trinidad. Spanish Town.
Photographers: Unidentified
 

North America (Vols. 20-21)

Physical Description: 2 volumes
Volume 20

North America and Canada.

Physical Description: 25 photographs.

Volume spine title: America : Newfoundland St. Johns, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 21

Canada and the Eastern United States

Physical Description: 336 photographs.

Volume spine title: United States & Canada : Hunting & Camping Scenes. Boston. New York. Newport. West Point. Washington. Annapolis. Baltimore. Chicago.
Photographers: Alexander Henderson; James Cotter; William Notman; Charles Horetzky; many unidentified.
 

Africa (Vols. 22-34)

Physical Description: 13 volumes
Volume 22

South Africa.

Physical Description: 27 photographs.

Various views around the town and diamond mines of Kimberley.
Volume spine title: South Africa & Cape of Good Hope : Government Wine Farm. Great Constantia. Kimberley. Kimb:. Mine. Views on Vaal River. Wool Market, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 23

Africa: Mauritus.

Physical Description: 38 photographs.

Volume spine title: Mauritus : St. George's. Port Louis. Government House. The Harbour. Mariner's Church. Landing Pier. Farquhar Street. Interior of Mosque. Types of Mauritius, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 24

Madeira and unidentified.

Physical Description: 131 photographs.

Volume spine title: Madeira : Funchal. Campanaria. Rabacal. English Cemetery at Funchal. Penha D'Aguia. Caniçal, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 25

North Africa: Algiers.

Physical Description: 15 photographs.

Volume spine title: Algeria
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 26

North Africa: Algiers.

Physical Description: 40 photographs.

Volume spine title: Algeria
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 27

North Africa: Algiers.

Physical Description: 65 photographs.

Volume spine title: Algiers : Portraits. Types of Natives.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 28

Egypt: Cairo.

Physical Description: 59 photographs.

Volume spine title: Egypt : Cairo : Tomb of Ibrahim Pacha & Imam-Chafey. Tom of the Mameluke's. Mosque of Mohamet-Ali. The Citadel. Mosque of Sultan Hassan. Mosque of Amron. Palace of Ismail Pacha, etc.
Photographers: Pascal Sebah; William Hammerschmidt.
Volume 29

Egypt.

Physical Description: 59 photographs.

Many photographs of museum pieces from ancient Egypt.
Volume spine title: Egypt : Museum in Alexandra : Statues Found at Laguarah. Egyptian Heads. Sacred Images. Necklaces found on mummies. Ancient earthenware. Ancient Jewels, etc.
Photographers: E. Bechard; Pascal Sebah.
Volume 30

Egypt: Cairo.

Physical Description: 72 photographs.

Various views of the city, people, and surrounding areas.
Volume spine title: Egypt : Native costumes. Egyptian houses. Native merchants. Traveling in the desert.
Photographers: E. Bechard; Pascal Sebah.
Volume 31

Egypt: Alexandria.

Physical Description: 103 photographs.

Various views of the city of Alexandria and the effects of the British bombardment of the city in 1882.
Volume spine title: Egypt : Alexandra with views after the bombardments : streets of the consuls. New Hotel. Column of Pompei. Cleopatra's needle. Fort Ada. House of Arabi Pacha. Mosque of Chiek Migaud. Ras-El-Tin. Fort Pharos.
Photographers: Pascal Sebah; E. Bechard; L. Fiorillo.
Volume 32

Egypt.

Physical Description: 88 photographs.

Various views of indigenous people, often in native dress performing daily tasks. Also some views of Cairo and some panoramas.
Volume spine title: Egypt : Cairo : Studies of Natives. Mosque of Saladin. Gardens of Esbekieh. Kiosque of Choubra. Palace of Gezyret. Cemetery of Tourab. Various streets in Cairo.
Photographers: Pascal Sebah, E. Bechard.
Volume 33

Egypt.

Physical Description: 70 photographs.

Images of a boat trip down the Nile with various views of sights along the way, as well as views of pyramids and temples. The last five photographs are of Syria.
Volume spine title: Egypt : Ruins, Pyramids & Monuments. : Thebes. Zakarah. Sphynx & Temple of Chafra. Cheops. The Sphynx Armachis. Temple Debod. Temple of Kom-Ombo, etc.
Photographers: Pascal Sebah; W. Hammerschmidt; E. Bechard; Dumas.
Volume 34

Egypt.

Physical Description: 68 photographs.

Views of Karnak, Thebes, Heliopolis, and various temples.
Volume spine title: Egypt : Ruins, Pyramids & Monuments. : Temple of Hathor. Obelisk of Ramses II. Temple of Karnak. Temple of Thebes. Statue of Memnon. Temple of Isis. Temple of Hypaethral, etc.
Photographers: Pascal Sebah.
 

Europe (Vols. 35-63)

Physical Description: 29 volumes
Volume 35

Greece, Corfu, and Cyprus.

Physical Description: 70 photographs.

Various views of people in native dress, landscapes, and buildings.
Volume spine title: Greece & Cyprus : Pictures of natives, ruins, excavations, etc. Cape Colonna. Kalamitza Island. Corfu. Limassol. Larnaka. Tamagusta. Skala.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 36

Cyprus.

Physical Description: 116 photographs.

Various views of ancient pottery and shards.
Volume spine title: Cyprus Collection
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 37

Italy.

Physical Description: 81 photographs.

Views of Rome, Florence, and Naples.
Volume spine title: Italy : Rome and Naples : Piazza Dante. Teatro S. Carlo. Palazza Reale. Church of St. Francis. Museum of Naples. Cascades of Caserta.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 38

Italy.

Physical Description: 68 photographs.

Views of Naples, indigenous peoples and their crafts, ancient temples, Mount Vesuvius, and landscapes.
Volume spine title: Italy : Naples, Pesto, Vesuvio, Ischia. Lacco. Island of Nisida. Bayu.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 39

Italy.

Physical Description: 64 photographs.

Views of Venice, indigenous peoples and their crafts, Italian landscapes, Verona, Bologna, and Turin.
Volume spine title: Italy : Venice. Florence. Turin, etc.
Photographers: Carlo Ponti; Graziani.
Volume 40

Italy.

Physical Description: 68 photographs.

Views along the Amalfi coast, Lugano, Locarno, and Lake Maggiore.
Volume spine title: Italy : Salerno. Amalfi. St. Salvatore Sorrento. Castellamara. Lugano. Lago Maggiore. Locarno.
Photographers: G. Sommer.
Volume 41

Italy.

Physical Description: 40 photographs.

Views of Florence and Pisa.
Volume spine title: Italy : Florence. Pisa. Sicily, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 42

Italy.

Physical Description: 63 photographs.

Views of the Italian landscape, Capri, and Roman ruins.
Volume spine title: Italy : Lorcano. Arona. Laveno. Capri. Morreale.
Photographers: G. Sommer; Tagliarini; A. Godard.
Volume 43

Italy.

Physical Description: 49 photographs.

Views of paintings and frescos in Siena and views of Bologna.
Volume spine title: Italy : Siena. Bologna. Orvieto, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 44

Italy.

Physical Description: 78 photographs.

Architectural views of Rome and views of Perugia.
Volume spine title: Italy : Rome : Arch of Constantine. Villa Medici. The Coliseum. St. Peters. Arch of Septimus. Sibyls Temple. Etruscan Gateway. Bridge at Narni, etc.
Photographers: R. MacPherson.
Volume 45

Italy.

Physical Description: 79 photographs.

Pompeii, Vesuvius, and Naples.
Volume spine title: Italy : Vesuvius. Ruins of ancient cities. Views of volcanic mountains. Observatory, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 46

Italy.

Physical Description: 41 photographs.

Views and photographs of art works in Milan, and photographs of various art works in Rome and Pompeii.
Volume spine title: Italy : Milan, Rome, Naples, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 47

Gibraltar, Spain, and Tangiers.

Physical Description: 108 photographs.

Volume spine title: Gibraltar & Tangiers
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 48

Malta

Physical Description: 51 photographs.

Various views of the English military installations and the town of Malta.
Volume spine title: Malta : St. Michael's Bastion. Verdale Barracks. Parade Grounds, Florian. Santa Maria Cemetery. Porta Reale. The Upper Barracca Strada Reale. Strada Forni. Auberge de Castille. General views of Valetta, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 49

Malta 1882 April.

Physical Description: 47 photographs.

Various views of the English military installations and buildings in Malta.
Volume spine title: Malta : Various views from Battery. Victoria Gate. Strado Seminaris. Railway Tunnel, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 50

France, Spain, Gibraltar, Italy, Southern England, and Normandy.

Physical Description: 122 photographs.

Volume spine title: Mediterranean in France 1889-90
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 51

Malta, Sicily, France, and Monaco.

Physical Description: 83 photographs.

Six views by Graziani.
Volume spine title: Mediterranean Coasts : South of France. The Riviera. Italy earthquake at Nice. Railway accident at Nice.
Photographers: Graziani; most unidentified.
Volume 52

Portugal.

Physical Description: 47 photographs.

Volume spine title: Portugal : Lisbon. Cintra. Belem. Mountserrat. Oporto. Visen.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 53

Spain

Physical Description: 69 photographs.

Volume spine title: Spain : Madrid. Fountains of the Tritones. Toledo. Alcazar at Toledo. Bridge of Alcantara. Granada. Seville. Cadiz, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 54

France and Spain.

Physical Description: 82 photographs.

Volume spine title: France : Orleans. Tours. Amiens. Nismes. Arles. Paris. Fontainbleau. Versailles.
Photographers: Baldus; E. Mage; Bisson Freres.
Volume 55

Tenerife and the Azores.

Physical Description: 143 photographs.

Volume spine title: Teneriffe & The Azores : Santa Cruz. Laguna. Orotava. Pico de Teide. Natives of Azores, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 56

Holland.

Physical Description: 44 photographs.

Various landscape views and photographs of art works.
Volume spine title: Belgium & Holland.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 57

Scotland, Ireland, Southwest England, Scilly Isles.

Physical Description: 311 photographs.

Volume spine title: England, Scotland and Ireland : Dumblane. Brechin. Bridge of Allan. Edinburgh. Holyrood. Abbotsford. Clifton Bridge. Queenstown. Glengariff. Scilly. Tresco Abbey, etc.
Photographers: George Washington Wilson; Notman; J. Valentine; Gibson.; (Penzance).
Volume 58

Switzerland or the Italian Alps (?)

Physical Description: 47 photographs.

Various views of unidentified places.
Volume spine title: [no spine label]
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 59

Austria and parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Physical Description: 86 photographs.

Volume spine title: Austria & Galicia : Saltzburg. Vienna. Trieste. Austro-Hungary Lemberg Railway.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 60

Denmark, Sweden, Northern Germany, Helgoland, and the Rhine Valley.

Physical Description: 111 photographs.

1 photograph by C. Rose of Denmark.
Volume spine title: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, & Heligoland : Copenhagen. Stockholm. Upsala. Gothland. Rosenburg. Hamburg. Lübeck. Brunswick. Etc.
Photographers: C. Rose; most unidentified.
Volume 61

Switzerland and Austria.

Physical Description: 68 photographs.

Various views from railroad tours.
Volume spine title: Switzerland & St. Gothard. Lucerne. The Rigi. Axen. Andermatt. Göschenen. Altdorf.
Photographers: G. Sommer
Volume 62

Turkey.

Physical Description: 118 photographs.

Various views of Constantinople and Smyrna.
Volume spine title: Turkey : Stamboul. Scutari. Topani. The Bosphorus. Marmora. Constantinople. Cherignan.
Photographers: Pascal Sebah; most unidentified.
Volume 63

Russia.

Physical Description: 101 photographs.

Various views of Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as a set of color carte-de-visite sized lithographs of Russian characters.
Volume spine title: Russia
Photographers: Scherer & Marholz; some unidentified.
 

Colonel Stuart Wortley seascape photographs (Vol. 64)

Physical Description: 1 volume

Biographical Note on Colonel Stuart Wortley

English photographer Colonel Henry Stuart Wortley (1832-1890) took up photography in the early 1850s and first exhibited images in 1862, gaining a reputation for his artistic seascapes, which used multiple negative exposures to achieve evocative the sky and cloud formations. Wortley became one of Britain's most well-known photographers and was elected a member of the Photographic Society of London. Wortley founded the short-lived United Association of Photography in 1864 and the Uranium Dry Plate Company in 1874. From 1875 until 1889, Wortley worked at Patent Museum (later the South Kensington Museum). In 1882, Wortley published some of his photographs in Tahiti: a series of photographs taken by Colonel Stuart-Wortley with letterpress by Lady Brassey. Wortley died on April 30, 1890.
Volume 64

Seascapes, various locations. approximately 1861-approximately 1879

Physical Description: 27 photographs.

Views of seascapes. For more information see Natural Variations: Photographs by Colonel Stuart Wortley, a catalog written by Katherine DiGiulio for the Wortley exhibition in the Huntington Art Gallery, May 1994.
Volume spine title: Landscapes, etc. : Photographed by Colonel Stuart Worthley.
Photographers: Colonel Stuart Wortley
 

Artwork (Vols. 65-67)

Physical Description: 3 volumes
Volume 65

Sculpture.

Physical Description: 28 photographs.

Various photographs of sculptures, including some from the Louvre.
Volume spine title: Masterpieces of Sculpture
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 66

Paintings and art works from French art galleries.

Physical Description: 13 photographs.

Consists of lithographs and reproductions of French paintings.
Volume spine title: Pictures from the French Galleries.
Photographers: E. Baldus; Voland; Bingham; Gustave Le Gray; some photographs published Goupil et Cie.
Volume 67

Pictures from the Masters.

Physical Description: 25 photographs.

Consists of photographic reproductions of mezzotints, steel engravings, and oil paintings from Italy and Spain.
Volume spine title: Pictures from the Masters : Il Salvatore in Gloria. San Barbara Present. Al Tempio. Madonna E Santi. Miracols di S. Marco, etc.
Photographers: Carlo Ponti; Venezia, Italy; and unidentified Spanish photographer.
 

"The Sunbeam" photographs (Vols. 68-70)

Physical Description: 3 volumes
Volume 68

Landscapes, etc.

Physical Description: 43 photographs.

Many views of Royal Navy ships at unidentified locations, with many cyanotypes. Some images of coastlines, and stone houses and cottages.
Volume spine title: "Sunbeam" : Landscapes and various pictures taken from "Sunbeam."
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 69

Amateur photographs taken during a voyage.

Physical Description: 222 photographs.

10.5 x 16 cm images consisting of views of unidentified landscapes, views from the yacht Sunbeam, chiefly of coastlines, foreign countries, and photographs of Brassey family friends. Many of the images are duplicates printed from the same negatives but on different photographic papers.
Volume spine title: "Sunbeam" : Amateur photographs taken during voyage.
Photographers: Unidentified.
Volume 70

Sunbeam photographs.

Physical Description: 90 photographs.

Photographs depicting life on the yacht Sunbeam, including room interiors, and family, friends, and animals onboard, as well as other boats and ships.
Volume spine title: "Sunbeam" : Various groups. Views & photographs of yachts, etc.
Photographers: West & Son; unidentified.
Collection Contents
Container List
Australia (Vols. 1-7)
Asia (Vols. 8-14)
Oceania and Pacific Islands (Vols. 15-17)
Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean Islands (Vols. 18-19)
North America (Vols. 20-21)
Africa (Vols. 22-34)
Europe (Vols. 35-63)
Colonel Stuart Wortley seascape photographs (Vol. 64)
Artwork (Vols. 65-67)
"The Sunbeam" photographs (Vols. 68-70)
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