COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL023273tr
Reference Number:
JA/33/1/1
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
At the Severns' home
Alternative Image Title:
Jevons album
Series Title:
Photographs, portraits and related items
Parent Work Title:
Album 'commenced Nov. 26th 1857'
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Australian photographs taken or collected by William Stanley Jevons
Creator:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role:
Photographer
Date Created:
1858-02-14
Page/Sheet:
Print 47-53
Image Sequence Number:
047
Description:
Seven photographs taken at the home of Henry Severn. Print 47: F.S. (Frances [Fanny] Severn); Print 48: Aloe; Print 49: F.S. (Frances [Fanny] Severn); Print 50: Taken at H.A. Severn's house Neutral Bay; Print 51: H.A.S. (Henry Augustus Severn); Print 52: Norfolk Pine, Oleander Tree etc; Print 53: F.S. (Frances [Fanny] Severn). The photographs are in a collection of photographs of Australia, taken or compiled by William Stanley Jevons during the 1850s. Between 1854-1859 Jevons was employed as assayer at the Sydney mint and also carried out detailed social surveys of the city's slums. Henry Severn worked with Jevons at the mint.
Subject:
Botany
Subject:
Trees
Subject:
Natural History
Category of Material:
Archives
Sub-Category:
Analogue photography
Sub-Category:
Portraits
Support:
Paper
Creation Site:
Australia: New South Wales: Sydney
Time Period Covered:
19th Century CE
Places Covered:
Australia: New South Wales: Sydney
People Covered:
Severn, Henry Augustus, 1833-1883
People Covered:
Severn, Frances, nee Allan, 1838-?
People Covered:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Item Height:
Print 47: 86 mm
Item Height:
Print 48: 85 mm
Item Height:
Print 49: 86 mm
Item Height:
Print 50: 82 mm
Item Height:
Print 51: 78 mm
Item Height:
Print 52: 86 mm
Item Height:
Print 53: 78 mm
Item Width:
Print 50: 168 mm
Item Width:
Print 51: 53 mm
Item Width:
Print 52: 66 mm
Item Width:
Print 53: 52 mm
Item Width:
Print 47: 52 mm
Item Width:
Print 48: 65 mm
Item Width:
Print 49: 48 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
References:
P. McNiven, `Handlist of the Jevons Archives in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester', Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, vol. 66 (1983-4), pp. 213-55
Notes:
Prints 48 and 52 appear in the album JA 33/1/1 as 86 and 87 respectively
Multi Page Number:
75
Image Creation Technique:
Scanned from colour transparency by Gten, January 2006
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2006-02
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
At the Severns' home
