Detail View: Rylands Collection: Sydney Royal Mint
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Image Number:
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JRL022454tr
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Reference Number:
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JA/33/1/1
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Sydney Royal Mint
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Alternative Image Title:
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Jevons album
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Series Title:
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Photographs, portraits and related items
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Parent Work Title:
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Album 'commenced Nov. 26th 1857'
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Australian photographs taken or collected by William Stanley Jevons
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Creator:
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Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
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Creator Role:
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Photographer
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Date Created:
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1858-03-08
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Page/Sheet:
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Print 54
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Image Sequence Number:
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054
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Description:
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Print 54: Coining department of the S.R. Mint (Sydney Royal Mint) showing the Rolling mills, Tapering Machine, Drag bench, Cutting-Out Presses etc. The photograph is 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.
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Subject:
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Mints
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Category of Material:
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Archives
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Sub-Category:
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Analogue photography
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Support:
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Paper
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Creation Site:
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Australia: New South Wales: Sydney
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Time Period Covered:
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19th Century CE
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Places Covered:
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Australia: New South Wales: Sydney
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People Covered:
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Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
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Item Height:
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138 mm
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Item Width:
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180 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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References:
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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
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Multi Page Number:
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80
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Image Creation Technique:
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Scanned from colour transparency by Gten, January 2006
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2006-02
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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