Detail View: Rylands Collection: Processing at the Mint

Image Number: 
JRL023300tr
Reference Number: 
JA/33/1/1
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Processing at the Mint
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: 
[date not identified]
Page/Sheet: 
Print 120-128
Image Sequence Number: 
120
Description: 
Print 120 - Print 128: Nine photographs of processing at the Sydney Royal Mint. 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.
Subject: 
Mints
Category of Material: 
Archives
Sub-Category: 
Analogue photography
Support: 
Paper
Creation Site: 
Australia: New South Wales: Sydney
Time Period Covered: 
19th Century CE
Places Covered: 
Australia: New South Wales: Sydney
People Covered: 
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Item Height: 
Print 120: 56 mm
Item Height: 
Print 121: 61 mm
Item Height: 
Print 122: 50 mm
Item Height: 
Print 123: 54 mm
Item Height: 
Print 124: 56 mm
Item Height: 
Print 125: 62 mm
Item Height: 
Print 126: 52 mm
Item Height: 
Print 127: 30 mm
Item Height: 
Print 128: 42 mm
Item Width: 
Print 120: 78 mm
Item Width: 
Print 121: 81 mm
Item Width: 
Print 122: 71 mm
Item Width: 
Print 123: 80 mm
Item Width: 
Print 124: 75 mm
Item Width: 
Print 125: 81 mm
Item Width: 
Print 126: 70 mm
Item Width: 
Print 127: 56 mm
Item Width: 
Print 128: 28 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: 
Creative Commons License
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
Multi Page Number: 
215
Image Creation Technique: 
Scanned from colour transparency by Gten, January 2006
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2006-02
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB