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85/1286-517 Glass plate negative, full plate, 'Cricket Grounds, 1895', unattributed studio, Sydney, Australia, c. 1880-1923. Click to enlarge.

'Cricket Grounds, 1895' plate negative from the Tyrrell Collection

This photographic negative was taken by an un-attributed photographer between the late nineteenth century and 1935 and is part of a larger collection of 7,900 negatives once owned by Sydney bookseller, James Tyrrell.

Included in this section of the collection is a wide variety of subject matter including Sydney Streets, New South Wales landscapes, World War I portraits and images of the Harbour Bridge from the early 1930s. While many of these images remain un-attributed at present it is …

Summary

Object No.

85/1286-517

Object Statement

Glass plate negative, full plate, 'Cricket Grounds, 1895', unattributed studio, Sydney, Australia, c. 1880-1923

Physical Description

Glass negative, full plate, 'Cricket Grounds, 1895', unattributed studio, Sydney, Australia, c. 1880-1923.

Silver gelatin dry plate glass negative in landscape format. The Tyrrell Collection Inventory records the above caption but does not attribute the negative to a studio.



67A/39 Tyrrell Inventory Number, no studio number.

Dimensions

Width

215 mm

Cite this Object

Harvard

'Cricket Grounds, 1895' plate negative from the Tyrrell Collection 2022, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, accessed 27 March 2023, <https://ma.as/32257>

Wikipedia

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