Collection of portraits and coastal sceneries [picture] / Charles Bennett

Bib ID:
1916250
Format:
Picture
Author:
Bennett, Charles Harper, 1840-1927
Online Version:
National Library of Australia digitised item. PIC Drawer PM 6389-6400 #PIC/P742/1-3; 5-13 copy
Description:
  • ca. 1878-ca. 1912
  • 51 photographs : b&w ; 44 x 50.5 cm., or smaller.
  • 19 negatives : b&w, glass : 8.1 x 8.1 cm.
Series:
Keast Burke collection on the history of photography.
Summary:

Collection includes family portraits and a self-portrait. Coastal views in England and New Zealand. Views around Sutherland, N.S.W. and Watson's Bay, family groups and scenery. Experimental prints, montages, carbon prints, telephotography, prints on glass, lantern slides and some glass negatives. Most are identified on reverse or on mount.

Biography/History:

Charles Bennett was an amateur photographer who invented a high-speed dry-plate emulsion for photographic printing in 1878. He and his family left England in 1894 and after some time in New Zealand settled in Sydney at Watsons Bay.

Notes:
  • Title devised by cataloguer.
  • Part of: Keast Burke collection on the history of photography.
  • PIC Drawer PM 6389-6400 #PIC/P742/1-3; 5-13 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-141547584
Subject:
Related Records:
three-level-child

This is part of the Keast Burke collection on the history of photography.
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This collection contains 33 records.

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