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E.W. Searle collection of photographs [picture]
Bib ID 3044581
Format PicturePicture, OnlineOnline
Author
Searle, E. W. (Edward William) 1887-1955
 
Online Versions
Description between ca. 1900 and ca. 1955 
ca. 2000 photographs : b&w; 40.5 x 50.9 cm, or smaller. 
253 negatives : nitrate ; 9x 14.1 cm. and less. 
28 slides : b&w ; 7.3 x 8.3 cm. 
Summary

Photographs of Sydney scenery, city buildings, country and bush scenes in N.S.W., mining, aviation, Northern Territory and Queensland, Tasmania, Melbourne, Canberra, Aborigines, portraits, Sydney Harbour Bridge and aerial photography and surveys. Collection includes glass negatives of his father, James Searle, a lantern lecturer, and albums of mounted photographs.

Biography/History

E.W. Searle was a professional photographer associated with the firms Hall & Co. and Grace Bros (Sydney) and J.W. Beattie (Hobart). He photographed an official record of the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Notes

Selected items are also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http:/­/­nla.gov.au/­nla.pic-an11369726

Cited In

Burmester, v. 4.

Has Sub-series

Has subcollection: Tasmanian views, Edward Searle's album of photographs of Australia, Antarctica and the Pacific, 1911-1915

Has subcollection: Official air views of the opening celebrations of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 19 March, 1932

Has subcollection: Album of photographs of N.S.W. flora, mainly Sydney area

Has subcollection: Aerial photographs of Sydney

Has subcollection: Australia beautiful, New South Wales

Has subcollection: Aerial views of Sydney and surroundings

Has subcollection: Album of photographs of Aboriginal rock carvings at sites near Sydney

Has subcollection: Aerial photographs of Sydney Harbour Bridge and other views

Has subcollection: [Early aircraft, Sydney]

Has subcollection: Historic buildings and memorials, New South Wales

Has subcollection: Ships, historic buildings and memorials, New South Wales

Subjects Aeronautics - Australia - Photographs.  |  Aerial photography - New South Wales - Photographs.  |  Landscape - Australia - Photographs.  |  Australia - Photographs.
Other authors/contributors Searle, James, photographer

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