Janus: Watson's Queensland album of photographic scenery

RCS contains:
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Y3084A	Photographs of New Guinea
Y3084B	Three photographs of Papua
Y3084C	Enlarged photographs of unknown New Guinea
Y3084D	Capt. A. Liston Blyth, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I., F.R.C.I., Resident Magistrate, Delta Division Papua and Native Constabulary
Y3084E	2 photographs taken at the opening of the second House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea
Y3085A	Watson's Queensland album of photographic scenery
Y3085B	Watson's Queensland album of photographic scenery, second series
Y3085C	Brisbane illustrated: A series of twelve views of some of the principal public buildings and scenery of the city
Y3085D	Warwick
Y3085E	Photographic views: Queensland
Y3085F	State schools and orphanages, Queensland
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Watson's Queensland album of photographic scenery

Title	Watson's Queensland album of photographic scenery
Reference	GBR/0115/Y3085A
Creator	John Watson and Co
Covering Dates	1873
Extent and Medium	10 images
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library

Content and context

John Watson was a commercial photographer. He was active in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, from 1855 to circa 1875. Watson had studios in: Edward Street, North Brisbane 1855 (this was a branch of Glaisters, Sydney); Queen Street, Brisbane, 1862-1875; Stanley Street, South Brisbane 1874.

A commercial album containing ten mounted prints mainly 205 x 150 mm, with printed title page and captions. Published by Watson and Co., Queen Street, Brisbane. Photographed by John Watson.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Watson's Queensland album of photographic scenery, Y3085A

Further information

Indexed

This item level description was entered by MJC and NE using information from the original typescript catalogue.

This collection is available on microfiche: Australasia, fiche number 17.

Index Terms

RCS/Y3085A contains:

View in Botanic Gardens, Brisbane. 82 x 82 mm. A view across the Lily Lagoon in the gardens, with the Parliament Houses in the background. Mounted on the title page.

1873

Geddes Ferry, Gympie Road. 205 x 150 mm. A river scene among woods, with a ferry for carts and wagons, to be pulled across by ropes attached to each bank.

1873

Fig tree and native vine on the Logan River. 205 x 150 mm. The vine curls up the trunk of this 75 ft fig tree, set in a sugar cane plantation, while at the base of the tree stand four figures, with three more figures at various points on the tree itself. The vine appears to be well over a foot in diameter.

1873

View on the Caboolture. 205 x 150 mm. A landscape view of the river and bush at Caboolture, 30 miles north of Brisbane.

1873

Cultivation on the Logan. 205 x 150 mm. A general view of fenced off cropland, with the river Logan in the background and 3 European figures with dog standing by the fence.

1873

Raff's sugar plantation, Morayfield. 205 x 150 mm. View showing sugar plantation on right and sheds, still in the process of being built, on the left, with the river in the background. The picture has been taken from the roof of one of the sheds (which can be seen at bottom of picture), and this gives an aerial sense of perspective. The date of this picture is at the height of the expansion of the sugar industry in Queensland, sugar being first manufactured near the Hastings River in 1823.

1873

Brisbane River, Billimba Reach. 205 x 150 mm. A view towards the river, taken from the garden of a private residence.

1873

Bridging the Caboolture. 205 x 150 mm. The picture shows the early stages of building a wooden bridge with the main struts and the larger horizontal supports in place. With two figures on the bridge, and three lying on the grass in the foreground.

1873

Hustin's Ferry, Logan River. 390 x 133 mm. A panoramic view of a curve in the river taken from a garden by the riverside, with the ferry carrying a horse and wagon in the middle distance. The signs of ground clearing, and the fairly untrained nature of the garden, would make it seem probable that this was an area newly settled in 1873.

1873

Brisbane from the Bowen Terrace. 390 x 133 mm. A panoramic view looking over a curve in the river, showing mainly residential houses. There is some evidence of industrial growth with two factories visible, and merchant ships moored along the river on the farther bank. The Parliament House can be seen, left of centre, in the distance.

1873