Janus: Photographs of the National Park, 1888

RCS contains:
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Y3086A	The Burning of the Garden Palace, 1882
Y3086B	Photographs of the Dalwood Vineyards, near Branxton, New South Wales, Australia, 1886
Y3086C	Photographs - New South Wales, circa 1904
Y3086D	Government Railways of New South Wales rolling stock 1885
Y3086F	New South Wales. Photographs of Roads and Bridges. W.C. Bennett M. Inst. C.E., Commissioner and Engineer
Y3086H	Photographs of the National Park, 1888
Y3086I	Cataract Dam and Broughton's Pass Weir
Y3086J	Photographs - New South Wales, circa 1885
Y3086K	New South Wales, 1908
Y3086N	The University of Sydney, New South Wales: The Fisher Library, circa 1915
Y3086O	The University of Sydney
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Photographs of the National Park, 1888

Title	Photographs of the National Park, 1888
Reference	GBR/0115/Y3086H
Creator	Kerry, Charles, 1858-1928, photographer ?
Covering Dates	Mar. 1888 (The introduction is dated March 1888.)
Extent and Medium	32 images in 1 album; The prints are of a high quality and are generally in good condition, although alll are faded to a greater or lesser degree.
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library

Content and context

A commercially produced album containing mounted prints, measuring approximately 275 x 220 mm, with one printed page of introduction and one page of brief printed captions to the photographs. The introduction is by the Government Printing Office.

The photographs are possibly by Charles Kerry of Sydney, and certainly possess enough quality to be his work. Jack Cato states: 'In 1895 Kerry advertised that he would take, free of charge, 'Likenesses of volunteers bound for the Soudan'... At the same time he spent many weeks making records in the National Park for the Government, and on another assignment, etc...' (1955, page unknown). Unfortunately the ambiguity here does not make distinction as to whether 'at the same time' is used chronologically or merely to emphasize the diversity of Kerry's work.

The introduction gives a brief history of the park, which dates back to 1873 when a survey was made of the land for railway purposes. On completion of the survey the government blocked the sale of all adjacent land, amounting to about 36 square miles and in 1879 Sir John Robertson dedicated 18,000 acres as a National Park. The area was increased the following year to 36,300 acres. A few roads were driven through the area, trout and perch were introduced into the streams, and part of the denser forest cleared. The area is now known as the Royal National Park, after the Queen's visit in 1954, and is situated on the south of the Port Hacking river estuary, with frontage onto the ocean.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Photographs of the National Park, 1888, Y3086H

Further information

For further information on Kerry see: Cato, Jack (1955), The story of the camera in Australia, Melbourne : Georgian House.

Some prints also occur in Y3086J.

Indexed

This collection level description was entered by KS using information from the original typescript catalogue.

This collection is available on microfiche: Australasia, fiche numbers 39-41.

Index Terms

Australia

Oceania

Kerry, Charles (1858-1928) photographer

RCS/Y3086H contains:

Cabbage Tree Point, Port Hacking. 275 x 220 mm. A view along the seashore, with a child sitting on a bleached tree lying on the beach.
Fair condition, considerable fading in from edges..

Mr. W.W. Richardson's Cottage, from Cabbage Tree Point, Port Hacking. 275 x 220 mm. A view of the beach, with the cottage among trees on the far side of the bay, and with eroded rocks in the foreground. Three men are facing the camera on the left.
Good condition, apart from fading in from edges..

Pulpit Rock, Cabbage Tree Point, Port Hacking. 275 x 220 mm. A view of the beach, with eroded rock formations in the foreground. Three men are some distance along the beach, one of them sitting on Pulpit Rock, an eroded top-heavy structure some 15 feet high.
Good condition, apart from some fading in from the edges..

'Fountain Cottage' and 'The Fountain', Deer Park, Port Hacking River [i.e. Hacking River]. 275 x 220 mm. Showing a river in the foreground, fed from a spring. The cottage stands on a ledge beyond the river, with three figures posing in front of it. The deer-park was an enclosed, cleared area in the park stocked with deer.
Good condition, apart from some fading in from edges..

Training Wall, Port Hacking River [i.e. Hacking River], Near Swallow Rock. 275 x 220 mm. A view looking along the river from a hillside, with heavily wooded ground all around. The training wall, built to direct the flow and current, can be seen in the river in the middle distance.
Good condition, apart from some fading in from edges..

Training Wall, Port Hacking River [i.e. Hacking River], Below Zig-Zag at Loftus. 275 x 220 mm. A view looking down on the river with the training wall in the foreground.
Fair condition, fading in from edges and slight overall fading..

Port Hacking River [i.e. Hacking River], from the Dam at Audley. 275 x 220 mm. A view of the river, with steep wooded banks, showing part of the dam in the foreground. A small steamboat and a rowing boat are moored in the river.
Good condition, apart from some fading in from edges..

National Park Camp at Audley, above the Dam (Freshwater). 275 x 220 mm. A view of the camp from across the river, showing wooden cabins above the river, a small shed on the river bank and a rowing boat in the river.
Fair condition, apart from fading in from edges and slight overall fading..

Confluence of Kangaroo Creek with Port Hacking River [i.e. Hacking River], at Audley (Freshwater). 275 x 220 mm. A view of the river taken from the Park camp side, with the small shed at the waterside and rowing boats in the foreground.
Good condition, apart from some fading in from edges..

Confluence of Kangaroo Creek with Port Hacking River [i.e. Hacking River], at Audley (Freshwater). 275 x 220 mm. A view of the river taken from the Park camp site.
Good condition, apart from fading in from edges..

Encampment Ground, Loftus Heights. 275 x 220 mm. A view of high, cleared ground, with wooden houses in the distance and some tents nearer the camera. With two figures and a pony and cart. From the album introduction;. 'Part of the high lands have been cleared of the dead timber and undergrowth and all but the most ornamental trees, and a large open space afforded, whereon military encampments and reviews can be held. About 600 acres of the cleared lands have been sown with English grasses'.
Fair condition, fading in from edges, and slight overall fading..

Dam at Loftus Heights. 275 x 220 mm. A view of the small dam, traversed by a dirt road, with cleared ground in the background, and trees in front.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges..

Audley Road. 275 x 220 mm. Showing the unsurfaced road, curving down among the hills, with a pony trap on the road.
Fair condition, with some fading in from edges, and slight overall fading..

Kangaroo Creek (fresh water). 275 x 220 mm. A view looking down into the creek, heavily wooded on either side, and with a rowing boat in the water.
Fair condition, fading in from edges, and some dirt stains..

Port Hacking River [i.e. Hacking River] (fresh water) near the Lower Peach Trees. 275 x 220 mm. A view looking down on to the river, with thickly wooded banks, and two men in a rowing boat on the water.
Fair condition, fading in from edges, and slight overall fading..

Lady Carrington Road, at Karani Brook Bridge. 220 x 275 mm. A view of the wooden bridge, with tall trees on either side, and with a pony trap crossing the bridge.
Good condition, apart from fading in at edges..

Lady Carrington Road, at bend, near Karoga Brook. 275 x 220 mm. Showing the road running along the side of the tree lined river, where a man sits in a rowing boat.
Good condition, apart from fading in from edges..

Lady Carrington Road, Near Bola Creek. 220 x 275 mm. A view of a man standing on the earth road, with thick woods on either side.
Fair condition, fading in from edges and slight overall fading..

Lady Carrington Road, at Bola Creek Bridge. 220 x 275 mm. Showing a man in a pony trap approaching the camera on the earth road, with the bridge behind (obscured by trees) and tall woods on either side.
Good condition, apart from fading in from edges..

Lady Carrington Road, Near Bola Creek Bridge. 220 x 275 mm. A view looking down the earth road, thickly wooded on either side with tall trees.
Good condition, apart from fading in from edges..

Lady Carrington Road, at Tamur Brook Bridge. 220 x 275 mm. A slightly blurred view looking down on to the earth road, with the bridge in the foreground and a pony trap on the road. With thick woods on either side of the road.
Fair condition, fading in from edges, and slight overall fading..

Kangaroo Creek (fresh water). 275 x 220 mm. A view looking down onto the creek, with woods on either side, and a wooded hill in the distance. With two men sitting in a rowing boat on the creek.
Fair condition, fading in from edges and slight overall fading..

The Lower Waterfall (111 feet) close to Waterfall Road. 220 x 275 mm. A view looking down at the top of the waterfall among the woods, where it drops over an overhang. With two men standing at the edge of the cliff.
Good condition, apart from fading in from edges..

The Upper Waterfall (46 feet) close to Waterfall Road. 220 x 275 mm. A view of the waterfall from the pool below.
Good condition apart from slight fading in from edges..

Waterfall Road, near the Waterfalls. 220 x 275 mm. A view looking down the earth road, built on the hillside, with steep slopes down on the left and a small rockface on the right. With three men standing on the road.
Fair condition, fading in from edges and with slight overall fading..

Cascade and Rocks. 220 x 275 mm. A view of a steep rockface, with a cascade of water in the lower half of the picture, and two men standing on a ledge above.
Good condition, apart from fading in from edges..

Cascade and Rocks. 220 x 275 mm. A view of a rocky hillside, scattered with trees and shrubs, with a man sitting on a ledge above a small cascade which drops into a pool at the bottom of the picture.
Fair condition, fading in from edges and slight overall fading..

Saville's Creek. 275 x 220 mm. A view of the creek, with thickly wooded banks rising steeply on each side.
Good condition, apart from fading in from edges..

Temptation Creek. 275 x 220 mm. A view of the creek, with wooded hillside on the banks. A large boulder stands in the foreground on the left.
Fair condition, fading in from edges and slight overall fading..

Port Hacking River [i.e. Hacking River], near Mangrove Creek. 275 x 220 mm. A view of the edge of the river with trees running down to the sandy beach.
Fair condition, fading in from edges with slight overall fading..

Port Hacking River [i.e. Hacking River], near Loftus (below the Dam). 275 x 220 mm. A view of the river at a fairly wide point, with tree-lined hills coming to the water's edge.
Fair condition, fading in from edges and some overall fading..

Kangaroo Creek. 275 x 220 mm. A view of a curve of the creek, with a man rowing, and a tree-lined hill rising beyond.
Poor condition, fading in from edges, with some overall fading and some dirt stains..