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Oblong Folio album (ca. 28x37 cm or 11 x 14 ¾ in). 21 card stock leaves. With 48 mounted albumen photos, including seven larger images, from ca. 21x26 cm (8 x 10 ¼ in) to ca. 17x23,5 cm (6 ¾ x 9 ¼ in); the rest of the photos are from ca. 15x20 cm (6x8 in) to ca. 11x20 cm (4 ½ x 7 ¾ in). About thirty photos are numbered, captioned or signed in negative, one photo with the photographer’s blind stamp in the left lower corner; over thirty photos with period ink captions in French on the mounts. Period brown half sheep with brown cloth boards, neatly repaired; spine and boards with gilt-tooled decorative borders; moire endpapers. Mounts slighty waved, several mildly soiled or age-toned, a few photos very mildly faded, but overall a very good album of strong interesting photos.Attractive collection of early,…
Read More [BLUE MOUNTAINS] Devil’s Coach House / Jenolan Caves by KERRY, Charles, 1857-1928
by KERRY, Charles, 1857-1928
[BLUE MOUNTAINS] Devil’s Coach House / Jenolan Caves
by KERRY, Charles, 1857-1928
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Circa 1889. Two albumen print photographs, each 210 x 150 mm, laid down on their original album leaf of thick card, contemporary calligraphic captions in red ink to the mount beneath each image, ""Devil's Coach House"" / ""Jenolan Caves"" [Carlotta's Arch]; the prints are in good condition, with slight loss of contrast and some light motting from the printing process. Charles Kerry's photographs of the Jenolan Caves were first published in Samuel Cook's The Jenolan Caves : an excursion in Australian wonderland (London, 1889). Independently of another Sydney photographer, Charles Bayliss, Kerry had experimented with flash light photography in the cave complex, with exceptional results. Electric lights had been installed in the caves as early as 1880 - Jenolan's caves were the first in the world to be illuminated by electricity - and by the time Cook's book was published Jenolan had become a major tourist destination, safely protected by government legislation.
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