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White swans on the Lagoon, Botanic Gardens, Melbourne

Melbourne

  • Lagoon, Botanic Gardens

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Acquisition number
899
Catalogue number
emdf0088
File name
DF0088
File location
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Scanned glass lantern slide of white swans and ducks on the Lagoon, Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, by East Melbourne photographer, John Henry Harvey.

Item type
Photograph
Item condition
Good
Photographer
John Henry Harvey

History of item

State Library of Victoria record:

Title: On lagoon, Botanical Gardens, Melbourne [picture] / J. H. Harvey.
Author/Creator: John Henry Harvey 1855-1938,
Date(s): [between 1875 and 1938]
Description: 1 slide : lantern ; 8.5 x 8.5 cm.
Copyright status: This work is out of copyright
Terms of use: No copyright restrictions apply.
Identifier(s): Accession no(s) H2009.100/446
Subjects: Swans -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Photographs ; Royal Botanic Gardens (Melbourne, Vic.) -- Photographs ; Glass transparencies ; Lantern slides
Index terms: Australia; Victoria; Melbourne; Botanical Gardens; swans
Notes: Title inscribed on slide.
Photographer's name inscribed on slide.
Not dated.
Contents/Summary: White swans and ducks on the banks of the Ornamental Lake at the Botanical Gardens.
Source/Donor: Gift; Miss Coath; 1938.
Related works: Series: J. H. Harvey collection of lantern slides.
Biographical/Historical note: Born in Melbourne; architect; worked 38 years with the Public Works Department of Victoria; Fellow of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects; Fellow of the the Royal Australian Instuitute of Architects; Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects; Honorary Editor of the Journal of the R.V.I.A for many years; died at his home in East Melbourne, aged 83.
Link to digitised item: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/137303
Link to this record: http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vi...

Owner of original
State Library of Victoria
Reproduction rights
State Library of Victoria

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