Tasmanian Scenes

Tasmanian Scenes

Bound volume

Samuel Clifford

Maker
Australian, 1827–1890

Tasmanian Scenes

ca. 1872
Bound volume
Overall (closed): 11 13/16 × 9 3/4 × 13/16 in. (30 × 24.8 × 2 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
DescriptionAlbum containing 25 albumen prints of views in Tasmania including Mount Wellington (Hobart) in South East Tasmania. Inscriptions in black ink below each image describe the scenes depicted. Album is bound in brown cloth with debossed gold lettering and decorative elements.
Inscriptions Debossed in gold on front cover, C: TASMANIAN SCENES \ S. CLIFFORD \ PHOTOGRAPHER
[Newspaper clipping describing the voyage pasted inside front cover and front flyleaf]
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) on verso of front flyleaf, T: No date except that on the Newspaper Clipping - 1872 \ Pictures Badly yellowed & faded \ But 1st I have seen from "Van Diemen's Land-" \ Book "signed" by the \ Photographer - on binding \ Boyer \ 3/1950
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) inside back cover, TLC: From Maas England \ OIIΣr het 3/1950 \ Boyer

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