digital photograph(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,Ca47.108
- Title
- Series: Thomas Edge-Partington album 7
- Description
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Digital image of a stereographic photograph of a forest scene with village houses supported on poles and two people standing in the foreground.
- Production date
- 1907
- Dimensions
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Height: 9.40 centimetres (image)
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Height: 10.10 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 14.70 centimetres (image)
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Width: 17.80 centimetres (mount)
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- Curator's comments
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From a set of 'THE ROSE STEREOGRAPHS. PUBLISHED BY GEORGE ROSE, MELBOURNE, SYDNEY & LONDON', of photographs taken by George Rose on a tour of Solomon Islands in 1907.
Same photo in album Oc,Ca44.190
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This photograph was taken by George Rose in 1907 for his series The Rose Stereographs. Rose travelled to New Guinea and Solomon Islands in the Burns Philp steamship Makambo on a five week round trip from Sydney. (see R. Blum 2008 George Rose: Australia's master stereographer.)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2005
- Acquisition notes
- Copied from an album of photographs compiled by Thomas W. Edge-Partington prior to 1920, in possession of his son Capt. Thomas K. Edge-Partington, who assigned conditional copyright to the British Museum in 2005 (See PicDoc 186).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,Ca47.108
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 12,307 (Rose Stereograph number)
