View from Stockton to Newcastle (Illustrated Sydney News 16 February 1867)

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View of Newcastle, as seen across the harbour. Published in The Sydney Illustrated News, 16 February 1867, page 1.

 

View of Newcastle, as seen across the harbour. Published in The Sydney Illustrated News, 16 February 1867, page 1. (Detail 1) Click for a larger image.

 

View of Newcastle, as seen across the harbour. Published in The Sydney Illustrated News, 16 February 1867, page 1. (Detail 2) Click for a larger image.

 

View of Newcastle, as seen across the harbour. Published in The Sydney Illustrated News, 16 February 1867, page 1. (Detail 3) Click for a larger image.

This extraordinary view is based upon a photograph taken around 1865. See: https://hunterlivinghistories.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/1990-mulimbahhouseeje.pdf

A discussion of this engraving and its original source photograph from circa 1865 is here:
https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2019/03/07/earliest-photograph/

Gionni Di Gravio
University Archivist & Chair, Hunter Living Histories

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