Historical information

J.N. Dalimore was an amateur photographer and settler who arrived at Port Phillip (Victoria) with his wife in September 1840 on board the Himalaya. Dalimore lived at Woodstock Station, near Avoca, he exhibited view photographs of the district at the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition that were sent on to the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition. The Avoca Mail of 7 November 1866 reported: Mr Dallimore of Woodstock, determined that the town of Avoca and its environs shall be pictorially represented at the Victorian and Paris Exhibitions, has we learn, forwarded a series of photographs representing the High Street and the Pyrenees [Victoria] from different points of view. All the photographs are well executed and will possess considerable interest for the friends of Avocaites visiting the World’s Fair in 1867. Also included were views of Dallimore’s own station. They won him a medal 'for good Landscape Photography’. His panoramic photograph of Avoca is in the Shire Council

Significance

significant as a historic photograph of Avoca, locally significant to the Central Highlands Region of Victoria as a representation of local landscape and/or culture

Physical description

Black and white photograph of Avoca showing Rutherford Street to the left and the original site of the Avoca Hotel

Inscriptions & markings

"verso (affixed): AVOCA MAIL, 1st JUNE 1867.
""A remarkably well-executed photograph of the town of Avoca taken in 1866. and forming one of the exhibits at the Melbourne Exhibition, has been presented to the Avoca Shire Councilby F.W. Dalimore formally of Woodstock

verso (affixed): No. 875
Intercolonial Exhibition 1866
Exhibitor: Avoca Shire Council
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