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Postcard (item) - Colour postcard, Nicholas John Caire, "Amidst the Gum Trees." "The Bush Hermit, Marysville.", 1858-1918

  • Printed postcard showing a coloured photograph of a small hut in the bush land at Marysville, Victoria. The oval shaped photograph is surrounded by a gold printed frame, the Australian coat of arms is centered at top. On the reverse is a handwritten message written in black ink. There is a space to place a postage stamp.

    "Amidst the gum trees." "The Bush Hermit, Marysville."

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  • Printed postcard showing a coloured photograph of a small hut in the bush land at Marysville, Victoria. The oval shaped photograph is surrounded by a gold printed frame, the Australian coat of arms is centered at top. On the reverse is a handwritten message written in black ink. There is a space to place a postage stamp.

Historical information

A postcard of a photograph taken by socialite photographer Nicholas John Caire. N.J. Caire had a great love for the area and in the late 1800's took many photographs of Marysville and its surrounds.

Significance

One of a series of postcards of photographs taken by socialite photographer Nicholas John Caire. N.J. Caire had a great love for the area in and surrounding Marysville and in the late 1800's took many photographs of Marysville and its surrounds. N.J. Caire was born in 1837 in Guernsey. He arrived in Adelaide about 1860 along with his parents who encouraged his early interest in photography. He opened a studio in Adelaide in 1867 after traveling extensively throughout the Gippsland taking photographs. After marrying in 1870 he moved to Talbot in Victoria until 1876 when he opened a studio in the Royal Arcade in Melbourne. After 1885 N.J. Caire gave up his city work and made his home in South Yarra and devoted the rest of his life to outdoor photography, specializing in the bush, the gullies and the mountains of south-eastern Victoria.

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