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Postcard (item) - Colour tinted postcard, Nicholas John Caire, Cumberland Falls near Marysville, 1858-1918

  • Shows the Cumberland Falls which are in Cambarville. Shows the falls cascading down the mounain side. In the foreground is a tree and in the background a fallen log can be seen lying across the falls. On the reverse of the postcard is a space to write a message and and address and to place a postage stamp. The postcard is unused.

    Cumberland Falls near Marysville

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  • Shows the Cumberland Falls which are in Cambarville. Shows the falls cascading down the mounain side. In the foreground is a tree and in the background a fallen log can be seen lying across the falls. On the reverse of the postcard is a space to write a message and and address and to place a postage stamp. The postcard is unused.

Historical information

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 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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