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Photograph (Item) - Colour tinted photograph, 1878-1904

  • Shows a wooden, white painted bridge that crosses over a river. In the foreground, standing on the bank of the river, is a young girl wearing a hat. In the background is a timber building surrounded by wooden fences.

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Historical information

A copy of an early colour tinted photograph of a wooden bridge in Marysville in Victoria.

Significance

A copy of an early colour tinted photograph of a wooden bridge in Marysville in Victoria. This photograph was taken by Nicholas John Caire between 1878 and 1904.
Nicholas John 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 Nicholas John 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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