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Photograph (Item) - Black and white photograph, Nicholas John Caire, c1880-1884

  • Shows Murchison Street in Marysville in Victoria. Shows a dirt road leading towards a forest. In the left of the photograph is the Keppel's Australian Hotel with four men standing out the front. On the right next to the hotel is another building with a wooden picket fence along its front. On the left of the hotel is fenced off area and further down the street there are more buildings. On the opposite side of the road are more buildings and the road curves around to the left with even more building situated along it.

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Historical information

A copy of an early black and white photograph of Murchison Street in Marysville in Victoria taken by Nicholas John Caire.

Significance

A copy of an early black and white photograph of Murchison Street in Marysville in Victoria taken by Nicholas John Caire.
Murchison Street was named for Roderick Impey Murchison who was one of the most distinguished geologists of the 19th century. His liberality and social position plus the pride he took in his science were of immense value in furthering the cause of learning in Britain.
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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