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Photograph (Item) - Black and white photograph, Nicholas John Caire, c1900

  • Shows Marysville in it's early days. There a a few buildings, some fencing and in the foreground is a bridge over a river. In the background is a heavily forested mountain. The photograph appears to have been taken from a high position; possibly near where the Anglican Church now stands.

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Historical information

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

Significance

A copy of an early black and white photograph of Marysville in Victoria taken by 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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