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Photograph (Item) - Black and white photograph, Nicholas John Caire, 1883

  • Show the early development of the township of Marysville in Victoria. In the foreground is a wooden bridge. There is a man sitting on the top railing and there is another man standing close by. In the background are a number of fenced off properties, some of which have timber buildings on them. There is also evidence of several trees having been cut down.

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Historical information

An early black and white photograph of the township of Marysville in Victoria.

Significance

An early black and white photograph of the township of Marysville in Victoria. This photograph of Marysville was taken by Nicholas John Caire in 1883.
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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