In the great Ore Crushing Mill of the Robinson Mine - the richest Gold Mine of Johannesburg, S.A.
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
90 x 179 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520673.49
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting a view of the great Ore Crushing Mill of the Robinson Mine Johannesburg, S.A. The print is mounted on stiff, curved, pink card with rounded corners. The images have arched tops and square bottoms. Recto: printed in black ink on the right lower margin: In the great Ore Crushing Mill of the Robinson Mine - the richest Gold Mine of Johannesburg, S.A.Copyright 1901 by Underwood & Underwood. Also embossed with the number 84. In the left hand margin printed in italic print in black ink Underwood & Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto- Canada, Ottawa- Kansas In the right hand margin: Works and Studios Arlington N.J. Littleton N.H. Washington D.C. Verso printed in black ink: "In the great Ore Crushing Mill of the Robinson Mine - the richest Gold Mine of Johannesburg, S.A." written in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Russian.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Underwood & Underwood, photographic studio