• Title
  Photographs of the Dalwood Vineyards near Branxton, New South Wales, Australia, 1886
• Creator
  H. B. Ballard
• Call number
  PXD 740
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1886
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  152732
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (24 albumen photoprints, 1 diploma) - 46 x 37.5 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Dalwood House (Plate 1)
  2. Dalwood House, showing orchard in front, old stables, rick yard and wine stores (Plate 2)
  3. Dalwood House (Plate 3)
  4. Portion of orchard and new vine plantation (Plate 4)
  5. Dalwood vineyards showing grape pickers, carts with grape crushers, date palms and wine stores (Plate 5)
  6-8. Dalwood vineyards (Plates 6-8)
  9a. Black Verdot vines, age 28 years (Plate 9a)
  9b. Vintage Manager testing grape must, in glass tube, with Keene's percentage Saccharometer (Plate 9c)
  9c. Golden Shiraz vines, age 26 years (Plate 9b)
  10. Dalwood cellars, cellar hands, wine press-house, Cooper's residence offices etc (Plate 10)
  11a. Cooperage (Plate 11)
  11b. Distillery (Plate 12)
  12. Interior of principal wine-press room showing screw-presses and tubs, fermenting vats covered with canvas cloths and centrifugal pump drawing off wine must into cellar beyond (Plate 13)
  13. New wine press-room showing casks and part of wine press (Plate 14)
  14. Casks on either side and wine butts in centre (Plate 15)
  15a. Casks (Plate 16d)
  15b. Wine butts in Hot Room (Plate 16e)
  15c. Picture of show-cards showing medals etc awarded up to 1873 (Plate 17f)
  15d. Picture of Certificate of Wine Award from Sydney International Exhibition of 1879 (Plate 17e)
  16a. [Picture of] Certificate of Merit, First Class Gold Medal Award from Calcutta International Exhibition 1883-4 (Plate 19j)
  16b. Bordeaux International Exhibition / Amsterdam International Exhibition, 1882 [Diploma]
  16c. Picture of Diploma of Honour, Amsterdam International Exhibition, 1883 (Plate 18i)
  17. Portrait of the Proprietor [John Wyndham] and short history of Dalwood vineyards (Plate 19k)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  Cover title
  "March 25, 1886" printed [p.17]
  Index on reverse of title page
  Plate numbers taken from above each image
  
  NOTE: No entries in the Mitchell card catalogue located. No entry in shelf list for F634.8/1 -- Mar 1998
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823583
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Branxton 1886 -- in ink on title page
  Signed "John Wyndham" -- [p.17]
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Attributed to H. B. Ballard: article in the Maitland Mercury, 5 June 1886 page 4, discusses the photography of the Dalwood vineyards by Ballard. Curator of Photographs, October 2010
• Name
  Wyndham, John
  
• Subject
  Photograph albums.
  Portraits.
  Vineyards--New South Wales--Hunter River Region.
  Wine and winemaking--New South Wales.
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  grape pickers
  grapes
  grapevines
  houses
  medals
  prizes & awards
  signatures
  vineyards
  wine casks
  wine cellars
  winegrowers
  winepresses
  
• Place
  Dalwood Vineyards (Branxton, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1066878

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