8019 Robert MacPherson Gift 4 Records.

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8019 Robert MacPherson Gift 4 Records.

A miscellaneous collection of items, including souvenir postcards, cookbooks, sewerage plans, and original photographs gathered by the donor over many years, and reflecting his wide-ranging interests in Australian popular magazines, ephemera, toys, postcards and typeface design.

Miscellaneous collection of items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8140099

Libraries Australia

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Macpherson, Robert, 1815 or 1816-1872

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Robert Macpherson was a surgeon from Edinburgh, Scotland who moved to Italy to become a painter in the early 1840s; from 1851 onward, he became an innovator in architectural photography, producing mammoth plate photographs of Rome and Tivoli. He also produced art reproduction photographs of sculpture. From the description of Robert Macpherson Collection. [1856]-1863. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 191957051 ...