Amateur Photographers Blackwell Reach

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c. 1895
Overview

Man with a camera on tripod atop a steep rocky outcrop. Another man, barefooted and with trousers rolled up is perched on rocks jutting into river. Tree lined shore in background.

Historical information

Blackwall Reach is a section of the Swan River in Western Australia.

Prior to European settlement, the area was known to the Noongar indigenous people as Jenalup, a sacred place linked to the Dreaming stories.

Blackwall Reach was named after an area of the River Thames near Greenwich UK in 1896 by admiralty surveyor L. S. Dawson. The name originally referred to that part of the river, rather than either side, but this changed in the twentieth century when the riverside land on the eastern bank just south of Point Walter was specifically called Blackwall Reach.

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cwa-org-28--9-221-b
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Caption [Blackwall Reach].

Contextual Information

Australian social history from the collection of photographs and albums donated to the museum by Raymond Sharkey's family.

Raymond John Sharkey an architect, surveyor and amateur photographer was born in 1868 in New South Wales. Raymond was a Claremont resident when he died at an early age.

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Blackwell Reach, Swan River Source: Claremont Museum 09.221b
Blackwell Reach, Swan River
Source: Claremont Museum 09.221b

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