2 Photographs of Brisbane Flood of 1893: D. L Brown & Co, Short St. and Montague Rd., South Brisbane

P. C. Poulsen

Brisbane

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Poul C. Poulsen

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1893

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Photograph.

15cm x 20cm (mount size). 2 albumen photographs.

2 photographs, mounted one on each side of a board, showing D. L. Brown & Co.’s Short Street premises and surrounding buildings, with the partially destroyed Victoria Street bridge in the background, and folks in boats and a young boy and a dog in the water on Montague Road, South Brisbane, during the flood of 1893. The photo of D. L. Brown & Co. is signed P. C. Poulsen. The Montague Rd. photo is unsigned. Poul Christensen Poulsen was Brisbane’s leading photographer in the late 19th century.

Very minor fading. Near Fine Condition.