Sub-item 2 - Cascades' Female Factory

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Reference code

AU TAS UTAS SPARC W9-Ph-146-2

Title

Cascades' Female Factory

Date(s)

  • 1892 (Creation)

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1 photograph

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Name of creator

(1859-1930)

Biographical history

John Watt Beattie (1859-1930), photographer and antiquarian, was born on 15 August 1859 at Aberdeen, Scotland, son of John Beattie, master house-painter and photographer, and his wife Esther Imlay, née Gillivray. After a grammar-school education he ... »

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Scope and content

Photograph of the Cascades' Female Factory looking toward Mt Wellington with the Cascade Brewery in the distance. In 1828 a Female Factory opened on the outskirts of Hobart at Cascades. It became the colony's largest Factory, expanding by 1853 into five ... »

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