Panoramas

My intention on this page is merely to refer to some of the panoramas of which I am aware, not to represent them adequately. My page is only 700 pixels wide, and you should ideally view some panoramas in a print a metre wide, or whatever. I hope you can find the photographs somewhere not on the Web.

There seem to be two panoramas by Stout. The first I have only as a tiny image in what may have been a 'carte de visite' format. As it indicates, it's in the Battye Library. Unusually, I'll show it uncropped. It's dated, in the caption, as 1848, but it shows Manning Hall, which was not built until 1858, which was also the date that Stout arrived in the colony.

The second Stout panorama, c. 1864 (below) was published in [[../../fhs/fs/9/Dowson.html|Fremantle Studies 9]], in an article by John Dowson (courtesy Chaney family). This photograph can be seen to much better advantage on a double page opening of John Dowson's 2003 book Old Fremantle: 86-87. I'll include the whole paragraph of text from John's 2017 article.

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John Dowson:
This is the earliest known photographic panorama of Fremantle. The scene shows the West End, looking northwest across the town. The white limestone, largely residential, buildings reflect the morning light. The townscape is dominated by the lighthouse, Round House, courthouse and harbour master’s house atop Arthur Head. Arthur Head was progressively and extensively quarried and the only building left on top there now is the 1831 Round House, the oldest public building in the state. To the far left is the large Commissariat store existing today as the Shipwreck Galleries of the Western Australian Museum and below it is evidence of the boat building that flourished along Marine Terrace. The three storeyed building in the middle is the Castle Hotel in Henry Street and to the right, the tallest building of all is Charles Manning’s massive home in Pakenham Street built to house his large family, with an observatory on top.

References and Links

The Historical Panoramas Project at Curtin University.

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This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 5 October, 2022 and hosted at freotopia.org/photographers/panoramas.html (it was last updated on 25 April, 2024), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.