William Stanley Jevons

(1835-1882)

Active: Australia 1857-1859

Profession: Economist, logician, assayer, amateur photographer, biologist and musician.

Jevons came to Sydney in 1854 to work as an assayer at the Sydney branch of the Royal Mint. As early as January 1857 he had been photographing around his home in Double Bay, Sydney. He used the wet and dry collodion process on his photographic journey's with his friends Robert Hunt and John Smith. There are three stereo photographs in the Macleay Collection taken on his trip to Braidwood, New South Wales, in January 1859. He left Australia in April 1859. He was later professor of political economy at University College London and was made a member of the Royal Society of London in 1872.

Group of three Aboriginal people at Jembaicumbene, a goldmining settlement near Braidwood. New South Wales, Australia, 1859, W. S. Jevons, stereoscopic albumen print.

Goldmining near Braidwood. New South Wales, Australia, 1859, W. S. Jevons, stereoscopic albumen print.

Goldmining Camp near Braidwood. New South Wales, Australia, 1859, W. S. Jevons, stereoscopic albumen print.

The Following 19 Images were donated to the Macleyay Museum in 2003. They are reputed to have some association with the Jevons family and were probably taken some time after Jevons left Australia. We have not conducted any research into these images as yet but would appreciate any assistance in identifying the both the locations of the photographs and the photographer.