If you have ever wondered what Orange looked like over 100 years ago, head to Orange Regional Museum find out. Currently on display is a photographic panorama by photographers Bradley & Barnes in 1907.
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Taken from the top of the Dalton Brothers' mill on Peisley Street, the panorama shows a snapshot of Orange at the turn of the twentieth century.
The original photograph measures nearly 2.5 metres long and is made up of 12 individual black and white silver gelatin prints.
For display along our hallway, we have enlarged and reproduced the image so that it stretches for 9 metres and individual landmarks are visible.
Iconic landmarks such as Mount Canobolas and Bowen Terrace are still features of the Orange landscape today, while other places visible in the 1907 panorama no longer exist such as the saleyards.
Since hanging the panorama in late 2019, we have been asking visitors to identify buildings, streets and parcels of land.
This has helped to build a detailed picture of how the Orange landscape has changed over the last 113 years, and has shown what places are important to or well-known by Orange residents.
Orange Regional Museum has done some digging about a few of the most popular sites identified in the panorama.
If you visit today, you'll be able read more from a historic newspaper article about a near-fatal traffic accident at the Wright, Heaton & Co factory barely a year after the panorama was photographed.
Other highlights reveal information about objects in Orange Regional Museum that relate to places visible on the panorama including Wade Park and Mount Canobolas.
The panorama was donated to Orange Regional Museum in 2018 by the Neich family, in memory of the McLachlan family.
Orange & District Historical Society volunteer and professional photographer Robert Bruce was also instrumental in allowing the image to be displayed by digitising and enhancing the copy.
The 1907 panorama is a small temporary display at Orange Regional Museum, and will be on show until August 2020.
Museum info:
- Opening Hours: 9am-4pm daily. Entry is free.
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