amateur photographer and settler, arrived at Port Phillip (Victoria) with his wife in September 1840 on board the Himalaya . He had interests in several Victorian properties. While living at Woodstock Station, near Avoca, he exhibited view photographs of the district at the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition that were sent on to the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition. The Avoca Mail of 7 November 1866 reported:
Mr Dallimore of Woodstock, determined that the town of Avoca and its environs shall be pictorially represented at the Victorian and Paris Exhibitions, has we learn, forwarded a series of photographs representing the High Street and the Pyrenees [Victoria] from different points of view. All the photographs are well executed and will possess considerable interest for the friends of Avocaites visiting the World’s Fair in 1867.
Also included were views of Dallimore’s own station. They won him a medal 'for good Landscape Photography’. His panoramic photograph of Avoca is in the Shire Council offices.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
