• Photographic portrait of four bank employees, Copperfield, Peak Downs, Queensland, 1872-75

    CROWNSON, A.

    # 4654

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm, verso with imprint of A. Crownson, Photographer, Copperfield, Peak Downs, and contemporary inscription in ink identifying the four men in the portrait as '1. W. Selnay, A / S Bank Copfd. 2. Pomerell ditto 3. W. Hendren Bk N.S. Wales Copfd 4. J.M. Davidson ditto', the albumen print in excellent condition with rich tones, the mount with mild toning. Within two years of the discovery of gold at Clermont in 1861, the Peak Downs Copper Company commenced its copper mining operation at a location just to the south of the …

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    $ 375.00 AUD

  • Photographic portrait of an Italian immigrant’s family, Mudgee, New South Wales, 1871-2

    Photographer unknown.

    # 4653

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 102 mm, no studio imprint, verso with contemporary inscription in ink: 'La mi direzione e cosi. Mr J. Ferrari, Mudgee, N.S. Wales' ('This is my address ....'), the albumen print with some mildly uneven toning, the mount clean.  The township of Mudgee in the central west of New South Wales was close to the epicentre of the New South Wales gold rush which was sparked in 1851 by Hargraves' discovery. The famous gold rush towns of Gulgong and Hill End, both documented photographically by Beaufoy Merlin in his …

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  • Photographic portrait of a young woman, Braidwood, New South Wales, circa 1867

    James Brothers.

    # 4652

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm, verso with imprint of James, Brothers London Portrait Studio, with secondary imprint of Market Square Braidwood, the albumen print in very good condition, the mount with mild toning.  Although Braidwood was already established as a small township by 1840, the discovery of gold in the area in 1851 sparked a gold rush in the Southern Tablelands region which saw the population of the town increase to around 10,000 by the late 1860s, when this portrait was taken. The firm of James Brothers (Edward and James James) operated studios …

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    $ 30.00 AUD

  • Photographic portrait of a young woman, southern New South Wales, 1868-69

    Boston & Barker

    # 4651

    Albumen print photograph with gold tinted highlights, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm, verso with imprint of Boston & Barker Artist Photographers (a rarely seen back mark), the albumen print in very good condition, the mount with some mild toning. The travelling partnership of Thomas Boston, a photographer from Newtown in Sydney, and his associate C.F. Barker worked in southern New South Wales during 1868-69, first at Cooma Station, Yass, and then at Young the following year. The dress and hairstyle of the young woman in this fine studio portrait are consistent with a late …

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    $ 75.00 AUD

  • [NEW ZEALAND] Photographic portraits of three fashionable young women, Dunedin, late 1870s

    Clifford, Morris & Co.

    # 4650

    Three albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm, two with hand colouring, two imprinted Clifford, Morris & Co. Artists, Fleet Street, Dunedin, and one imprinted Clifford & Morris. Artists, Fleet Street, Dunedin, the albumen prints in very good condition, one with crease to lower right corner of mount, not affecting the image. …

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    $ 30.00 AUD

  • [NEW ZEALAND] Photographic portrait of a sailor, Lyttelton, circa 1880

    TEAGUE, E.

    # 4649

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm, verso with wet stamp of E. Teague, Photographer, Oxford St., Lyttelton, the albumen print with some mottling in the negative but in good condition, the mount fine. …

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    $ 30.00 AUD

  • [NEW ZEALAND] Photographic portraits by various Timaru studios, 1860s-1880s

    Various photographers.

    # 4648

    A group of twenty-two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format (approximately 103 x 64 mm), all by Timaru studios and dating from the late 1860s to late 1880s; the studios represented are T.E. Price (3); Price & Hartman (5); Smith (4); Rudolph Haigh (3); Coxhead (1); Coxhead & Sargeant (1); Adolf Gottlieb Fischer (1); William Ferrier (4); two of the cartes with foxing, but overall the group is in very good condition. …

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    $ 120.00 AUD

  • [NEW ZEALAND] Photographic portrait of a man wearing fraternal regalia, Christchurch, circa 1875

    E. Wheeler & Son

    # 4647

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 63 mm, verso with imprint of E. Wheeler & Son, Artists & Photographers, Colombo Street, Christchurch, Patronized by their Late Excellencies Sir George Grey and Sir George F. Bowen, the albumen print in good condition with a few of spots of foxing. …

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    $ 30.00 AUD

  • [NEW ZEALAND] Photographic portraits of the Forrest family, Waimate, 1870s-80s

    Various photographers.

    # 4646

    A group of twelve albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, each approximately 104 x 63 mm, six with the imprint verso of Frederick Smith's studio (three different back mark designs), including a superb early 1870s outdoor photograph of a large family group showing some of the members on horseback (presumably in the garden of their property); five with the imprint verso of Waimate Portrait Gallery, Queen Street, and one with the imprint of James Fiddes, Wagga Wagga (New South Wales), the verso of which bears a contemporary inscription Mrs R. Forrest, Waimate; the majority in …

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    $ 165.00 AUD

  • [NEW ZEALAND] Photographic portrait of Fanny Johnson, Christchurch, 1868-69

    E. Wheeler & Son

    # 4645

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 106 x 63 mm, verso with imprint of E. Wheeler & Son, Colombo Street, Christchurch, Photographers to His Excellency Sir G. F. Bowen, and contemporary inscription in ink 'Fanney [sic] Johnson'; the albumen print in very good condition with excellent tonal range, the mount with some toning.  In all likelihood the sitter is the same Fanny Johnson (1847-1918) who married John Lines (1842-1910) on 10 March, 1870 in Akaroa. …

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    $ 30.00 AUD

  • A talented Jack Russell, Adelaide, circa 1890

    William H. Hammer & Co.

    # 4632

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 105 mm, recto with imprint of 'Hammer & Co., 6 Rundle Street Adelaide and St. Vincent Street, Port Adelaide', verso blank, the albumen print in good condition with a couple of light marks. …

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    $ 80.00 AUD

  • [TASMANIAN ABORIGINES] William Lanney, Coal River Tribe, 26 years

    WOOLLEY, Charles A.; BEATTIE, J.W.

    # 4629

    [Title from copy in the National Library of Australia, PIC/7989]. 1866. Albumen print photograph, 200 x 175 mm, printed by John Watt Beattie around 1892 from Charles Woolley's glass negative, laid down on a section from a folio size nineteenth century album page, contemporary inscription in ink beneath image 'The last survivor of the Tasmanian aborigines, & his squaw, both now dead. 1892'. (An albumen print of Trugernanner, or Truganini, from the same series of portraits taken by Woolley, was obviously originally laid down on the other section of the page, now separated).; …

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    $ 2,500.00 AUD

  • Photographic portrait of a father and son with a bicycle

    Eclipse Studio

    # 4601

    Circa 1900. Silver albumen print photograph, cabinet card format (165 x 110 mm), recto of mount with imprint of Eclipse Studio. Hare Street, Echuca, verso blank; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. …

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  • [ABORIGINES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA] Albany native

    Photographer unknown.

    # 4599

    Circa 1890. Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 140 x 100 mm, laid down on recto of contemporary album page (edges of page trimmed), contemporary inscription beneath image in ink: 'Albany Native', the albumen print in fine condition with excellent tonal range, the album page clean and unfoxed. The subject, who is dressed in ceremonial body decoration and holds a boomerang and spear, is a Noongar man. This image is reproduced, without any attribution, in Bates, Daisy & P.J. Bridge (editor). Aboriginal Perth : Bibbulmun Biographies and Legends (Perth : Hesperian Press, …

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    $ 1,500.00 AUD

  • [ABORIGINES; SOUTH AUSTRALIA] Native wurley

    STUMP & CO.

    # 4598

    Circa 1890. Albumen print photograph, 148 x 200 mm, unmounted, inscribed in negative at lower right Stump & Co., Adelaide and captioned at lower left Native wurley, verso blank, the print in very good condition. A large group of Aborigines photographed by Stump outside their dwellings in an unidentified South Australian location, presumably near Adelaide. Stump & Co. produced a number of photographic views of Adelaide in the early 1890s, but this group portrait appears to have been the only outdoor photograph of Aborigines the company sold commercially. Much better known is the Stump …

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    $ 1,000.00 AUD

  • Aboriginal camp, Point McLeay, South Australia, 1880

    SWEET, Samuel White (1825-1886)

    # 4597

    Albumen print photograph, 170 x 210 mm, mounted on a section of a contemporary album page, inscribed in negative at lower left Sweet Adelaide 455, a very strong print in excellent condition with rich tonal range.  The National Library of Australia's copy of this, one of Captain Sweet's best known photographs of Aborigines, is captioned 'Blacks whurlie'. Although the NLA dates their copy to 1870, the photograph was in fact one of a highly successful series of portraits of Ngarrindjeri people Captain Sweet took in and around the Point McLeay mission late in 1880: Sweet's …

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  • Photographic portrait of an Aboriginal man, New South Wales, circa 1895

    KERRY, Charles

    # 4596

    Albumen print photograph, 195 x 135 mm, unmounted, trimmed slightly and lacking the Kerry imprint at the lower edge, contemporary inscription in pencil verso reads '553, Aboriginal, N.S.W.', a strong print with good tonal range, faint creases running parallel to three margins, faint foxing verso. One of a set of Aboriginal portraits by Kerry which were commissioned by the N.S.W. Government in the mid 1890s. …

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  • Photographs of identified Aboriginal men, Corunna Downs Station, northwest Western Australia, 1924

    Photographer unknown.

    # 4595

    Two photographs on printing out paper, 75 x 130 mm and 130 x 75 mm respectively, laid down on recto of contemporary album page, contemporary captions in pencil beneath each: Paddy & Sunday Corunna Downs July 1924 and Alec & Millet Corunna Downs July 1924; both photographs are strong prints in excellent condition, the album page clean and unfoxed. Indigenous writer Sally Morgan's critically acclaimed but controversial book My place (1987) tells one side of the story of the relations between whites and Aborigines on the Corunna Downs Station in the remote Pilbara region in …

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    $ 850.00 AUD

  • [ABORIGINES] Natives receiving rations. Central Australia, circa 1900

    Photographer unknown.

    # 4593

    Albumen print photograph, 143 x 200 mm, laid down on contemporary album page of thick card, with contemporary caption in ink to lower margin 'Natives receiving rations', the print with some light marks to the sky area but in good condition, the mount clean. This photograph, showing a group of Pitjantjatjara men and women receiving rations, was possibly taken at the Lutheran Finke River Mission. This mission had been established as early as 1877 and was a centre for the distribution of rations until well into the second half of the twentieth century. …

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    $ 700.00 AUD

  • Aborigine, northern N.S.W. - King Tommy. Carr’s Creek, Grafton district.

    [HARDIE, Fred ?] WILSON, George Washington, 1823-1893

    # 4592

    Circa 1890. Albumen print photograph, 285 x 235 mm, unmounted, inscribed in negative 'Aborigine, Northern N.S.W. - "King Tommy", 30,403. G.W.W.'; the albumen print is in excellent condition, a strong image with good tonal range. This photograph was taken around 1890 or slightly later by a staff photographer (possibly Fred Hardie) working for the Scottish photographer and publisher George Washington Wilson. The print would have been sold commercially in the United Kingdom and possbly also through licensed sellers in Australia. The subject of this arresting, close-up portrait is wearing a …

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  • Photographic portrait of a young woman, Hobart, circa 1866

    NEVIN, Thomas J.

    # 4569

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm, verso with imprint in blue ink of City Photographic Establishment. T. Nevin late A. Bock. 140 Elizabeth St. Hobart Town, the albumen print in fine condition, recto of the mount with a few light marks not affecting the oval format image. In August 1865 Thomas Nevin, Alfred Bock's former assistant, had purchased the lease to Alfred Bock's studio and equipment located at 140 Elizabeth Street. This fine portrait of a young woman by Nevin would seem to date to very soon after the commencement of his business at Bock's former …

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  • Photographic portrait of a wealthy couple and their dog, Hobart, circa 1866

    NEVIN, Thomas J.

    # 4568

    Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm, verso with imprint in black ink of City Photographic Establishment. T. Nevin late A. Bock. 140 Elizabeth St. Hobart Town, both albumen print and mount in fine condition. In August 1865 Thomas Nevin had purchased the lease to Alfred Bock's studio and equipment on the premises at 140 Elizabeth Street. This superb tinted portrait of a husband and wife by Nevin probably dates to around 1866, as the wording of Nevin's back mark suggests. …

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  • Photographic portrait of two young brothers, Melbourne, circa 1885

    STEWART & CO.

    # 4561

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 110 mm, recto with imprint of Stewart & Co., 217 & 219 Bourke St. East, Melbourne, albumen print and mount in very good condition. …

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    $ 25.00 AUD

  • A family and their pets, Fitzroy, Melbourne, circa 1900

    PARTRIDGE, F.

    # 4559

    Two albumen print photographs, cabinet card format, each 165 x 110 mm, versos with imprint of F. Partridge, 22 Egremont St., N. Fitzroy, both albumen prints and mounts in fine condition. A wonderful pair of portraits of a family posing with their pets - dog, cat and caged bird - outside their house in Melbourne's inner north. A charming visual record of Melbourne domestic life around the time of Federation. …

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  • Large Australian outdoor gathering, circa 1885

    Photographer unknown.

    # 4557

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 61 x 101 mm, verso blank, albumen print in very good condition, the verso of mount with moderate foxing. From a Melbourne family album, this highly unusual outdoor group portrait provides a sharply focused bird's eye view of a large assembly of well over one hundred men, women and children dressed in their 'Sunday best'. They are for the most part seated, and the gently sloping patch of cleared ground and wooden fence at top right suggest the photograph may have been taken on the banks of the Yarra. …

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    $ 85.00 AUD

  • His Master’s Voice : Highlands, New Guinea, circa 1935

    Photographer unknown.

    # 4556

    Black and white print on printing out paper, 75 x 118 mm, verso blank. Fine. Three men of the Highlands region of Papua New Guinea listen to a record being played on an HMV portable gramophone (British, circa 1931 model: cf. Science Museum, London, image 10325634).  …

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  • Negative kept : Maori and the carte de visite

    GRAHAM-STEWART, Michael

    # 4555

    Michael Graham-Stewart in association with John Gow. Introductory essay by Keith Giles. Auckland : John Leech Gallery, 2013. Large quarto, illustrated wrappers, 198 pp, colour photographic illustrations throughout, with essays by Michael Graham-Stewart and Keith Giles. A superbly produced catalogue showcasing what is almost certainly the most comprehensive collection of Maori carte de visite photographs in public or private hands, as well as one of the most important private collections of nineteenth century photographs of Polynesian peoples ever assembled. A brand new publication, of which we …

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    $ 85.00 AUD

  • Torres Strait Islander men wearing head-dresses, circa 1911

    LANDTMAN, Gunnar (1878-1940)

    # 4548

    Gelatin silver photograph, 80 x 110 mm, laid down on contemporary postcard stock (87 x 140 mm), recto with contemporary inscription in right margin 'Turituri (B.N.G.) head-dress at dances. G. Landtman.' Fine. The Finnish social anthropologist Gunnar Landtman conducted field work in the Torres Strait islands and the neighbouring, culturally related Fly River and Papuan Gulf areas of the south coast of British New Guinea during his expedition of 1910-1912. Turituri (or Toura Toura) is located on the mainland of New Guinea close to Daru Island. The people of this region shared much in …

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    $ 400.00 AUD

  • [FASHION] A bikini - of human hair

    Keystone Press; [LILLIAN FRANK]

    # 4545

    Press photograph, 205 x 120 mm, black and white print on glossy paper, verso with typed press label '25.1.68. Model Geraldine wears what looks like an ordinary tiny bikini. But it's probably the only one of its kind in the world. It's made of human hair. Australian hairdresser, Lillian Frank, of Melbourne, made it as an experiment, and was seen at a special hair styling demonstraion in London last night. Geraldine's hairstyle is also the work of Lillian - it's a bathing ca. The curls are real hair, treated with a plasticised lacquer, so they won't come out in the …

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  • Photographic portrait of a youth on a racing bike, Toowoomba, Queensland, late 1890s

    Trilby Studio.

    # 4521

    Silver gelatin print photograph, 140 x 95 mm, mounted on a cabinet card, recto with imprint of Trilby Studio Toowoomba, J. Bain, Manager, the print lightly foxed and lifting from the mount, small nick to lower right edge, the mount with some loss at lower right corner.  …

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  • Photographic portrait of a young girl holding a posy of flowers, Beechworth, Victoria, circa 1875

    BRAY, James E.

    # 4520

    Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 100 x 62 mm, verso with imprint of Photographed by Jas. E. Bray, Camp St., Beechworth, both the albumen print and mount in fine condition. James Bray began his career as a professional photographer in Sydney in the 1860s, but he later moved to the Victorian goldfields town of Beechworth. Davies & Stanbury (Mechanical Eye) list Bray as active in Beechworth from 1884, but this charming tinted portrait of a young girl is clearly much earlier than this date. The negative number 1271 would suggest that the carte de visite …

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    $ 25.00 AUD

  • Photograph of the Grafton Steam Punt, Clarence River, northern New South Wales, circa 1870

    Photographer unknown.

    # 4519

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 102 mm, verso with contemporary inscription in ink The Grafton Steam Punt, both the albumen print and mount with a moderate amount of foxing. A report in the Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser for 25 August, 1868 described the launch of the Grafton Steam Punt, which apart from its wooden deck was constructed entirely from iron. This rare photographic view of the punt, with the crew and representatives of the Clarence and New England Steam Navigation Company posing on board, was taken around 1870 or earlier, …

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  • Photographic portrait of lady playing the harp, Beechworth, Victoria, circa 1885

    BRAY, James E.

    # 4518

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm, recto and verso with imprint of Jas. E. Bray, Beechworth, Victoria, the albumen print with some mottling in the negative but in good condition, the mount fine. …

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    $ 75.00 AUD

  • Photographic portrait of Australian Aboriginal singer Georgia Lee, January 1954

    Keystone Press.

    # 4515

    Press photograph, 255 x 205 mm, black and white print on glossy paper, verso with typed press label '29.1.54. Australian Aborigine singer rehearses for "Jazz Session" at Festival Hall ... Georgia Lee - an Australian Aboriginal singer - seen during rehearsal at the B.B.C. Studio, Piccadilly, in readiness for the Jazz Session in which she is to appear on Sunday with Geraldo at the Festival Hall ...', wet stamp of Keystone Press Agency, New York. Fine condition. Georgia Lee (1921-2010) was the stage name of Dulcie Rama Pitt, a jazz and blues singer from Cairns, North Queensland, of …

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    $ 110.00 AUD

  • [TASMANIA] On the Snug River, N.W. Bay, D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania

    Photographer unknown.

    # 4506

    Early 1860s. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 72 x 75 mm, mount 83 x 170 mm, no photographer's imprint, verso with contemporary inscription in ink: On the Snug River, N.W. Bay, D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania; both albumen prints are slightly pale; the flat, square-cornered yellow mount is in very good condition. A very early photograph of this area, of which we can find no other recorded copy. …

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    $ 85.00 AUD

  • [SYDNEY] Head of Middle Harbour

    Anon.

    # 4505

    Circa 1905. Gelatin silver photograph, 88 x 138 mm, printed on card stock, recto with contemporary caption in ink in right margin, Head of Middle Harbor [sic], verso with a Xmas greeting initialled H.W.A., postally used and postmarked 'Mosman, NSW, DE 22 05', some mild edge wear, otherwise very good condition. The view in this privately printed amateur photograph looks north along Middle Harbour Creek in what is now the Garigal National Park, with East Killara and East Lindfield on the western bank and the modern suburb of Davidson on the right. Until the opening of the North …

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    $ 30.00 AUD

  • Photographic portrait of a bride in her wedding dress, Melbourne, circa 1885

    Johnstone, O'Shannessy & Company Limited.

    # 4483

    Albumen print photograph, large cabinet card format, 210 x 130 mm, recto of mount with imprint of Johnstone, O'Shannessy & Company Limited, verso blank, both albumen print and mount in fine condition. A masterful portrait with a remarkable painterly quality, the luminous wedding dress complemented perfectly by the muted tones of the studio wallpaper, wooden panels, fireplace and rug. …

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    $ 220.00 AUD

  • Photographic portraits of a boy and girl in theatrical costume, Melbourne, circa 1890

    WOOD, David

    # 4482

    Two albumen print photographs, cabinet card format, 165 x 150 mm, rectos imprinted D. Wood, near Town Hall, South Melbourne, versos blank, the albumen prints and mounts in fine condition. …

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    $ 65.00 AUD

  • Photographic portrait of a man in theatrical costume, North Sydney, circa 1900

    Royal Studios

    # 4481

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 150 mm, recto of mount with imprint of Royal Studios, 187 Miller Street, North Sydney, verso blank; both the albumen print and mount are in very good condition. …

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    $ 40.00 AUD

  • Studio photograph of Aboriginal children posed in and around tree branches, Queensland, circa 1900

    TAYLOR, L. J. or HOGG, John J.

    # 4479

    Glass magic lantern slide, 83 x 83 mm, image 72 x 47 mm, no photographer's imprint, fine condition, the glass without flaws, the mount with some loss to the black paper border. Exhibited: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. 'Taboo', curated by Brook Andrew, December 2012 - March 2013. This extraordinary image is an oval-formatted view of a slightly larger studio composition, a copy of which was published in Michael Aird's Portraits of our elders (Queensland Museum, 1993, plate 21). The reproduction in Aird's book shows an albumen print photograph in cabinet card format …

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    $ 1,800.00 AUD

  • Photographic portrait of Mr J. M. Buchanan, Melbourne, circa 1865

    DAVIES & CO.

    # 4464

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 63 mm, recto inscribed in ink Yours truly J. M. Buchanan, verso with imprint of Davies & Co., Photographers, 5 Collins Street West, Melbourne, the albumen print in good condition (some light marks), the mount clean. A signed, vignetted portrait of a slightly crossed-eyed Melbourne gentleman. …

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    $ 35.00 AUD

  • Photographic portrait of Miss Annette Wells, Melbourne, 1867

    Batchelder & O'Neill

    # 4463

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 66 mm, verso with imprint of Batchelder & O'Neill, 57 Collins Street East, Melbourne, and contemporary inscription in pencil Annette Wells 1867, the albumen print in good condition (some light rubbing), the mount with toning. …

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    $ 30.00 AUD

  • [NEW ZEALAND; THEATRE] Photographic portraits of male theatrical performers, Timaru, circa 1875

    PRICE, T. E.

    # 4462

    Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 104 x 62 mm, versos with imprint of T.E. Price Photographer Timaru, the albumen prints and mounts in fine condition.  Two highly unusual studio photographs of male performers (possibly from an amateur dramatic society), one clearly being a tableau of a comic scene from one of their productions, the other with a humorous arrangement of heads within an empty picture frame. …

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    $ 165.00 AUD

  • [NEW ZEALAND; THEATRE] Photographic portrait of a comedian in black face, Dunedin, circa 1880

    Clifford & Morris.

    # 4460

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 64 mm, recto and verso with imprint of Clifford & Morris, Fleet Street, Dunedin, the albumen print in very good condition (some mottling in the negative), the mount fine. A rare studio photograph of a professional comedian in in black face and full costume, posing with a zany expression. His stage props include an umbrella, jug and white gloves. …

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    $ 165.00 AUD

  • Photographic portrait of a girl in summer dress, Melbourne, circa 1865

    Johnstone, O'Shannessy & Co.

    # 4459

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 106 x 65 mm, verso with imprint of Johnstone, O'Shannessy & Co. Artist Photographers, 3 Bourke Steet East, Near the Post Office, Melbourne, both albumen print and mount in fine condition. A magnificent study of an early adolescent girl wearing an off-the-shoulder dress and holding a summer hat, posing beside a neo-classical amphora which rests atop a plinth. The subject is superbly highlighted against the muted painted backdrop. …

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    $ 85.00 AUD

  • Photographic portrait of a boy with a cricket bat and ball, Moonta, South Australia, late 1860s

    BENTLEY, William (attributed)

    # 4458

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 62 mm, no studio imprint, but the painted backdrop is identical to that of William Bentley's Moonta studio (see p.33 in A century in focus : South Australian photography 1840s-1940s, edited by Julie Robinson and Maria Zagala, Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2007), both albumen print and mount in fine condition. A beautifully composed and lit portrait, which can be firmly attributed to Bentley's studio in the small copper mining town of Moonta on the Yorke Peninsula. …

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    $ 125.00 AUD

  • [MARITIME] Admiral Fitzroy’s storm warning signals.

    W.H. MASON

    # 4457

    Circa 1865. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 106 x 63 mm, verso with imprint of W.H. Mason, Repository of Arts, 108 King's Road, Brighton, both albumen print and mount in fine condition. Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy RN (1805–1865) is best remembered for having commanded HMS Beagle during its famous five year voyage in the 1830s. As well as being an outstanding surveyor and hydrographer, FitzRoy was also a pioneer meteorolgist,. The carte de visite we offer here is a photograph of a drawn representation of the signals he developed, designed to be hoisted at ports along …

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    $ 75.00 AUD

  • Photographic portrait of a soldier of the New South Wales Volunteer Rifles, circa 1863

    GLAISTER, Thomas Skelton (1825-1904)

    # 4436

    Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de viste format, 104 x 63 mm, verso with imprint of T. S. Glaister, 253 Pitt Street, Sydney, the albumen print in excellent condition, the mount with some mild toning at the edges. Thomas Glaister's studio was located at these premises between 1863 and 1870.  The uniform worn by the unidentified soldier in this portrait bears the New South Wales Volunteer Rifles' distinctive shamrock design on the cuff. The Volunteer Rifles, formed in 1854, were the first colonial volunteers in New South Wales, and at the time this photograph was …

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    $ 330.00 AUD

  • Photographs of Maldon, central Victorian goldfields, 1869-70.

    Photographer unknown.

    # 4423

    Thirteen albumen print photographs, various formats ranging from 215 x 280 mm (largest) to 57 x 97 mm (smallest), laid down recto and verso of four nineteenth century album pages, contemporary manuscript captions in ink beneath each image, no photographer's imprint, the largest print captioned Laying the Foundation Stone of the Post Office, Maldon, 1869, the group including a carte de visite format photograph of an engraving by the goldfields artist S.T. Gill titled Native Dignity, which shows an Aboriginal couple partially dressed in flamboyant European attire (but with bare …

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    $ 3,500.00 AUD

  • Photographic portraits of Ernest Boulton, female impersonator, dressed as a man and a woman

    Photographers unknown.

    # 4420

    Circa 1870. Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm / 106 x 63 mm, neither with a studio imprint but the verso of the portrait of Boulton dressed as a woman with the wet stamp of Charlwood & Son, Booksellers and Stationers, 7 Bourke St. East [Melbourne, Australia]. Both albumen prints are in good condition, the female portrait with some mottling in the negative, the mounts clean. London-born Ernest Boulton (1848-1905) was a cross-dressing homosexual who in the late 1860s formed a theatrical partnership with his friend Frederick William Park, also a female …

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    $ 2,200.00 AUD