Photographs - Ethnography
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# 45848
GRAHAM-STEWART, Michael; McWHANNELL, Francis; DICKSON, Jonathan
Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963
Melbourne : Michael Graham-Stewart, 2017. Quarto (285 x 230 mm), cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp, illustrated in colour throughout with hundreds of photographs documenting the collision of Indigenous Australian and European cultures; the photographs, ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1960s and taken in every region of Australia, represent some …
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# 47154
OTTO, J. H. (Johann Henri)
Portrait of a group of Menang Noongar men and women. Albany area, Western Australia, late 1880s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount), verso with wet stamp of ‘J. H. Otto, Portrait and Landscape Photographer, Albany, W.A.’; the print has mottling in the negative and has lost some contrast; the mount has old residual glue marks verso (the carte was once mounted in an album). A …
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# 46920
KRUGER, Johann Friedrich Carl (Fred), (1831-1888)
“Queen Mary, Ballarat”.
[Caption from inscription on verso of mount]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso inscribed in ink (probably in the hand of the photographer) ‘Queen Mary / Ballarat’; a beautiful print with excellent clarity; the mount is clean and stable. This full-length portrait of Mary Phillips, who was commonly …
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# 47035
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION (NIXON, Stephen Edward, 1842-1910)
View of part of the Moonta copper mines, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, c.1882.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 105 mm (mount); recto with fully contemporary inscription in ink to lower margin: ‘Part of Moonta Mines, S. Australia’; verso with the lithographed back mark of ‘The South Australian Photographic Association. Taylor Street, Kadina. Stephen Nixon (Artist), Manager’; the print is in good condition; the mount …
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# 46922
DUESBURY, Samuel
Studio portrait of Turrbal or Jagera men and women. Brisbane, c.1870.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 61 mm (mount); verso with wet stamp of ‘S. Duesbury, Photographer, Brisbane’; some very pale foxing to the print and the mount. Staffordshire-born photographer Samuel Duesbury was active in Brisbane from 1868. Along with Thomas Bevan, Daniel Marquis, and John Watson, he was one of the four …
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# 46903
BOOMERANG ENTERTAINMENT
Promotional photograph of Aboriginal musician Fred Little, younger brother of renowned Yorta Yorta singer-songwriter Jimmy Little.
Granville, NSW : Boomerang Entertainment Centre, [c.1960]. Black-and-white photograph on glossy paper, 165 x 215 mm, verso with wet stamp of the Boomerang Entertainment Centre, and identifying caption in pen ‘Fred Little’; light creasing and corner wear.
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# 46902
[Photographer unknown].
Adnyamathanha group, Nepabunna Mission, northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia, c.1931.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 71 x 116 mm; verso with later pencilled annotation ‘Nepabunna Mission area’ (this information was most likely copied from an album mount); fine condition. ‘The Adnyamathanha people were displaced from their traditional lands in the 1850s by pastoralists, no longer able to travel around their lands as before owing to the …
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# 46901
STUMP & CO. [STUMP, Alfred, 1860-1925]
“Native wurley”. South Australia, c.1890.
Albumen print photograph, 150 x 200 mm; handwritten caption in negative ‘Native wurley’, along with ‘Stump & Co., Adelaide’; unmounted; a good print with excellent clarity, in fine condition.
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# 46579
BURNELL, George (1830-1894)
“Group of Aborigines, Lake Alexandrina” (1862).
[Title from contemporary inscription in ink verso]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 70 x 75 mm (arch-top format), on original flat mount of pale green/azure card, 85 x 180 mm; fully contemporary inscription in ink verso: ‘Group of Aborigines, Lake Alexandrina’, with the original owner’s initials ‘M.A.H.’ and their collection number ’79’; the …
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# 46443
[Photographer unknown].
View inside the trading post of Oloff & Co. at Lome, Togoland Protectorate, West Africa, c.1890.
Albumen print photograph, 100 x 140 mm, on original card mount, 185 x 220 mm, fully contemporary inscription in ink below the image: ‘T. Oloff & Co. / Factorei / Lome’; a very strong print with excellent clarity, in good condition; the mount is clean and stable. The Togoland Protectorate (Schutzgebiet Togo) was administered by …
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# 46461
[PAAR, Theodor, attributed]
Portraits of Himalayan types, including Nepalese and Tibetan, taken in Darjeeling, 1890s.
Group of 5 (five) albumen print photographs removed from the same late nineteenth-century album, all attributed to the Darjeeling photographer Theodor Paar. I. The Witch at Ghoom. [Caption on mount]. 200 x 150 mm, mounted recto of card mount; very good condition. The subject is believed to have been a Bhutia woman from Tibet, living …
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# 46463
A.Y.P. EXPO. CO.
Souvenir folding card … Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, Seatte, Washington, June 1st to October 16th 1909.
[Seattle] : AYP Expo. Co., 1909. Colour-illustrated wallet, 105 x 155 mm, containing a concertina foldout with 24 postcard-size chromolithographed photographic images of buildings and First Nations groups from the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition held in 1909 in Seattle; the wallet has a few small marks, contents in fine condition.
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# 46296
DAVIES, Alan; STANBURY, Peter
The mechanical eye in Australia: photography, 1841-1900.
Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985. First printing. Quarto (290 x 220 mm), publisher’s black cloth in dust jacket (scattered foxing to inside of jacket); illustrated endpapers, 270 pp, profusely illustrated; contents clean throughout; a very good copy of the most useful reference work on Australian colonial photography yet published, now very scarce.
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# 46145
[Photographer unknown]
Studio portrait of Samoan London Missionary Society pastor and tutor Saanga and his family, (Apia?) 1906.
Gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 185 x 135 mm (mount); original studio mount (without photographer’s imprint); verso with Saanga’s own inscription in ink identifying the sitters as Saanga, Madeline, Freddy, Sose, Rarotonga, Rita, Edward, and beneath this ‘With Saanga’s kind regards. June 12 ’06‘; a slightly later ownership inscription in pencil at the top …
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# 46142
WALTER, Charles (Carl) (1831-1907) (attributed)
Two stereoscopic views taken in Samoa, 1875.
Two stereoscopic albumen print photographs, each image approximately 80 x 80 mm (square format), on original black card mounts, 85 x 176 mm, versos blank; the prints are a little pale, but are otherwise in good condition. This pair of Samoan stereoviews came as part of a small group of stereographic photographs by German-born Victorian …
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# 45551
DAVIS, John
Portrait of Wellington Ngu (later Second Crown Prince of Tonga) in military uniform, c.1878.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 106 x 64 mm; verso with the back mark of ‘J. DAVIS, PHOTOGRAPHER, 21 Botany Street, near Oxford Street, SYDNEY. View of Friendly and Navigators Islands.’; a superb print with excellent tonal range; [TOGETHER WITH] another carte de visite in identical format (but for some reason without Davis’ …