Photographs - Ethnography

  • "Queen Mary, Ballarat".

    # 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 …

  • View of part of the Moonta copper mines, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, c.1882.

    # 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 …

  • Studio portrait of Turrbal or Jagera men and women. Brisbane, c.1870.

    # 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 …

  • "Aboriginal and camp on Wimmera River".

    # 46906

    [Photographer and publisher unknown]

    “Aboriginal and camp on Wimmera River”.

    [Title from printed caption in image]. [Melbourne, Vic.? : s.n., c.1910]. Chromolithographic postcard, 87 x 137 mm; mailed from Flemington, Melbourne to the USA in December 1912; very light corner wear, otherwise fine condition. A very scarce postcard documenting an Aboriginal fringe dweller’s camp in northwest Victoria in the early years of the twentieth century. …

  • Bundjalung family at Lawrence, near Maclean on the Clarence River, New South Wales, c.1905.

    # 46900

    KERRY, Charles (1857-1928)

    Bundjalung family at Lawrence, near Maclean on the Clarence River, New South Wales, c.1905.

    Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph printed on postcard stock, 85 x 136 mm; hand-written caption and imprint in the negative: ‘Aboriginal Camp, Lawrence / Kerry 3411’; verso with Kodak Austral box, uninscribed and not mailed; the image has excellent clarity; fine condition. One of Charles Kerry’s lesser-known photographs of Aboriginal people, but a particularly valuable …

  • Promotional photograph of Aboriginal musician Fred Little, younger brother of renowned Yorta Yorta singer-songwriter Jimmy Little.

    # 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.    

  • Adnyamathanha group, Nepabunna Mission, northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia, c.1931.

    # 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 …

  • "Group of Black Trackers".

    # 46904

    KERRY, Charles (1857-1928)

    “Group of Black Trackers”.

    [Title from printed caption in image]. Sydney, NSW : Kerry & Co., [c.1904]. Lithographic postcard, 87 x 137 mm; verso with undivided back (which means the card was published before 1905); uninscribed and not mailed; in fine condition.

  • "Native wurley". South Australia, c.1890.

    # 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.  

  • "Group of Aborigines, Lake Alexandrina" (1862).

    # 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 …

  • View inside the trading post of Oloff & Co. at Lome, Togoland Protectorate, West Africa, c.1890.

    # 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 …

  • Portraits of Himalayan types, including Nepalese and Tibetan, taken in Darjeeling, 1890s.

    # 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 …

  • Souvenir folding card ... Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, Seatte, Washington, June 1st to October 16th 1909.

    # 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.

  • The mechanical eye in Australia: photography, 1841-1900.

    # 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.

  • Studio portrait of Samoan London Missionary Society pastor and tutor Saanga and his family, (Apia?) 1906.

    # 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 …

  • Two stereoscopic views taken in Samoa, 1875.

    # 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 …